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Old November 5th, 2005, 03:32 PM
Rodney
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Default I need to know (from people who fish with live worms or crickets)

If you don't, and your kids or grand kids don't use live worms or
crickets, this will not interest you, just move on to the post

Guys I need your help, as most of you know, I design terminal tackle for
a living. I'm very selective on what new tackle I submit to
manufacturers, first it's got to work,, and work better than anything
currently on the market, I find this out by extensive testing, or course
then it has to be manufactured for a price the consumer will accept,
finally it has to have a market, it must do something that the fishermen
want done. After I prove all of this, I take it to the manufacturers for
licensing.

Here is the input I need from y'all, does this have a market, would you
buy such a thing if it was at your local tackle shop ? I am not trying
to sell y'all anything here, and I will never offer them for sell from
my web site. I just need to know if such a product is wanted by fishermen.

The way I ask this, is I tell you what it does and how much it should
retail for.

Some of you will have no use for it what so ever, because you do not
fish this way, If you use worms or crickets, this may be of interest to you.


There are billions of worms and crickets sold each year to pan
fishermen, actually more people pan fish than any other type of fishing.

There is one problem that has never been solved using worms and cricket
for bait, that is the ease of fish removing them from the hook, kids
loose more bait than adults due to them not setting the hook before the
bait is lost. In the past, hook companies have tried to solve this
problem by adding barbs on the shaft of a hook, this has helped a little
but very little.

I started the 2005 season on a quest to solve this problem, in a cheap
but effective way, and one that fishermen could instantly understand how
it works.

To refresh your memory, pan fish, especially bream, suck the cricket or
worm off the end of the hook, they slide it down the shaft, and around
the bend. I sought a way to keep this from happening, and found a
solution, a very effective solution. Unfortunately, not one that could
be bent into the hook it's self, the bodies of crickets and worms were
to fragile for a truly effective means, using just a specialty bent
hook. This is an add on, on to the hook



I tested this on both large and small blue gills, with unheard of
results, I caught as many as 10 large blue gills on a single cricket, or
section of night crawler worm, the baits were mutilated after a few
fish, but they were still on the hook. Other fish continued to hit them
the average was 5 fish per
cricket, 8 per worm section (pinched off 1 inch sections).

I then tested it along the shore on little 3 and 4 inch blue gills, (an
over sized number 4 hook was used) I was using a float, and just wanted
to see how many times the float could go down, before they finally
"tore" the cricket off, this averaged between 10 and 20 hard bites (the
float going completely under) before they managed to bust the cricket up
so bad they refused to hit it again. This would greatly increase the
number of fish caught by kids who miss bites.

These will retail for around 10 cents a piece, or 10 for a dollar, they
add less than 3 sec's. time to baiting the hook, and so simple to use,
7 year olds that bait their own hooks, have had no problems with doing
it right, after only being shown how once. It in no way interferes with
setting the hook

Is there a market for a cricket and worm, dead bolt lock ?

Locks don't stop thieves, they only slow them down :-)
--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com
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Old November 6th, 2005, 09:59 PM
PNB
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Default I need to know (from people who fish with live worms or crickets)

Sounds good to me!
Good Luck!
"Rodney" wrote in message
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If you don't, and your kids or grand kids don't use live worms or
crickets, this will not interest you, just move on to the post

Guys I need your help, as most of you know, I design terminal tackle for a
living. I'm very selective on what new tackle I submit to manufacturers,
first it's got to work,, and work better than anything currently on the
market, I find this out by extensive testing, or course then it has to be
manufactured for a price the consumer will accept, finally it has to have
a market, it must do something that the fishermen want done. After I prove
all of this, I take it to the manufacturers for licensing.

Here is the input I need from y'all, does this have a market, would you
buy such a thing if it was at your local tackle shop ? I am not trying to
sell y'all anything here, and I will never offer them for sell from my web
site. I just need to know if such a product is wanted by fishermen.

The way I ask this, is I tell you what it does and how much it should
retail for.

Some of you will have no use for it what so ever, because you do not fish
this way, If you use worms or crickets, this may be of interest to you.


There are billions of worms and crickets sold each year to pan
fishermen, actually more people pan fish than any other type of fishing.

There is one problem that has never been solved using worms and cricket
for bait, that is the ease of fish removing them from the hook, kids
loose more bait than adults due to them not setting the hook before the
bait is lost. In the past, hook companies have tried to solve this
problem by adding barbs on the shaft of a hook, this has helped a little
but very little.

I started the 2005 season on a quest to solve this problem, in a cheap
but effective way, and one that fishermen could instantly understand how
it works.

To refresh your memory, pan fish, especially bream, suck the cricket or
worm off the end of the hook, they slide it down the shaft, and around
the bend. I sought a way to keep this from happening, and found a
solution, a very effective solution. Unfortunately, not one that could
be bent into the hook it's self, the bodies of crickets and worms were
to fragile for a truly effective means, using just a specialty bent hook.
This is an add on, on to the hook



I tested this on both large and small blue gills, with unheard of
results, I caught as many as 10 large blue gills on a single cricket, or
section of night crawler worm, the baits were mutilated after a few
fish, but they were still on the hook. Other fish continued to hit them
the average was 5 fish per
cricket, 8 per worm section (pinched off 1 inch sections).

I then tested it along the shore on little 3 and 4 inch blue gills, (an
over sized number 4 hook was used) I was using a float, and just wanted
to see how many times the float could go down, before they finally
"tore" the cricket off, this averaged between 10 and 20 hard bites (the
float going completely under) before they managed to bust the cricket up
so bad they refused to hit it again. This would greatly increase the
number of fish caught by kids who miss bites.

These will retail for around 10 cents a piece, or 10 for a dollar, they
add less than 3 sec's. time to baiting the hook, and so simple to use, 7
year olds that bait their own hooks, have had no problems with doing it
right, after only being shown how once. It in no way interferes with
setting the hook

Is there a market for a cricket and worm, dead bolt lock ?

Locks don't stop thieves, they only slow them down :-)
--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com



 




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