Lure retriever?

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:33:32 -0700, "SHRED©"
wrote:

I have one of those that you send down the line. It is a heavy fish looking
thing, green and yellow, about 6" long, with 2 rings the line slides
through. Got it from BP or Cabelas a while ago.

I have had OK success with it but was wondering what others use to unsnag
those crankbaits?

The best commercial lure retirever I ever used was what they
called a "Pocket Rocket" which was basically a large paper clip that
is in a large chunk of lead. Great idea and I can't remember it not
getting my crank back...

After running out of pocket rockets, I made up some homemade lure
retrievers (that haven't failed me yet - knock on wood) just by using
these three things:
1) Large bell sinker (1 or 1 1/2 oz I believe)
2) Large Snap Swivel
3) Few inches of heavy line

Here's what you do:

1. With heavy line, just tie a strong knot directly to the closed
end of the snap swivel.
2. Tie the other end of the line to the large bell sinker
(leaving as little line between the bell sinker and snap swivel as
possible - to avoid possible tangles).
3. Open the snap swivel, put your line in the snap swivel, close
the snap swivel and drop your homemade lure retriever over your hung
lure.
4. After the homemade lure retriever reaches your lure, reel in
your lure! (if your lure is still hung, you need to make sure that
the lure retriever is on the lure and you may need to shake it a few
times or another homemade lure retriever)

* Keep in mind that a heavier bell sinker might damage your
lure...

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Rob, I don't know if Burke is still alive or not, but somebody, somewhere is
going to notice their absence and realize their problem, which IMO is
eventually always terminal. Many products of all kinds unfortunately die
because of exposure to accountants or MBA's in the design stage. Burke was
unfortunately designed to reach a certain price point rather than being
allowed to "Be all they could be." To e explain, Burke's soft lure bodies,
as you know, lived in contact with the hook points to achieve their great
weedless and snagless capabilities. The cost of this great design asset was
that the hook was almost always partially blocked by that soft lure body
during the hookset, and herein lie their problem.

Anyone with a tiny ounce of common sense would instantly realize that this
lure required really good, sharp hooks to actually catch fish. Instead, the
powers that be at Burke bought the cheapest, dullest, lousiest hooks that
you could ever imagine. Some stupid beancounter saved a few cents on them,
and probably have himself a bonus for doing it. Trying to sharpen a banana
was easier than getting a good point on these pieces of crap, just like the
garbage used on a Johnson spoon. Therefore, the general public learned to
avoid those Burke Lures because they seldom caught fish out of the box.

If we ever get caught up with all the things we have going on, we just might
take a look at them! That would be fun.

Thanks,
--
Bob Rickard
(AKA Dr. Spinnerbait)
www.secretweaponlures.com
--------------------------=x O')))

"Rob Storm" wrote in message
...
Hey Bob -- I've got an idea for a crankbait line. Remember the old "Flex
Plugs" (I think that's the right name) marketed by Burke. They were made
of
tough but soft plastic and they worked like regular plugs but a bass would
hold
on to them much longer than a regular hard plastic bait. My favorites
were the
Big Dig (dug deep like a Hellbender) and a top water that looked rather
like a
Heddon Chugger.

I've never figured out why Burke took those lures off the market. The
only
place I can get them now is on eBay and they're getting harder to come by
all
the time. I'd love to see someone with your creative skills take the idea
and
come out with a similar line of lures. You'd probably figure out a way to
make
them shake, rattle, and roll and catch even more fish than the Burke lures
did.



Family, Friends, Fishing,
Rob Storm
http://stormsrestaurants.com

Sounds a lot like the bluegill or trout plugs by Castaic.



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"Rob Storm" wrote in message
...
Hey Bob -- I've got an idea for a crankbait line. Remember the old "Flex
Plugs" (I think that's the right name) marketed by Burke. They were made
of
tough but soft plastic and they worked like regular plugs but a bass would
hold
on to them much longer than a regular hard plastic bait. My favorites
were the
Big Dig (dug deep like a Hellbender) and a top water that looked rather
like a
Heddon Chugger.

I've never figured out why Burke took those lures off the market. The
only
place I can get them now is on eBay and they're getting harder to come by
all
the time. I'd love to see someone with your creative skills take the idea
and
come out with a similar line of lures. You'd probably figure out a way to
make
them shake, rattle, and roll and catch even more fish than the Burke lures
did.



