Flasher Storage And Care Tips

[P52]

Just intersted in the various ways people store their flashers, i have had them in pastic type ammo cam but have notice that their showing chiping from coming in contact with each other, best to be seperated i would think. And do most people wash their flashers after use, as i read that your hands leave a scent and would think thats true.

 

[Lipripper]

I usually throw the ones I am using regularly in the sink of the boat
I am pretty sure the fish don't care if the finish is chipped... My hottest ones would probably surprise you... For instance one is a green glow.... but the back side is missing half of the silver so its just white.... works like a hot dam

A shot of WD on the swivels and and extra swivel on the rod side makes for no line twists

 

[tubbed out]

Bigmeal got some cool flasher bags from somewhere, I think bass pro shop in calgary ? , keeps them separate and tidy

maybe he will read this and fill us in

mine are in a bucket ,but will be getting the bags

 

[Fish-Hunter]

A guy that I know keeps them in a Plastic box with separators between all of them so they do not touch each other. Not mine, they are in a plastic box yes, but they are crammed together in that box, lots are old and scratched/chipped and some of the oldies do the best.

Most of these flashers I am almost convinced that they are more designed to catch a fisherman instead of a fish. The Newest - shiney - Glow - electric chipped, don't seem to do any better than the old beat up hard to tell what the hell it was flashers on most days. It seems that as long as they give a good action to the lure and give off some kind of a flash in the water they will work.

X2 on the WD-40 for the Swivels and double swivel the oldies.

 

[spring time]

got a flasher bag from nikka work awesome. it mesh on one side so I just hose it off and hang to dry

 

[JAC]

I got to of the larger flasher bags from Cabelas there great. There on sale right now... There is another thread from last year showing flasher and or tackle storage. on guy had a plastic bin with wooded dowel that seperate the flashers.

 

[P52]

Link

http://www.sportfishingbc.com/forum/showthread.php?11727-Flasher-Holder&highlight=tackle+storage

 

[searun]

http://www.sportfishingbc.com/forum...ring-Gear-Organization-TIps&highlight=flasher

Try this link, will contain pictures of the flasher box I use. Keeps them neat, clean and undamaged...and best of all, dry. Cheap system, you can buy the box for under $2, and use dowel and plywood as a base.

 

[P52]

Yes thats pretty good and easy, as you know the flashers are not cheap these days. Have you ever expermented with flashers like on the captaindownriggers site were he cuts v notches on the edge to cahnge the action, the one i tried was drill a 1/4 hole near the end and doing that leaves a bubble trail. I tried on a old flasher i had.

 

[searun]

Interesting experiment, did it make a difference?

 

[bigmeal]

Here is what I found at Nanaimo Wholesale Sports. It's a great setup that Amundson has made and it stores away taking up very little space. Hope this helps, oh yah they were reasonably priced as well.

 

[TheBigGuy]

Have you ever expermented with flashers like on the captaindownriggers site were he cuts v notches on the edge to cahnge the action, the one i tried was drill a 1/4 hole near the end and doing that leaves a bubble trail. I tried on a old flasher i had.

I took the tape off both sides of an old chartreuse flasher and drilled two 1/4" holes near the end (as capn dwnriggns suggested trying). It was my hottest flasher by far this summer, go figure.

 

[Lipripper]

I took the tape off both sides of an old chartreuse flasher and drilled two 1/4" holes near the end (as capn dwnriggns suggested trying). It was my hottest flasher by far this summer, go figure.

That sounds close to one of my best flashers.....sans holes. And sans it probably isn't the same one. Mine you cant peel the tape off.... but it is chartreuse and its a pretty much one off.
Lub it dough

 

[TheBigGuy]

That flasher was an old Luhr Jensen Silver Eagle. They were one of my favs back in the day. They no longer make them, they have replaced them with the Coyote flasher. Even with no tape it almost glows a neon yellow in the water. None of my other chartreuse flashers seem to exhibit that almost neon color in the water. It also does what very few other flashers seem to do. When I troll this flasher slowly it hesitates briefly then reverses the direction of it's spin. It will spin in one direction for a bit, then change direction over and over. The fish seem to love this action.

Before any of the old timers bother to ask, it isn't a super hot spot flasher. I haven't seen one of those for ages, they were designed to have this type of action.

 

[Business Time]

Use old socks. Dry's them off, protects them, and free.

 

[the fog ducker]

Fellas

any of you ever have this happen , a reaction between rubber and plastic ? sometimes plastic beads inserted into squirts , over time , the plastic bead
will deform , get gummy , sometimes very difficult to get out , so i deep six them al together , the other , when in short term usage storage on my pre-tieups , if a squirt ( hoochie ) stays in contact with a flasher , it creates a melted damaged spot on the flasher ,at the contact points ? i really notice this mostly when i get home to clean all my gear..

not all the time though , wonder if its certain colors , Glow , UV ,,,?? don't know , haven't really broke it down yet ,

thx in advance

FD

 

[Bassblaster]

FD,

I've seen this a lot as Bass lures are often made of the same "rubber" and "plastic " compounds. There seems to be a chemical reaction between the catalyst from the rubber jigs etc and certain types of plastics. Most tackle manufacturers offer lines of "Worm Proof" boxes or tackle storage systems that are made from plastics that won't react with the rubber lures, but if you happen to throw the wrong tackle in with the rubber lures they will react and melt. They are nutorious for melting the paint off lures like Rapalas or even melting the actual lure bodies on many plastic formed baits. I even had a tackle box that that the worms melted completely through the trays. Very messy. Tackle is expensive enough now a days without having it self-destruct on you.

 

[the fog ducker]

thx blasster

yeah , figured some kinda reaction , again , not all of them , need to break down and find out which products , manufacturers , try to find the manufacturers that dont break-down is ,

fd

 

[Dogbreath]

That's why I like the gum puckies sold for the purpose they're a softer kind of plastic.

OTOH if a hootchie is so old that it's eating beads it's either a killer colour that you should be rerigging or a POS that can safely be put in the second tackle box/used for jigging Rockfish/Lings.