can i have a decoy with a sucker tied below?

[mrpike1973]

hi i have dial up i was unable to find under dnr if this is legal or not i met a man on the lake today who has a red white decoy under it about 6 inhces he tied a sucker minnow below it he said it moves the decoy and when the line starts going crazy you can bet mr pike is around. i just want to know if this is legal nothing is really spelled out also which is better a decoy or a sucker after reading the forum im afraid i'll lose my decoy any time a pike comes in ? thanks for any help im new havent speared one yet

[Fish Toys]

Yea that’s the way BnS does it. If you have heavy enough line and it’s fastened good you shouldn’t lose it. I’m sure BnS will post something. I spo’s with dialup the pictures take forever to download? Maybe he could resize one and post it.

Hope you get to spear one soon and it does sound like it has been slow for a few people.

[bassNspear]

MrPike, this is the only way to do it IMO. The reason that i say it is becuase you are always going to have movement of your fake decoy with the live decoy swimming around. I usally will run the live decoy 1.5 feet off the bottom, and then run my fake decoy 2 feet from that!

It is legal, and i believe since i posted it here two years ago, alot more people are doing it! The photo that i have here is showing how it works. I never run it that far apart, becuase the live decoy will swim to the top and get everything all screwed up.

[mrpike1973]

bass n spear thank you very much i noticed you have a reel mounted on the floor for your line i had asked this in a previous posting i dont understand how its mounted someone said with a bolt also if it hangs to the side and not the middle wont you miss fish if they come from that side ?

[bassNspear]

good question!

i drilled a hole threw the floor, and then placed a bolt threw it and tighted it tight. Then i made a bracket to place the reel on, place that bracket on the bolt, and put another nut on top of it to screw it down. The main bolt is always in the floor, just take the top nut off to put the reel on and off.

I built the bracket so it can sit right in the middle of the floor. You have to rememeber, when you are sitting in your house, you can always see more out in front of you, then you can under you, so if you have it in the middle, and in front of you when you mount it, the decoys will stay there and when a fish comes from under you towards the decoy, it will come right in the middle of the hole.

Make sence?

[bassNspear]

Where you see the red ball is where i have it mounted

[mrpike1973]

thank you very much bass n spear

[bassNspear]

your welcome. Hope i helped you out.

Let me know if you have any luck!

[merkman]

wont you miss fish if they come from that side ?

B N S's spear hole is so big that it don't matter.

[bassNspear]

Merkman is right, there is no way that you can miss in my hole. Its just to big not the throw the spear at a fish!

[lovetheice]

Don't fall asleep our you may get wet, or do you wear a life jacket???

[bassNspear]

not a good thing to fall asleep in a darkhouse

[Gordie]

yea nothing like waking up with a wet/frozen nose

[bassNspear]

and slicked back hair!