Just put a chrome herring dodger on a clip with 3' of wire, clip it to the ball, stacker release above far enough that it won't tangle going down. Any lure that has its own action about 5-8' farther back than the dodger. I have used this settup for silvers forover 30years,everywhere from Possesion to Seiqu. Its deadly!!!!! Works for kings also

Any of you guys ever use six-packs?? Used to be really popular here in the 70's and 80's. They would be attached to the down rigger ball, and a spoon would be put on a stacker just above it. Have heard they would hit the attractor all the time. You would be watching your rods all of a sudden the whole down rigger is going crazy. We use them not on occasion when the fish are shallow, but instead of putting them on a rigger they will be put in-line with a dipsey and a spoon about 24" behind the attractor. Some guys recently also starting putting small salmon cutouts onto their down rigger balls, looks absolutely hilarious but some people swear by it.

Downtime,

I used to duck hunt with a charterboat captain that fished the lake out of milwaukie in the early 80s. He swore by the six-pac. I have never seen one out here.

Where do you get them?

here is a web-site that has them. Seem crazy expensive.......you remember what the captains name is??? My boss on the charter boat usually finds them at different great lakes sport fishing club rummage sales and gets them dirt cheap. The ones we have are made by luhr jensen but can't find them on the website.


http://www.striper.net/tackle_terminal-tackle_attractor-rigs_six-pac-schoolies.htm

Donwtime-
That six pack is cool looking. I can see where that might catch some debris though. Sounds like Vince and I have some experiments due this summer.

HEY IF JIM B IS READING, DID YOU EVER GET THAT UMBRELLA THING TUNED UP AND WORKING YOU TRIED ON THE COLUMBIA SPRINGER FISHING???

IT WAS A 5 OR 6 LIMB UMBRELLA ATTARACTOR, DID NOT SEEM TO PULL TOO HARD.

The guys name was Ballantyne. I think he chartered captained from maybe '80'-'85 or so out of racine. I didn't meet him until '94 so I never did fish the big lake with him though.

Thanks for the link.

You can go to http://www.tournamentcable.com

There are a number of dredge teasers and kits to make your own. Some for less than $100.