Family, Friends, Fishing,
Rob Storm
http://stormsrestaurants.com

Sounds a lot like the bluegill or trout plugs by Castaic.



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"Rob Storm" wrote in message
...
Hey Bob -- I've got an idea for a crankbait line. Remember the old "Flex
Plugs" (I think that's the right name) marketed by Burke. They were made
of
tough but soft plastic and they worked like regular plugs but a bass would
hold
on to them much longer than a regular hard plastic bait. My favorites
were the
Big Dig (dug deep like a Hellbender) and a top water that looked rather
like a
Heddon Chugger.

I've never figured out why Burke took those lures off the market. The
only
place I can get them now is on eBay and they're getting harder to come by
all
the time. I'd love to see someone with your creative skills take the idea
and
come out with a similar line of lures. You'd probably figure out a way to
make
them shake, rattle, and roll and catch even more fish than the Burke lures
did.



Family, Friends, Fishing,
Rob Storm
http://stormsrestaurants.com

are those telescopic retrievers a commercial product or something jerry- (not
barton lol) rigged.

Bob, that's not the crankbait (flex-o-plug) that' had the hooks laying
against the foam for weedlessness. That was the Doug Hannon weedless baits
(A frog, an injured minnow, and a snakehead that you rigged with a plastic
worm) also made by Burke. The flex-o-plugs (or maybe it was just
flex-plugs) were actual crankbaits with free swinging hooks.

FWIW, part of Burke went with Johnson Fishing, and part of it (the soft
plastic lures -- little fishy and all the bugs they used to make) went to
Creme/Knight.


RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing

Bob, that's not the crankbait (flex-o-plug) that' had the hooks laying
against the foam for weedlessness. That was the Doug Hannon weedless baits
(A frog, an injured minnow, and a snakehead that you rigged with a plastic
worm) also made by Burke. The flex-o-plugs (or maybe it was just
flex-plugs) were actual crankbaits with free swinging hooks.

FWIW, part of Burke went with Johnson Fishing, and part of it (the soft
plastic lures -- little fishy and all the bugs they used to make) went to
Creme/Knight.


RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing

Dwayne E. Cooper wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:33:32 -0700, "SHRED©"
wrote:

I have one of those that you send down the line. It is a heavy fish looking
thing, green and yellow, about 6" long, with 2 rings the line slides
through. Got it from BP or Cabelas a while ago.

I have had OK success with it but was wondering what others use to unsnag
those crankbaits?

The best commercial lure retirever I ever used was what they
called a "Pocket Rocket" which was basically a large paper clip that
is in a large chunk of lead. Great idea and I can't remember it not
getting my crank back...

After running out of pocket rockets, I made up some homemade lure
retrievers (that haven't failed me yet - knock on wood) just by using
these three things:


1) Large bell sinker (1 or 1 1/2 oz I believe)
2) Large Snap Swivel
3) Few inches of heavy line

Here's what you do:

1. With heavy line, just tie a strong knot directly to the closed
end of the snap swivel.
2. Tie the other end of the line to the large bell sinker
(leaving as little line between the bell sinker and snap swivel as
possible - to avoid possible tangles).
3. Open the snap swivel, put your line in the snap swivel, close
the snap swivel and drop your homemade lure retriever over your hung
lure.
4. After the homemade lure retriever reaches your lure, reel in
your lure! (if your lure is still hung, you need to make sure that
the lure retriever is on the lure and you may need to shake it a few
times or another homemade lure retriever)

* Keep in mind that a heavier bell sinker might damage your
lure...

I will keep it short. The very best lure retriever, a lure retriever
amongst lure retrievers is the StrikeBack Lure Retriever. It is a pole
type lure retriever with a unique line attachment coil, with attaches
in an instant, no twisting of wrist, just one, single handed action.
The line stays attached and does not come off during the retrieve. The
lure comes off with a nudge, does not damage hooks like other
retrievers which pull lures off snags. It works in strong currents
because of its thin profile less than 1/2 an inch in diameter od
fibreglass rod. Unique coil, automatically attaches to submerged line
you cannot see so you can recover you snagged trophy bass. With braid
snagged fish are more common.
On one fishing trip I averaged 20 retrieves a day for 15 days. 300
lures retrieved. Not one lost.
I could go on but check out the website of
their online store and decide for yourself
http://www.strikebacktackle.com.au

Dwayne E. Cooper wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:33:32 -0700, "SHRED©"
wrote:

I have one of those that you send down the line. It is a heavy fish looking
thing, green and yellow, about 6" long, with 2 rings the line slides
through. Got it from BP or Cabelas a while ago.

