Tuna Cord Tragedy

[Squire]

anyone have a line on the tuna chord crimp pliers that make the nice round crimp

I believe I picked mine up at Harbour Chandler along with enough crimps, swivels etc to make several custom rigs at home.

 

[Capt_Ed]

Make a loop long enough so the doubled part becomes your stopper and whatever knot you use stays outside the pulley. Or use a big circle of cord like you used to use to dry up the seine. I use braided seine twine - can't afford tuna stuff.

Great memories drying up big herring sets, thx for the reminder. What a great life we had then

 

[SpringVelocity]

I still just use the two loop system. Have no swivels etc. I am cheap lolol!

One knot is autostop and other is big enough to loop over and attach cannonball. Same as some others posted above.

Just a piece of tuna chord with two overhand loops. Tuna chord attached by a Palomar knot to the braid I use.

Every so often I retie to braid.

 

[casper5280]

the plastic clip attached to the swivel as pictured above can open up very easily when hung up. the rubber snubber is another weak point that will fail. these also create more blowback. i like the stopper and clip function though.

my set up, clip attached directly to the finned ball. one 8' piece of tuna chord in a 4' loop. 80lb swivel that is the stop.
double figure 8 loop for swivel to braid. loop is passed through swivel and ball giving a double hinge point for strength.
KEEP brake adjusted for slow stopping and if you get hung up the brake releases enough to not snap off anything.
replace every 20 or so trips at the cost of 6$.

That's also what I have scaled it back to

 

[mitch184]

Cable, Cannon Eliminator, Rudder flasher (w/ 5' release), Ball. For running flashers.

Cable, Cannon Eliminator, 4' Tuna Cord (w/ 3' release on top), Ball (w/ 5' leash for dummy flasher). For running dummy flashers.

Gone away from everything else and never lost a ball this season running 3 downriggers. I do run Cannon's though.