Thread: coastal lock swivels

All right i grew up in Idaho fishing for trout in lakes and rivers My dad always had this thing about changing colors of your spoons or flat fish which seemed to work After fishing on the pier for awhile many say do a direct tie on with your swivel and leader And i have followed this advice but i saw the coastal locks and was wondering if any one has used them or had luck i was just looking for a quicker way to change colors of my yo zuris and various other crank baits so i can try more lures sometimes i don't change do the fact i don't want to tie on a new one

Occasionally I have used small coastlock snap swivels for quick changing lures. (think 'minimal')
That seems the way to go when there are a LOT of spanish in the water biting off swivels a foot or two above the lure.

Might not have to change colors if you don't use a snap.. IMHO color isn't near as important as how you make the bait look.. Practice knots.. Definitely worth it, shouldn't take more than 30 secs to cut and retie.

When it comes to terminal tackle less is definitely better

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Might not have to change colors if you don't use a snap.. IMHO color isn't near as important as how you make the bait look.. Practice knots.. Definitely worth it, shouldn't take more than 30 secs to cut and retie.

When it comes to terminal tackle less is definitely better
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I had to learn the hard way.....but I did learn

THe only snap swivels i use is to attach the hook to my bubble rigs. That way when the spanish shred the straw, I can replace it easily. The straw hides the snap swivel.

You mention changing out Yozuri or other crankbaits. Every individual jig, spoon, crankbait or even a bait hook deserves its own leader, so if you are going to change bait you should be changing your leader too. Sure you can have a snap swivel attached to your mainline to attach new leaders to, but that brings up a few issues. First it adds more terminal tackle to the rig which can limit the number of bites you will get. If you are lucky enough to get bit even the smallest bare swivel can look like a morsel of bait that has gotten away from the hooked fish and a trailing fish will try to eat it and cut your mainline. I would tend to believe that a snap swivel would look a lot more like a meal than a bare swivel. If you use snaps, knots get neglected. Isn't that the whole idea behind snaps? Tie on a snap so you don't have to worry about retying knots. This is poor logic since a knot is the weakest link in a balanced setup and has the shortest span of duty. Knots are easy enough to learn to be proficient at tying not to take the time to learn how to do it and the more you tie them the faster you get.

If you just absolutely have to use a snap, a coastlock is the only type worth using.

You're right on DRH !!!! That's exactly what happens when you use a swivel : The knot get neglected.

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You mention changing out Yozuri or other crankbaits. Every individual jig, spoon, crankbait or even a bait hook deserves its own leader, so if you are going to change bait you should be changing your leader too.
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Why a specific leader for a bait ?? You can just as easily cut the leader and redo a haywire if the leader is long enough and still usable(not kinked)

i just have most of my lures tied to the leader and in my tackle box and if i want or need to change i just tie on a already rigged lure on to the mainline it doesn't take long and no worries of a snap swivel breaking or coming undone. my advice no snap swivel

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You mention changing out Yozuri or other crankbaits. Every individual jig, spoon, crankbait or even a bait hook deserves its own leader, so if you are going to change bait you should be changing your leader too.
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Why a specific leader for a bait ?? You can just as easily cut the leader and redo a haywire if the leader is long enough and still usable(not kinked)
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Three reasons off the top of my head:
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[li]I think that using as short of a leader as possible is best and cutting just to change a bait more than once or twice leads to bordering on ridiculously short.[/li]
[li]By changing out leader and lure as a unit it requires a new leader to mainline knot.[/li]
[li]It is more efficient to have leaders made in advance and simply tie a knot as opposed to making a haywire. However, an overhand or figure eight in seven strand might be most efficient. [/li][/list]