My new dredging tool

[keithdog]

After my brother lost his brand new casting combo overboard last week I decided I'd make a dredging tool for such emergencies. This is what I came up with. It consists of a solid steel ring with three 12 inch chains attached. The chains are seperated by lead wraps I cut from decoy strip weights and wrapped tightly to the ring. This seperates the chains and also adds needed weight to help keep the rig on the bottom of the lake for good dredging contact. Each chain has two large 5/0 trebel hooks. I've snipped the sharp tips off and used a brush wheel to smooth them dull. The rig will be attached to a 3/16" rope tied dirrectly to the ring between the two wraps of electrical tape to keep the rope centered. So far I like it but any suggestions to improve it would be welcome. I was thinking of maybe adding shrink tubing onto the chains between the hooks to help keep the chains from tangling. But I'm affraid that also might make the length of chains less flexable than it should be. Anyways, I thought I woould show you guys what I came up with and see what you think. And maybe you would like to make one for yourself.