Hi L,
Best fishing show on TV. I was wondering how you attached the balloon to your line in a recent show.
It got me to thinking on the ideal of how to use the balloon to float a crab without stress-ing the line. After using different scenarios I came up with a rig that is in no way going to put a knot or kink in a line and will still give the set up the intregity of the leader to line as if there was no balloon attached.
I used the typical Bimini to 3 turn nail knot but when I attached the leader to the Bimini I left about a foot of excess on the 3 turn nail knot side. After cinching everything in place I then made a loop knot on the Extended portion with about a quarter size loop at the end of 4 or 5 inches of the leader. This way the balloon attached to the loop just has no effect on the overall set up as it is just tightening the nail knot . How did you attach the balloon as I couldn't tell on the show?
R