I have had OK success with it but was wondering what others use to unsnag
those crankbaits?

The best commercial lure retirever I ever used was what they
called a "Pocket Rocket" which was basically a large paper clip that
is in a large chunk of lead. Great idea and I can't remember it not
getting my crank back...

After running out of pocket rockets, I made up some homemade lure
retrievers (that haven't failed me yet - knock on wood) just by using
these three things:

1) Large bell sinker (1 or 1 1/2 oz I believe)
2) Large Snap Swivel
3) Few inches of heavy line

Here's what you do:

1. With heavy line, just tie a strong knot directly to the closed
end of the snap swivel.
2. Tie the other end of the line to the large bell sinker
(leaving as little line between the bell sinker and snap swivel as
possible - to avoid possible tangles).
3. Open the snap swivel, put your line in the snap swivel, close
the snap swivel and drop your homemade lure retriever over your hung
lure.
4. After the homemade lure retriever reaches your lure, reel in
your lure! (if your lure is still hung, you need to make sure that
the lure retriever is on the lure and you may need to shake it a few
times or another homemade lure retriever)

* Keep in mind that a heavier bell sinker might damage your
lure...



I will keep it short. The very best lure retriever, a lure retriever
amongst lure retrievers is the StrikeBack Lure Retriever. It is a pole
type lure retriever with a unique line attachment coil, with attaches
in an instant, no twisting of wrist, just one, single handed action.
The line stays attached and does not come off during the retrieve. The
lure comes off with a nudge, does not damage hooks like other
retrievers which pull lures off snags. It works in strong currents
because of its thin profile less than 1/2 an inch in diameter od
fibreglass rod. Unique coil, automatically attaches to submerged line
you cannot see so you can recover you snagged trophy bass. With braid
snagged fish are more common. I could go on but visit their online
store and decide for yourself
http://www.strikebacktackle.com.au

Dwayne E. Cooper wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:33:32 -0700, "SHRED©"
wrote:

I have one of those that you send down the line. It is a heavy fish looking
thing, green and yellow, about 6" long, with 2 rings the line slides
through. Got it from BP or Cabelas a while ago.

I have had OK success with it but was wondering what others use to unsnag
those crankbaits?

The best commercial lure retirever I ever used was what they
called a "Pocket Rocket" which was basically a large paper clip that
is in a large chunk of lead. Great idea and I can't remember it not
getting my crank back...

After running out of pocket rockets, I made up some homemade lure
retrievers (that haven't failed me yet - knock on wood) just by using
these three things:

1) Large bell sinker (1 or 1 1/2 oz I believe)
2) Large Snap Swivel
3) Few inches of heavy line

Here's what you do:

1. With heavy line, just tie a strong knot directly to the closed
end of the snap swivel.
2. Tie the other end of the line to the large bell sinker
(leaving as little line between the bell sinker and snap swivel as
possible - to avoid possible tangles).
3. Open the snap swivel, put your line in the snap swivel, close
the snap swivel and drop your homemade lure retriever over your hung
lure.
4. After the homemade lure retriever reaches your lure, reel in
your lure! (if your lure is still hung, you need to make sure that
the lure retriever is on the lure and you may need to shake it a few
times or another homemade lure retriever)

* Keep in mind that a heavier bell sinker might damage your
lure...



I will keep it short. The very best lure retriever, a lure retriever
amongst lure retrievers is the StrikeBack Lure Retriever. It is a pole
type lure retriever with a unique line attachment coil, with attaches
in an instant, no twisting of wrist, just one, single handed action.
The line stays attached and does not come off during the retrieve. The
lure comes off with a nudge, does not damage hooks like other
retrievers which pull lures off snags. It works in strong currents
because of its thin profile less than 1/2 an inch in diameter od
fibreglass rod. Unique coil, automatically attaches to submerged line
you cannot see so you can recover you snagged trophy bass. With braid
snagged fish are more common. I could go on but visit their online
store and decide for yourself
http://www.strikebacktackle.com.au