MINI OPEN EYE SWIVELS #5 & #7 sizes.

Unique

Not found anywhere

No more need for split rings

For use in front of spoons, rigs, jigs, and small lures

I have went far and wide to get these for my personal use. Then, decided maybe other people despise "split rings".

I wanted less terminal tackle, less bulk, and a EZ squeeze-on small rolling swivel. So I went and had these made.

I am offering them to the public via Ebay.  20 to a pak, pick your size, #5 or #7 or both.

Just $8.00 and free shipping in the USA.
#5 is 30#
#7 is 60# rated.

I've found all kinds of uses for them. I really like the fact that I can easily pinch these on to make up all kinds of different rigs out of my "SLAB SPOONS", that I use. Which has practically taken over from the use of a 1/4-3/8-1/2 ounce lead headed jig.  I just don't use jigs much any longer....

My Slab spoons, use a pinched on single "Siwash hook" already.  If you'd like to order some Slab Spoons, I can make them to order for you.  (I can make you 50 for $50.00 unpainted no hooks, on a order basis)

I use the 5/8th's ounce the most.

Add a single Siwash hook and a piece of FISHBITES, and you have a "everything catcher", this time of year.

From Croakers to Trout and everything in between. You can even pin a Shrimp  to the siwash hook and have a flashy, vibrating , dead bait "presentation".

That's way better in deep swift water than any lead headed jig.

I'm always in search of a fishing technique and tackle to make it easier for my charter customers to enjoy fishing our challenging area (aka: Mayport Jetties) without the need for "super skills". All the while, I find it a fun technique also, as I perfect the tackle and tune and tweak it to better suit different conditions and seasons.


Here's a use of the Open Eye swivels to make a "swinging hook" for less snagging when vertically fishing over structure.

(added 12mm soft glow bead to hook for added appeal in deep water)


"SIMILAR" to butterfly jigging but doing it inshore around structure. Replacing a bottom rig and dead bait, to only attract the "AGGRESIVE" fish in the area and not feed every bait stealer around.

They have already worked on Trout and over sized Redfish in the river as well as the Mayport Jetties.

Here's a few other 'swing hook' slabs where I added in the OPEN EYE SWIVELS, to make a EZ swinging hook.

So, as you can see. The OPEN EYE swivels have many uses.

5/31 - 5 days in a row...

Just got done 4-5 days in a row. From trying to get serious about big Redbass to taking kids out for a learning day catching just small fish for fun. Sat in the rain, as giant cold rain drops had us scrurrying away from one spot to another. To no Big Redfish bites at all.

Starting June 1st, it'll be time to mix it up a bit as soon as the shrimp boats are allowed to work close to the beach. Then, it'll be "run-n-gun" time, and Blacktips & Spinner sharks in the morning when it's cooler.

On this day, I had three kids, and two adults. We let the kids catch some small fish for fun in the beginning of the trip, and they soon wore out. So we "adult fished" the 2nd half of the 1/2 day.

And caught two nice 40 pound class Redbass, using cut baits along the channel edge of the river. Just a mile from the boat ramp.

Greg Wong and family:

The time to book for JUNE is right now.
Email me: charter@captdaves.com
or call 8am-8pm eastern time:  904-642-9546






-what to expect coming up soon:

5/29 - A "Who let them dawgs out?" Jettywolf Moment

GOTCHA!

5/28 - Nick & Ted's BIG adventure!

After catching Whiting for "cut bait".

Heck we even had fun catching bait, but these would be better, I bet.

First few 22-30 pounders....

Action wasn't steady at first....this is a "patience game".

DOUBLE HEADER, THEN ONE GOT OFF.....

40 PLUS POUNDER

5/27 - Unboxing "Daiichiseiko DS" Fishing Line Recycler with Capt Dave

I said I was getting one in a earlier post......I don't mess around!

5/24 - NEW #5 OPEN EYE SWIVELS are here!

less terminal tackle is more terminal tackle.....is what I always say.

connect this swivel to your spoons, spinners, hooks or rigs and
NO MORE STUPID SPLIT RINGS!!!

#5 - 30 pound swivel
                                      each comes in 20 paks!
#7- 60 pound swivel

number 7 is a 1/4 larger and better for larger lures.

No more split rings needed to get a swivel on a lure, hook, spoon or rig.

CHECK THEM OUT ON MY EBAY PAGE......GET FREE SHIPPING ACROSS THE USA.




MY EBAY PAGE LINK

SOME RIGS I MAKE FOR "DEEP JIG FISHING" WITH MY SLAB SPOONS IN THE ST. JOHNS RIVER FOR REDFISH, TROUT, JACKS, ETC.

