Rattle Reels

[huntingislife]

Do most of you mount your rattle reels on the ceiling or the walls? Thanks

[Eric Wettschreck]

Like a big dummy I put mine on the wall about a foot off the floor. The auger hits em every time I drill a hole.

[LaZyDayZ]

Mine are all mounted from the ceiling.

I use the buzzer style battery operated with buzz and red light. They are a smaller real but have mounting clips so you can actually take the real off or put it in another location if you have extra mounts.

[cold one sd]

Mine are on the wall close to the ceiling where they are out of the way.

[crappace]

Mine hang from the ceiling. Biggest problem = dogs tail hitting the line and me jumping out of bed and landing on the other dog.

I will be putting in two more of the wall mounted swinging lewandoski style rattles lower to see if that helps.

[StrosLit31]

I installed mine on the wall about a foot off the ground or so. These are the swing style ones, and then i used velcro to keep them tight to the wall when i drill the holes. one issue i have is that the velcro tends to fall off when it gets really cold. So i think i am going to install some manual hooks on them.

I had issues with friends and myself getting tangle up in the lines when they were mounted from the ceiling.

[KidWalleye]

Strohs if you have a steel hinge you can "pinch" the rod with a big C clamp to tighten up the hinge. I did this to mine and they didn't swing out on their own.

Kid

[huntingislife]

Sounds like the lower the better. I might have to stand in there with the auger before I mount them. Thanks for the help!

[fishinalot]

I have the removable type that pivot/remove from the wall when I'm drilling holes. I mount the bracket for them around 36" off the floor so I can mount a auto jigger below the rattle reels.

[Gus]

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Sounds like the lower the better. I might have to stand in there with the auger before I mount them. Thanks for the help!

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The only problem with having it much lower than shoulder height or so comes in when setting the hook. If there isn't enough slack room to set the hook, when you do set it you'll send the spool spinning and end up with a big pile of line on the floor next to your other pile of line.

[huntingislife]

Good point. Maybe I will just put them out of the way on the ceiling.

[deepportage01]

I place them at eye level when siting this way you can see slight little bites, somtimes the rattle reels won't even rattle and I'll set the hook, every body has there own thing when it comes to this topic,I would mount them at all levels to find out wich one work for your style for fishing, there really is no wrong or rite way, if you want to use your ice rods as dead sticks with your rattle reels[use a slip bober on the rattle reel and run the line from the rod through the slip bober on the rattle reel and place the rod and rattle reel at the same level so you can set the hook with the rod when a fish bites] you will wish they were at wast height or eye level when siting. JMO

[fishinalot]

When fishing the rattle reels, you want to pull off a few feet of line first, feel the fish for a second, then set the hook eliminating ripping it off the spool.

So you can mount them anywhere you want on the walls.

[Gus]

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When fishing the rattle reels, you want to pull off a few feet of line first, feel the fish for a second, then set the hook eliminating ripping it off the spool.

So you can mount them anywhere you want on the walls.

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Trying to remember that with a few cocktails doesn't work so well for me.

But it should do the trick.

[deepportage01]

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When fishing the rattle reels, you want to pull off a few feet of line first, feel the fish for a second, then set the hook eliminating ripping it off the spool.

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What would we have done without you?