Using rod/reel combo on a rattle reel

[beer batter]

Sometimes it's easier to catch fish on rod/reel combo vs. the rattle reel. I love catching fish on rattle reels, don't get me wrong, but there are advantages to catching a fish on a rod/reel over hand-lining them in on a rattle reel.

I recall a thread a few years ago where someone posted how to thread the line from a rod/reel combo over a rattle reel so that the rattle would go off when a fish strikes, then you could just pick up the rod and close bail, and fight the fish with the rod instead of hand-lining it in.

I'm interested in trying it this season, but can't seem to find the thread. Anyone do this before that can explain the best way to wrap the line around the rattle reel?

[mrfish1991]

I think it could have been me that posted that, or added to a post. In my uncles ice house he has a rattle reel that uses a a buzzer powered by a battery insted of the bells. They look like this

You cut a small slit in the top of one of the ridges

like so...

you set the wing nut really light so the spool on the buzz reel has almost no friction, but at the same time will stay in place. You put the line in the slot you cut and have it at the top of the reel. fish takes the bait and pulls down the line setting off the buzzer and letting you know you have a fish.

[beer batter]

Thanks for posting that mrfish, but that's not what I was thinking about.

If I recall correctly, the person that posted it originally was a long time welder that had lost much of the feeling in his hands so couldn't properly handline a fish on a rattle reel, so he pseudo invented this method of wrapping the line around the rattle reel and using the bells to alert him when the fish bit.

[mskyfshntchr]

Well...That wasn't me, but I have posted on this before.

Here is how I do it:

Take the rattle reel line and cut off all of the hooks. Loop the line thru the middle metal clip of a clothespin. Tie it off. The clothespin now hangs. Take your line and clip it in the clothespin. Set the rattle reel so it will just barely hold the clothespin up. When a fish pulls- down it goes and all you have to do is unclip the clothespin. Very easy to find in the low light or just waking up stage. Reel up the slack, set the hook, land your fish, reset and go back to bed

Works very well. About all you need to tinker with is the amount of line you leave hanging from the reel to the water- you don't want a big minnow setting it off.

Good luck.

[LindellProStaf]

Just put your rod on a Rod Holder and loop your line around the Lindell Ice Rig one revolution. When you get a bite set the hook hand over hand then while reeling in take the line off the Ice Rig. (rattle reel) sounds clumsy but you will get good at it with practice. You are then using your fishing rod.

[bassislife]

That post was from "Love to Hunt" he was in business a few years ago with Sportsmans Fish Houses. Not sure how he did it, But he used Lewandoski Rattle Reels and hooked up some electronic buzzer out of Menards to the rattle reels with his rod and reel.. He said it worked great. I should have paid more attention to it.

[tisosy11]

I have these same rattle reels, but would like to get away from the buzzer...brutal to wake up to. Anyone know where I could purchase just this same rattle reel to use in the same hanger, but with bells/beads?