USING A 60# OPEN EYE SWIVEL AS A TIE POINT, AND ANOTHER IN CONJUNCTION WITH A OPEN EYE SIWASH HOOK, I MAKE MY OWN VERSION OF A "INSHORE" BUTTERFLY JIG, WITH A TOP MOUNTED HOOK THAT SWINGS, SO I CAN ADD EITHER FISHBITES OR A POWERBAIT TAIL TO THE HOOK FOR ADDED  SCENT AND ATTRACTION. THE FISHBITES MELTS AND FLUTTERS 

AS DOES THE POWER-BAIT, WHEN I JIG THIS ALONG THE JETTY ROCKS OR ANY STRUCTURE IN THE ST. JOHNS RIVER........PLUS IT SNAGS "LESS".

FLUTTERING, DURING THE JIGGING MOTION, PLUS SCENT, PLUS MORE ATTRACTION. IF NO ONE HITS THIS, IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S NO AGGRESSIVE FISH WHERE I'M FISHING!


GET THEM ON EBAY

5/22 - Most interesting day with Pat from Kentucky

Well, everything started off normal.....we beat feet down river to my Redbass ledge, and set up with cut Mullet out the back of the boat in what was the absolute last minutes of the falling tide.

We stood there on the back deck just a chattin away when from behind me one of the rods just doubled over wit the line screaming off my Fin-Nor 30 Sportfisher reels.

It was game on......BIG "R.B." - aka: Redbass, Redfish, Red Drum

at least a 35 pounder. Pegged the 30 pound Bog-Grip scale.

Okay, the tide now is about dead, time to head to the jetty rocks at the inlet and do some "JIGGIN".
With these kinda jigs. Not lead headed jigs. But short fat "vertical jigs" with a swinging hook that I fashioned myself. I've been slab spooning for a while. Well why not vertical "butterfly style" jigging at the jetties?  Why not?

I believe these ar a ounce and a half, are chrome hammered style Butterfish jigs that normally would have a hook on the bottom end. But I made the single swinging hook. Add a bit of FISHBITES on the hook part as flavor and offshore it's a "mini" deadly, Micro Jig!

So we pulled up to the inside of the north jetty as the clean ocean water poured around the rocks. Had a perfect anchor and a perfect current. We grabbed the heavy action Tiger-lite Ugly Stiks, matched up with high speed 6:1 Daiwa Saltist 20 HC levelwind reels. Dropped over the jigs and for Pat it was an instant hook up on a Ladyfish. Then another....."good, I needed to re-stock my cut bait for the rest of the weekend."

Then, Pat starts vertical jigging just off the bottom again.....Monster hook-up!  And then we see it a 3 foot across MANTA RAY is leaping thru the air. Puts up a hell of a battle. But is it actually "mouth hooked"??? Or just snagged.

NOPE, it was mouth hooked and ate the jig.

This picture was after I took the hook out of it's upper lip. Very unhappy, it swam away just a little "worse" for the wear.

Next, I had a Redbass hook up on the jig. And got a royal ass handing! Breaking off my jig in the rocks. I only knew it was a redbass, because it fought just like this one. Which ate the vertical jig, gave a great fight, and was exactly 27 inches.....so it ended up in the cooler.

  


























It was Pat's turn again....this time he set the hook the rod bowed over like a horse shoe and didn't budge,,,,,"at first". And then started to move away and guess what he hooked this time, squarely in the corner of it's mouth?

Yep, a Loggerhead Sea Turtle ATE his jig as he vertically jigged it off the bottom at the base of the jetty rocks.  If you look real close you can see the jig in it's mouth.

I hand-lined the Turtle over to the side of the boat and it let me reach down and snatch the hook out of it's beak, without much fuss.

The tide was rushing in and I had a few more spots to hit, so after awhile we picked up and moved.
Which in hind-sight we shouldn't have, because the next two spots we real duds.  And we laughed about it later that if we stayed at that spot, maybe Pat could have hooked up a Manatee, or a Dolphin, next with his jigging technique.

And in all reality, we should have stayed right there and seen if we could pick off a few more Redbass.

I was just so happy that my jigs worked, and that they don't even snag up in the jetties all that bad when the hook is free swinging.  This won't be the last time I take those Micro-jigs with my home made "butterfly style " swinging hook out to the rocks for more combat.

5/20 - LINE RECYCLER (gotta get one!)

5/18 - New Moon, what a bitch!

ALL DAY.......just Sharks!  And one 1/2 dead Redbass.

LIVE BAIT equals Unbelievable Shark bites in the river.

Best bait so far for big Reds, on the Jettywolf?
CUT 1/4 pound chunks of Ladyfish.

5/16 - REDFISH EATER to REDFISH battles (7)

                                       5/16 - JETTYWOLF REPORT

Super great day on Saturday. Left the stiff Eastward breezes to the offshore crowds, while we went up in the river and caught Ladyfish and Blues in the morning at high tide. Then went "whackin the Bulls".......and "got worked over by a Bull?"

7- Reds from 45 lbs. plus (scale finally broke)

1-7 foot Redfish eating shark (up in the river!) pics don't do this man=eater any justice! took a hour and a 1/2 to get boat side.

Even caught a Redfish that had survived a Shark attack.

a "who let those dawgs out!!" kind of day. What FUN.

MANY...."Double-headers", which was GREAT.

Today, "size did matter!"