Gord Schultz

 In Sheldon’s blog he wrote about the best way to open you Gulp Alive containers so it doesn’t leak all over the place. This got me thinking that there are a bunch of things we have figured out to make life easier while we are out fishing. What better place to share some of these ideas then here?

My first simple idea is for your bottom bouncers. No I’m not going to show you a bottom bouncer bag or even some substitute that you can use for a bouncer bag. Instead one of the issues I used to have was when I was running from spot to spot or just storing my bouncer rods in the rod locker with the bouncer still attached. Sure I used to just cut the bouncer off and retie the next day, but I found out the hard way when fishing a tournament that spending time re tying isn’t the best way to spend my time especially when the walleye are hitting.

We tried Velcro straps which wasn’t too bad until the straps blew out of the boat or just went missing and then it hits us. We simply took the bouncer and wrapped it around the reel. This allowed us to store our rods in the locker with the bouncers still attached or we could lay the rods down in the boat and not worry about the bouncer smacking the rod or anything else in the boat.

Now please don’t the vision in your head of us bending the wire in a bunch of different ways to make it stick, instead let me share some photo’s with you to illustrate what I’m talking about.