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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: quadrafire on March 21, 2016, 10:31:47 AM

Title: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: quadrafire on March 21, 2016, 10:31:47 AM: http://spokane.craigslist.org/spo/5484237233.html
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: Knocker of rocks on March 21, 2016, 10:49:49 AM: Lot of money. It's a buyers market for that old stuff, which is certainly in need of repair and maintenance.
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: Squidward on March 21, 2016, 10:52:35 AM: are those blocks something to keep the rod from wearing on the edge of the boat?
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: Skillet on March 21, 2016, 11:01:34 AM: Those are rail chocks. You use them as a fulcrum when your cranking up a halibut from 500+ feet.
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: quadrafire on March 21, 2016, 11:05:20 AM: That's kinda what i was thinking.
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: DaveMonti on March 21, 2016, 11:15:50 AM: Looks like a lead weight, which would take these old rods to the bottom of the ocean, where they belong.
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: lokidog on March 21, 2016, 12:18:10 PM: Quote from: Skillet on March 21, 2016, 11:01:34 AM
Those are rail chocks. You use them as a fulcrum when your cranking up a halibut from 500+ feet.

:yeah: The lip hanging down catches on the gunnel and keeps you from being pulled in, especially if you have the rod connected to your fighting belt.
Title: Re: What's attached to these rods?
Post by: cohoho on March 21, 2016, 09:22:12 PM: Quote from: DaveMonti on March 21, 2016, 11:15:50 AM
Looks like a lead weight, which would take these old rods to the bottom of the ocean, where they belong.

Excellent!