Author Topic: Perch eye popping tool ?????? (Read 7026 times)

ChautauquaDawg · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 09:07 AM »

Just curious, If your catching perch with whatever, jig / minnow / waxies are you switching to perch eyes as soon as you catch them? I've only used them when I've run out of minnows. I've just used the hook and poped them out.
Sure it doesn't allways work that great- tears them- but seems to get the job down.

Normally I don't run out of minnows.

esox slayer · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 09:10 AM »

CD...generally I use a minnow just till I get the first couple on the ice and then switch to the eyes. I use a teardrop jig, slide the hook down under the eye one one side, make a full circle with hook and the eye pops right out, plus I'm almost ready to punch the hook through and the eye is right there. If I use the eyes a few minutes and the bite decreases, I switch back to minnows, but generally use the eyes.....

bonkfan14 · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 09:35 AM »

this is the kind that we make at home...i generally dont fish for perch but i use mine to retrieve the hooks that get swallowed deep down the throats of them hungry gills

1/16th stainless weld wire twisted around a dowel then tacked together...zeke

storme · « **Reply #33 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 09:37 AM »

If you hook the cartilage around the eye it will stay on the hook for 20 or 30 fish
without changing it.
They are generally in an aggressive moad when they do this.

JeffreyKrow · « **Reply #34 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 09:58 AM »

Quote from: storme on Feb 03, 2006, 08:17 AM

You are a bunch of wimps!!
Just press down hard at the base of the eye,and it pops out.

We are Wimps?

I think not. What do you do to fish slam your face in the water and come up with a fish in your mouth?
We like to do things the right way. There is a tool for popping perch eyes, and I want one.

JeffreyKrow · « **Reply #35 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 10:03 AM »

Quote from: crappiedaddie on Feb 03, 2006, 09:35 AM

this is the kind that we make at home...i generally dont fish for perch but i use mine to retrieve the hooks that get swallowed deep down the throats of them hungry gills
(Image removed from quote.)
1/16th stainless weld wire twisted around a dowel then tacked together...zeke

Now That is the tool I am talking about. The guy I saw on the ice had one a little more advanced than that, but it is the real deal. Thanks,
Jeffrey

storme · « **Reply #36 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 10:08 AM »

I know , you might get a gooey finger out of it .
but if your on a run popping it out with your finger might save you
a little time thus more perch.

esox slayer · « **Reply #37 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 10:15 AM »

storme...just a couple things......

please explain to us wimps here how you do this finger deal in cold weather when you've got on gloves or mitts....

also, most experienced fishermen will have two or 3 eyes all ready to go in the event of a "run" as you so eloquently put it....and my way, the hook is already in contact with the eye, thus saving even more time, whereas your method has fingers near the eye and not hooks and last I checked it was hooks that got the fish, not fingers........did ya get my PM???

storme · « **Reply #38 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 10:40 AM »

Someone said when they use this method that the eye will get smashed.
I will try it with the hook and see for myself, it definitely sounds alot quicker.
what size hook are you using. I don,t where gloves the,re for wimps.

esox slayer · « **Reply #39 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 10:48 AM »

Someone said?? I take it you haven't tried it yourself but you talk smack about it?? Youth and inexperience at it's finest...

Gloves are for wimps??? Man, just keep sticking that inexperienced foot in that overexperienced mouth of your on here....

What size hook?? Probably a #6 or #8, whatever size hook is on a small teardrop jig.....

storme · « **Reply #40 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:00 AM »

I don't know about youth or inexperience. Been fillin my buckets for 28 years.
I thought jarheads were tough.

crappieslayer22 · « **Reply #41 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:08 AM »

ill have to make on of thos perch eye popping tools

esox slayer · « **Reply #42 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:15 AM »

tough?? we are,,,we just aren't stupid....and after having been frostbit a time or two we learned our lessons.....

