VOL 8-1 Fishing tip # 7XX Coil Keeper

Here is a super strong safety device you might have a need for.  I make them in various lengths and strengths for specific purposes.   Need a longer or shorter “Kill Switch” lanyard?  Paddle leash for your yak?  How about a safety line for a rod and reel?  These rigs are easy to make, super strong, and doggone convenient.  Fittings on the ends of the coil will vary with the application.

Here is how to make your own.  You’ll need 300-600 # test mono (I used 300# in the photos.) and a short length of ½-5/8” dowel as shown below.  Insert the mono into one of the holes in the dowel and wrap the mono around the dowel as shown below.  Insert the bitter end of the mono thru the second hole and pull tight.

You will need 2 pots big enough to submerge the entire dowel and mono in.  Add about 2” of water into pot one and bring to a boil.  Drop the dowel and mono into the pot and boil for 5 minutes.  Add several inches of cold water to the 2^nd pot and add crushed ice to make it as cold as possible. 

After boiling the mono for 5 minutes, plunge it into the cold water as fast as possible.  After a minute or so, remove the dowel and mono and uncoil.

Install whatever you need on the ends of the coiled leash using leader sleeves.

 

Life is too short to catch little fish.

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If you've never handled it, 600# mono is awesome.  I recently snelled a couple of 20/0 hooks on a piece.

Life is too short to catch little fish.

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Cant wait to BOIL UP SOME LANYARDS !

"Scars are tatoos with a story"

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Joe Cassidy
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This is a quick and fun project.  Used as a rod leash, you can fight the fish without having to remove the safety line.

I've probably made hundreds of these things in the past 40 years.

All of the tips I have in my E-books have been personally tested.  If I remember correctly, my uncle A. V. Walters came up with the mono coil tip.  He made some cool gizmos.  My Dad was very inventive too.  One of these days, I'll have the E-Books ready to go.

Life is too short to catch little fish.

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2152 walkaround 190 merc i/o

NIGHTWOLF

One of these safety lanyards secured to something on the canoe could have prevented his ordeal.

Anytime you are fishing alone, you should take every reasonable safety precaution.  I have 4 grandkids.  I'd like to stay around a while to see how they turn out.  Looks like I will make another lanyard tomorrow. 

A couple of cautions with lanyards:  Be sure to disconnect from it before you try to get out of the boat.  A kill switch lanyard darn near pulled me off the dock a while back.  Use a secure clip but make sure it is one you can un-clip in an emergency should you get entangled.

Sometimes we create traps for ourselves.  Please "Think-through" what you are doing when using these lanyards. 

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Still in Knoxville,TN but working on it.

Thanks for all the info. Lets go fishing! Can't wait to meet more of you folks.             Hal, you owe me a beer!

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I'll try to show another one today. 

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The photo above shows a roll of the straps, a single strap laid out showing the slot and the tapered end, and one attached to a leash. The photo below shows some that I boiled on the stove and 2 that I boiled in the microwave. It seemed to work just as well as the stove and didn't take as long to get the job done.

Here are the type that Pam was referring to except these are the old squiggly phone cords from days gone by!

These velcro loops are very strong and will hold about anything attached to the 'yak during a flipover. It doesn't take a piece of industrial strength velcro to hold a 2 lb. rod and reel, just one of these straps wrapped around the handle of the rod over itself and you are good to go. It has to be wrapped OVER itself and not simply wrapped around from tip to the end of the leash or it may just unroll in a flipover though. I wrapped one of these leashes onto a rigged up fishing rod and laid the tip of the rod down on the carpet. I then yoyo'ed the leash up and down and the velcro strap never came loose or even loosened up at all. They seem to be much stronger and hold much better than what one would need to keep a rod and reel attached to and overturned kayak as long as you use the overhand wrap to attach them to the object.

I experimented with using thin wall PVC tubing to wrap the string around for boiling and that worked only marginally. You had to be very careful taking the rig out of the boiling water to transfer it to the ice water, the PVC becomes very pliable when heated completely through! But it did work. I just had to use a light hand with the tongs when removing the boiled string rig from the hot water.

I also tried .125 diam. string which worked great, I tried the string that had the fluted edges along its length (they say it cuts better than smooth string??), and it also worked well. The only thing I couldn't get to hold a good set, and it may have been because I only boiled it for 12 or 13 minutes, was that huge honkin' red poly string that Sears sells for people who own those string trimmers that use 4 or 5 of the 12" to 18" lengths of large diameter poly string that are cut individually from this roll. It is sort of twisted in a rotini shape and is almost 1/4" in diameter.

I guess there are limits to how large you can make these things. But that's how one learns, eh??

 

Right now, I am working on the Kayak book so I'll play with Velcro with the lanyard.

I have a few pool noodle gizmos for yaks that I want to get right before using them.

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When I needed a line on my old Sea Hornet for wreck shooting, I added a 12' coil to my slide ring and attached the other end to a  shocker which was attached to the eye on the front of my gun gun.  My shafts were always at least a foot longer than the barrel of my gun so the coil slid easily on the shaft.  Rigged this way, there was no tangling and reloading was a snap.  The shaft shot right thru the coil.  I can't prove it but I'd bet there was less resistance with the coiled mono so the spear got there sooner with more retained energy.

I sold my last spear gun a couple of years ago so I can't furnish a photo.  If anybody needs clarification, I will make one of my infamous drawings.  Heck, I'll try to do it with MS DRAW.

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