Mako 22
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Thanks for sharing your secrets Mako. But why the funky swivel? Why not just clip right to your braid or wire?
The swivel rotates 360 degrees in the horizontal plane. And 360 degrees in the axis of the release clip likne. Puts no stress or clamping force on the braid or wire.
Old Commercial trolling secret from a long, long time ago. The boat I fished on clipped on a 6 foot length of 100 pound leader to this swivel, and had a large spoon on the other end. Sort of like a "Cheater". Remember on a commercial boat we did not use release clips, everything is solid. So we were running the cheater spoon 6 feet behind and 5 feet above the cannon ball. Caught a lot of big kings on this setup and halibut also. I just scaled the concept down a little for my downrigger fishing, works very well.

Made from large three ways:

If you are using markers on your downrigger braid or wire, and use one of those bent wire commercial style snaps to snap on the release arrangement, guess what, you eventually will lose a cannon ball.