Thread: Egg rolling in twizel/tekapo canals sinker question

Just gearing up to have my first crack at this there seems to be two types of sinkers, the ones with the wire like this

https://www.fishermansloft.co.nz/Sho...Drift-Sinkers/

and the ones that have the knotless connectors and no wires like this

https://www.completeangler.co.nz/ind...log&blog_id=34

Does one work better/snag less than the other?

A cunning fella would tie sinker onto bit of say 3lb nylon to a swivel on end of main line.....that way when you get snagged,you only loose sinker. you can get away with simple ball sinker that way.

Yep that's the way to do it on snaggy ground. If the current isn't high in snaggy ground, I use a spoon sinker and when retrieving wind fast to make it rise to the top and come in on the surface and not get caught on the bottom. As Mick the Duck says, a weight on a lighter-than-the-mainline trace is the way to go so it snaps before ya mainline.

Irishman fly over to Tekapo canel closed for winter too.

it's standard practice to run a short fluro trace from the braid to a 3 way swivel with a short (30-40 cm) lighter (4lb) trace to the weight and up to a metre or so of 6-10lb fluro to the egg. The two shops in the links above both sell a lot of quality canal fishing gear yet they seem to favour quite different sinker designs, surely one must trump the other?

You can cycle 3km's downstream from the bridge to legally fish lower tekapo I have heard?

Look at last years Fishing and Advenure vid on the canal trout fishing. The tattooed dude shows the setup but the sinker is a long cyclindrical one. The one you posted is much fatter. The boys in the know must keep their trade secrets.