Of course, you can buy a detachment in a store; for a real fisherman, the issue of buying gear is no longer a problem, but making it yourself is much better. For example, I made the first cut when I couldn’t find a decent-weight specimen in the store.
The fact is that for a jig you need a detachment of about one or two ounces in weight, for small spinners up to three, but for balancers and solid pike spinners, and even on river snags with a current, even a four-ounce one is not enough.
To make the cut we will need:
Easy release
I also use this plumb line model when summer fishing from a boat. It can be used for vertical trolling, spinning and float fishing. This type of hook can be used when fishing from steep banks, piers or pontoons.
For shallow places (up to two meters), it is advisable to use a cutter bent from thick wire.
How to use the release
If while fishing you suddenly discover that the bait is stuck in any obstacle, you need to perform a number of actions:
- obtain and prepare the cut for use;
- insert the fishing line into the slot at one end of the device (in this case, the fishing line tied to the other end must be completely unwound);
- push the pin, thus fixing the fishing line;
- pull the fishing rod and then place the cut in the fishing area;
- Now you need to tap the bait with the weight exactly until the tackle is released.
This is a common scenario for cases with large obstacles such as rocks or snags. A different approach should be used if the tackle becomes entangled in a lump of old fishing line, mud or similar soft debris. In this case, it is more logical to immediately pull out both the bait and what it is stuck in.
To increase the convenience of using the release, a special reel is often attached to this device. And the reel is already mounted on a separate handle.
Every fisherman has to deal with snags on valuable gear from time to time. It is important to know how to make an effective release with your own hands. Acquiring such a skill will allow you to forget for a long time about buying new baits to replace those lost during fishing.
Light plumb. Scheme of work
When fishing, you can tie it with electrical tape to a stick cut out on the shore. However, you can carry with you an old summer telescopic fishing rod without thin legs, then the depth of the cut will correspond to the length of the remaining legs of the rod. The work diagram is shown in the picture.
Using a homemade cutter not only helps you save money spent on purchasing spinners and balancers. Unhooking is the salvation of your favorite, reliable, proven baits over the years, the loss of which cannot be compensated for by any money.
Polyakov Yuri Nikolaevich - Specially for the SamodelkiFish website, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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How to make a release for ice fishing
If you have basic skills, making a release for winter fishing at home is not particularly difficult. All you need to create it is a sliding weight with a through hole in the middle, a piece of wire, as well as pliers and round nose pliers. At the same time, it is important to clarify that in branded stores the price of an ordinary olive weight can be quite high despite the simplicity and elementary nature of this device, so you should not pay attention to expensive, beautifully painted branded weights - the most ordinary lead sinker purchased on the market will not serve you at all worse than the expensive one, because the operating principle of one and the other is exactly the same. It is much more important to make a high-quality and easy-to-use hook, and then it will help out the fisherman more than once even with the most difficult and unpleasant hooks.
So, at the beginning of making our own cut for winter fishing, we need to thread a piece of prepared wire through a through hole in the sinker. When the end of the wire comes out in the narrow side of the olive, you need to use pliers to form a small loop from it, through which the finished release will be attached to the fishing line or cord. After bending the loop and biting off the excess part, pull the wire past the other end, thereby pressing the edge of the loop into the soft lead at the sharp end of the sinker.
Next, at the end of the wire coming out of the blunt end of the sinker, we form a loop of the diameter we need, but in such a way that the bent loop can open when its base comes out of the hole in the weight, and close when we push it back into the through hole in the sinker. Thus, by moving the wire, we can easily pass the line through the loop, and then, pushing the end of the loop back into the sinker and fixing it there with a little force, prevent the line from jumping out when immersed in water. All that remains is to attach the resulting detachment with a narrow loop to the cord on the winter fishing rod, and our bait rescue device is ready for use.
Fishing release tube size
I give the dimensions of my homemade heavy detachment from a lead-filled chrome-plated brass tube with a pin made of elastic steel wire and a ring-shaped striker, used in summer and winter fishing for knocking out spinners, jigs, balancers, and wobblers.
The outer diameter of the tube is 16 mm, length is 90 mm, tube wall thickness is 1 mm. A couple of straight pieces of tube according to the suggested dimensions can be cut from a damaged bathroom water mixer horn.
Tube size - its length and internal diameter are adjusted to the length of the pin or vice versa. Although the dimensions of your release may be completely different.
