I just got my Stealth (clear) Jet Divers (#30’s and #40’s) from JnJ Harbor Drive Thru today in the mail and am going to share a simple modification that can be made to any diver to make an angler’s job easier on the water.
Have you ever gone to attach your crawler harness to the business end of a diver before? There is no snap available, you have to cut off your loop knot and tie directly to the snap or in the case of a Jet Diver, the swivel provided. Its a waste of time, plus can be a headache.
Same thing with my leaders that are made up for attaching spoons. At one end I have a snap for the spoon, the other end a good ball bearing swivel. Now I could have tied a snap to one end, then a snap and swivel to the other, but that has two downfalls. One I would have tied up some very expensive snap/swivels to the leaders, and the second is having them sitting on the foam roll just sitting there until I actually break out the spoon box. Its a waste either way you look at it.
The solution is simple, add a snap to the diver so adding a spoon rig or harness actually becomes a “snap” to do. I tried the smaller Berkley cross lok snaps, but after deforming several of the wire bends in the snap, I went with the duolock snap, the same type already used on the divers in question. These are less expensive and really work well for the application. “Easy on” is the key here.
You can use a smaller sized snap if you want, but other than these salmon sized ones, my only other small ones in the shop are dedicated for my perch rigs that I make up, which is coming up fast season wise. In the case of the Jet Divers, or other types for that matter, just open the clips on the duolock snap, and place through, then close up again. The bigger snap also makes the process of changing out the leaders or harnesses an easy one. I always say bigger is better, when it doesn’t bother the fish, why not use it.
Its not some big revolution that will sweep the walleye fishing world, and many of you may have thought of it already, but if it works….use it.
good luck