I would have thought a guy that had been filling buckets for 28 years would refrain on a fishing forum(especially being a new guy) from calling a bunch of old salts here wimps.........

crappieslayer22 · « **Reply #43 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:17 AM »

who is this new guy?

storme · « **Reply #44 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:24 AM »

Hey, your to serious ,I was just messin with ya ,no disrespect, or frozen fingers.
one hand in the pocket the jigging hand has a glove.Only when frosty comes.Slowes ya down a little.

esox slayer · « **Reply #45 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:28 AM »

No problem...we've just had a couple juveniles on here recently who have come in talking trash, and then when you started the "wimp" deal,,,well...you can draw your own conclusions......

crappieslayer22 · « **Reply #46 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:29 AM »

where u from new guy and whats ur name

dwayne · « **Reply #47 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 11:53 AM »

Quote from: storme on Feb 03, 2006, 11:00 AM

I don't know about youth or inexperience. Been fillin my buckets for 28 years.
I thought jarheads were tough.

Unless you have an honorable discharge sitting on your wall from one of the Armed Forces...don't call Esox a jarhead. Show some respect....just my honest opinion...

If you have the discharge, I apopogize for jumping on you.

storme · « **Reply #48 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 12:19 PM »

Name, Jim
Fish Oneida Lake most of the time, up untile acouple of days ago.
Shores gone from where I was fishing.Perch were hitting pretty good.

IceGeek · « **Reply #49 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 02:29 PM »

I have a friend who is a dentist and she gave me a dental pick...works great. Just work it around the edges and then wrap the pick around the optic nerve...quick flick of the wrist and your done.....

crowkiller · « **Reply #50 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 02:59 PM »

wooden dowl with a eye hook tatal cost 18 cents

PACKERBACKER · « **Reply #51 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 03:49 PM »

I use a piece of 1/2" round nylon and tape the end of a large paper clip to it. Drill a hole in the opposite end and put a key ring on it. Then I clip it to a lanyard With my line clipper and hemostat. Everything is handy whenever you need it. I DO LIKE the wire one that Crappiedaddie made. Maybe he sells them.
packerbacker

bonkfan14 · « **Reply #52 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 04:08 PM »

Quote from: PACKERBACKER on Feb 03, 2006, 03:49 PM

I DO LIKE the wire one that Crappiedaddie made. Maybe he sells them.
packerbacker

no i dont sell them but if i have some with me ill give one to whoever wants one...ps. panfishing pirate also makes them and should have them to so if you see either one one of us just ask....zeke

billybono · « **Reply #53 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 04:14 PM »

1/16th stainless weld wire twisted around a dowel then tacked together...zeke

hehehe Ive got a stack of "fossil fueled" sishkabob skewers made out of the same beast

billybono

bonkfan14 · « **Reply #54 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 04:17 PM »

sweet!!!!! just sent you a pm ....let me know...zeke

hardwater Rick · « **Reply #55 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 04:40 PM »

can't believe no one uses there teeth... mine come right out and the hooks work great
not for sale though... had to throw that in LOL

Jigger · « **Reply #56 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 07:30 PM »

Hey essox when the ice gets good look for a red rincon with big tires on Chamount,I'll have a cook stove and venison cooking.I have been fishing there for a long time and love it.Thanks for the great heads up on the ice conditions up there,if you ever want to fish on Sandy Pond let me know and I will supply everything.

esox slayer · « **Reply #57 on:** Feb 03, 2006, 07:32 PM »

Where ya going to be on Chaumont bay?? Have you been following the big water/jefferson posts?? Tonights report about made me sick, I've never seen a year like this one...and I would love to get out onto Sandy pond someday......I might take you up on that deal....

Jigger · « **Reply #58 on:** Feb 04, 2006, 06:37 AM »

Sounds good esox,I'm not fishing Chamount now due to the weather,but will when things tighten up.I've been following the reports on big water Jefferson which you do a great job at and thats why I'm not going up for now.

Wellsy · « **Reply #59 on:** Feb 04, 2006, 07:16 AM »

Pocket knife,steady hand - all done 5-10 seconds. lose about 1 in 10 :whistle:but I'm o.k with that...

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