The size of a homemade pin bent from wire inserted into the tube exceeds the length of the release tube by 12-15 mm. The narrow bend of the pin protrudes from the cavity of the tube by this amount, which is quite enough to tie a fastening knot here.
The dimensions and shape of a homemade release pin ending in a round firing pin ring can be found below in the text.
Homemade components for the release assembly are shown in the photo below in the text. Visually, you can estimate the dimensions of the universal cutter from the length of the match in the photo under the title of the article.
The size of the cut is not critical and depends on the convenience of catching fish with a spoon, jig, wobbler or balancer during winter or summer fishing in your pond. But to make a release, it is better to first select (find) a tube and bend the pin in relation to the dimensions of the tubular cavity.
Based on the fishing conditions in a particular body of water, we select the shape and size of the striker of a homemade fishing hook, made on the basis of a thin-walled tube.
On the following pages of the topic with fishermen who intend to use homemade fishing hooks when knocking out baits in the current, we will fill the hook tubes with lead.
Unhooking jig from a tube
A self-made compact detachment from a tube with a round striker (see photo) is used for knocking sunken trees out of branches when fishing for jigs and other small-sized baits. And not only.
If you make a detachment from a short, but thick-walled tube with a round-shaped striker, which has considerable weight, then you will save during winter fishing, in addition to the scarce jig, a spoon or a balancer, and when fishing in the summer from a boat - an expensive wobbler. Everything will depend on the parameters of the tube you find.
For fishermen who are not keen on trolling with heavy spoons in the current, I suggest making a device for unhooking jigs with your own hands. The dimensions of one of my similar homemade devices can be estimated in the photo by the length of the match.
I will repeat this because it is important. Despite its small size, a homemade release may not have such a low weight if you find a thick-walled tube for the fishing device. So with a ready-made homemade unhooking, you can unhook not only a jig, but also a labor-intensive wobbler to make with your own hands or an expensive lure worthy of attention.
If the manufacture of a heavy device intended for unhooking any hook tackle requires working with molten lead, then here we will make do with the simplest safe technology.
A release for rescuing jigs caught on snags can be made with your own hands in 5-7 minutes if you have a suitable tube and steel spring wire for the pin striker.
Why do you need a release when fishing?
A tackle snag can happen while fishing in winter or summer anywhere in a body of water. When fishing from a boat, floats can indicate a problem area. Various factors influence the solution to the problem of saving gear from a cliff in winter.
Unfavorable factors:
- fishing line for winter fishing is thinner than summer fishing line;
- poor maneuverability;
- minimum hole dimensions.
Favorable conditions:
- the angler being located directly or at a slight angle above the hook.
The line release design allows you to save the jig.
Do-it-yourself unhooking
This device is an indispensable assistant for both experienced fishermen and beginners. Store windows are overflowing with different types of cuts for every taste and pocket. But at the same time, it will not be difficult, and maybe even the craft of creating a product yourself will be fascinating and educational.
So, we make cut-offs for spinners and wobblers with our own hands, setting aside some free time and a good mood for this.
To make the simplest release you will need the following material:
- A meter of steel wire 0.5 mm thick;
- Tools: pliers, wire cutters, drill with drill bits and file;
- Winding rings – 5 pcs.;
- Tight carabiner;
- Welded chain;
- Cord (rope) and black marker;
- 30 cm ruler or tape measure.
The product requires step-by-step implementation.
- The first step is to take a carabiner and mark on it with a marker the points intended for drilling. Which are arranged in the following way: one on top, the rest below. Next, take a drill and drill points in the specified space. Advice! To avoid slipping of the drill, the designated points are carefully processed with a file.
- Second phase. Take the winding rings and attach them to the drilled holes. A cord or rope is tied to the topmost ring, which is necessary for pulling out the bait.
- Third stage. Take the welded chain and, using a marker, divide it into equal sections, about 10 cm each. Tip! If there is no ruler or meter nearby, the chain can be divided into the same distance by using its links in the same number.
- The final stage. Each chain segment is connected to a winding carabiner. Advice! To prevent the chain strips from connecting, a small piece of chain is attached between the chain segments. Then they take steel wire and secure the links with it at the junction of the product.
How does homemade work
Working with a release does not require much skill from the fisherman. The product is attached to the main cord through the carabiner part. It is then slowly lowered along the fishing line towards the stuck bait.
There the carabiner does its job, using tees to secure it, to which metal tentacles cling.
To release the bait, pull the release slightly towards you.
