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Trotline question?
How do you keep your Premade Lines and Hooks from getting all tangled up when your transporting them to and from the location you intend to set. This is probably applicable to Limb lines, and/or bank lines but mine is for trot-lines. It's always a darn nightmare untangling them when I go to start clipping them to the line, so I need a better system.
I have tried hooking the hooks in styrofoam but then the snaps just get all tangled up. I have tried using a cardboard box and hooking the hooks in the top of the box and letting the line dangle down inside but then the snaps get all tangled up too. It's like I need a way to hook the hook on something and somewhere to hook the snap as well.
Open to suggestions, and thanks for any input.
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I've just always used a Bucket. If you're lines are too long and tangling, get a 6.5 or 7 gal bucket tall enough. If you can't find one of those a trash can works too
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that was what the cardboard box was for, hook them in the top and let them dangle down inside the box but they still get tangled up when your moving the box around.
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Hang em on the outside and use a big rubber band, keeps them from moving around. If hanging on the inside stick a pool noodle in there
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Rubber Band on the outside - Im gonna try that, thanks
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I use a pool noodle and wrap it around the pool noodles. I put however many hooks my trotlines have on them on each noddle.
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I actually came up with a good idea. 5 gallon bucket with a bungee cord around the top of it, on the outside of the bucket, though inside the groove at the top so it doesn't slide up and down. run the hook through the swivel then run the u-turn portion of the hook underneath the bungee cord. no need for a second bungee cord on the bottom since nothing hangs down neither inside or out.
Works like a champ. i threw the bucket in the back of my truck and drove for 2 hours pulled it out and not a single tangle.
Like this - Don't knock my MS Paint skills :)
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Originally Posted by
cricket george
Sounds resonable to me
I hang my hooks on the inside of a 5 gallon bucket that has my anchor weights. For the trotline line itself i buy a cheap extension cord reel which makes setting it and recovery it very easy.
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We have always wrapped them around a cardboard box.
