Originally Posted by
TexFisher
Another thing my dad used to use was called a rubberband line. It had 25 feet of rope/string and a long rubber band on one end. You anchored the rubberband end with a rock or some big weight and tossed it in the water from the bank as far as you could. I think it had around ten hooks on it at a certain interval. When you needed to check the hooks or pull fish off, you just pulled the string which allowed the rubber to stretch. This is obviously used for bank fishing and it was neat, but I don't really remember how practical it was. The YO-Yo thing brought back this memory.