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I refuse to pay $100 for the sabiki rod, so I'm thinking of making my own. I was thinking using PVC, drilling a hole at an angle on the reel end, and filing everything down smooth wherever the line will be in contact. The reel could just be attached with some hose clamps. Any ideas about this or has anyone made their own? I'm tired of getting stuck, if you know what I mean.
I made one out of schedule 40 PVC, i used an old spinning reel ceramic guide, clipped the legs off, glued it in the tube end (wear problem) works killer, total cost -0-
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take an old rod, remove the eyes, heat the end of a light weight 3/8 inch pvc conduit(you can purchase at lowes or home depot) and ream while hot with a tapered object to make bell end. Attach to rod with heat shrink or duct tape. The old rod will give plenty of backbone to the pvc. Works great.
Don't bother, they suck anyway. Too stiff and just get in the way on a small boat. One more piece of crap on board. Pretty soon your boat looks like that old mans Mako Jay A is always taking pictures of. Buy a box of gold hooks and some frozen squid. Only tie on 3-4 hooks, that's all you need. Too many hooks on sabiki rigs. The squid works better than Sabiki feathers, and if you bait the Sabiki rigs it becomes a rusty mess the next time anyway. They (sabiki rigs) cost a buck a piece. I only use them once or not at all. Toss it when done. The little gold hooks work better and cost maybe 25 cents against all the costs of a days fishing. Cut em off and toss when done.
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The little Dutch boy was just buying time...
Don't bother, they suck anyway. Too stiff and just get in the way on a small boat. One more piece of crap on board. Pretty soon your boat looks like that old mans Mako Jay A is always taking pictures of. Buy a box of gold hooks and some frozen squid. Only tie on 3-4 hooks, that's all you need. Too many hooks on sabiki rigs. The squid works better than Sabiki feathers, and if you bait the Sabiki rigs it becomes a rusty mess the next time anyway. They (sabiki rigs) cost a buck a piece. I only use them once or not at all. Toss it when done. The little gold hooks work better and cost maybe 25 cents against all the costs of a days fishing. Cut em off and toss when done.
__________________ Baitkiller= Accredited Marine Surveyor
Bait fear me, fish just laugh.....
The little Dutch boy was just buying time...
Neat idea. I didn't know they existed and I've been throwing my sabiki's away after each use. In the scheme of things, a $500+ offshore trip, who cares about $2?
i made one out of schedule 40 pvc and used it a couple times before chunking it. It was just too heavy and too much of a pain in the ass. I now just take a couple trout rods with me and use them and chunk the rigs afterward.
Yeah, but when I'm running and find a bait school, 10 seconds and I'm catching bait, then later I can do the same thing without the tangled mess. The weight stops in the end of the pole and the sabiki rig stays untangled for the next time. Stores out of the way in the gunnel mount with no snags. Plus my kids can use it without tangling it. Lets see, 40 for a rod and .99 for a rig=40.99 for a season of fishing. no sabiki rod an .99 per rig=over a hundred dollars if using 2 sabikis a weekend.
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I always threw my used Sabiki into the ubiquitous styrofoam coffee cup with lid after use. Mack jig and sab go right in and stay remarkably tangle free. Get another day out of it. After it gets a bit hagged - toss it.
does anyone make a short sabiki rod? The ones ive seen are way to long for my needs. I would like to buy on 5 feet long so I can store it in my 5 foot cabin.
We get a lot of bite offs and break offs. Once I have enough bait I'll put what's left of the sabiki in the trash. I do like Bull does. I have a 4' piece of 1" pvc in the rod holder next to the rod. I stand the rod up in the holder and drop the rig down into the pipe ready to go.
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That is crap.
Which idiot told you that CO2 only makes up 0.039% of the atmosphere?
the rods are ok, but in my experience a sabiki only last so lang anyway. Normally I can use the same one for 2 days back to back. If you store them for a long period of time, they dont perform as well as a new one. I have experimented a bunch with it. Even did some commercial bait fishing and it was the same thing - use the rig on one trip and discard. The person with the fresh rig always out caught the old rig 3-4 to 1.
I guess it depends on the quantity of bait that you need. A dozen or so, it might not matter. But 40-50 dozen and then it starts to add up.
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Homeade sabiki rod-anyone ever make one? 
