snap weights ?

[rebs]

when you use snap weights are you guys using the red snaps with the pin in the middle or are the orange ones ok ?

[Crusher23]

I have only used the red ones with the pin. I've never lost one yet to a fish, now, when my kids were younger, there were issues.........nuff said.

Crusher23

[KTroller]

I've only used the red ones as well. Seems to me without the pin, you could lose one pretty easily.

[Heidicke]

Yellow Bird OR-16 for me.

[Juls]

Originally Posted by rebs

when you use snap weights are you guys using the red snaps with the pin in the middle or are the orange ones ok ?

We use the red ones (OR-16's). The OR-19's (orange ones) are the same tension as the red ones with no pin.

The orange ones will work since there isn't anything tugging on the snap-weight itself. They should not come off even without the pin.

Juls

[MSUICEMAN]

gotta be careful.... we've even lost some with the pin when you get it above the waterline and the fish thrashes sometimes they get jostled around and ping, lost... not a whole bunch though.

i have some of the old black releases, thinking about manufacturing my own pins out of brass round stock and gluing them in.

[wimwuen]

Those giant Green Bay Sheephead love to throw the snap weights (even the red ones). I make my own snap weight releases, it's much cheaper than buying them for $4 each. When you run up to 9 rods that starts to add up.

[locomoto]

I use the red ones with the pin. I never lost one until last night. I think it was a large cat that dragged me into some snaggy timber. I lost the fish and the snap weight.

[seaotter]

Years ago I used the red ones on lake erie and lost them. I quit using them until I got some this year. The new ones have the pin the old ones did not. I did not know they had been changed until I asked a bait shop owner how to keep from looseing them. He explained the pin deal to me. That makes a big difference.

[tracker 1]

what I did with my old ones is drill a small hole through the top of the snap right through it. Then cut a piece of nylon off of your string trimmer stick it through the hole and epoxy it . Works great.