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I like to use a fishing rod and reel....with two "nuts" attached to the end.  I have also used 2-oz to 5-oz fishing weights.  The mono filament line needs to be around 10 pound test.  Yea, I know...we catch Catfish in Kansas...not trout.  

I have had good luck with this and enjoy the practice of putting the weights in ther "right place" for crappie season.  A few hours of casting and you can get pretty good at it.  

I then use some string or small rope...and back haul through the trees.  The tennis ball is great, but I've had them get caught in trees.  Yep..true!  The weights to not seem to do that.

Lee - K0WA



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I home brewed one of those fishing reel/slingshot things that are advertised in QST for $99 with a $15 reel, a $7 slinshot and a hose clamp.  Works great with a heavy fishing weight in the tall oaks and maples at our lake place in the Ozarks.  At the home QTH in Kansas we have no trees of any size in our small yard so I just climb the tower :)

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I like to use a fishing rod and reel....with two "nuts" attached to the end.  I have also used 2-oz to 5-oz fishing weights.  The mono filament line needs to be around 10 pound test.  Yea, I know...we catch Catfish in Kansas...not trout.  

I have had good luck with this and enjoy the practice of putting the weights in ther "right place" for crappie season.  A few hours of casting and you can get pretty good at it.  

I then use some string or small rope...and back haul through the trees.  The tennis ball is great, but I've had them get caught in trees.  Yep..true!  The weights to not seem to do that.

Lee - K0WA



In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply.  If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it.  If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense.  Is Common Sense divine?
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