Trolling Cowbells - that Glow or are they Glowbells?

 I came across a box with some Large hammered Copper Colorado blades and also some Gold Fluted Willow blades. Big ones like #8s and #9s.They were hiding under my workbench in a box, never unpacked since my move in 2014...

Cowbell Component stash

Took awhile, but I decided to make some more Cowbells. This time I placed a small glow spinner body after each of the large blades on separate crimps and spaced them, to make them more consistently visible. 

Most Cowbells on the market put a few beads under the large blade on the same crimp. In my recent observation/opinion the beads are hidden by the blades rotation while trolling.

Anyways, I spaced and separated them, adding a small glow blade and separated spinner beads as well. 

Here's a few more pictures.

Big blades on cables

BTW, it's hard to get photo's of glowing cowbells! 

For all you crafty cowbell photographers out there... What I ended up doing is hanging them behind a closed door to a inside room/closet. 

After they kind of settled down swinging and hung vertically, I used an LED flashlight (a big one), to heat up the glow beads and blade. I got my phone's camera set up for night pictures, and turned off the light. Still a bit blurry, but practice makes perfect.

Lights Out - Glowbell do your thing!

Closeup of latest glow segment separation

A black light would have also heated up the UV beads on the cable (bead in the gap). Bring one with you if your ice-fishing night-time adventures! You'll be surprised how well the black lights work. Plus you can hang up some black light posters in your shanty and spark them up too! How Glowcool is that?

For more Fish Creek Spinners product pictures Check out one of the website items

P.S. These glowbells are not out on the Square website yet, I'm still deciding which degree of separation I want to market.

Cheers and noise on the line!

 

Fish Creek Spinner youtubes (from Colorado)

 Time to cattle prod those "get your feet wet" nerves!

First, some Dashboard views! Getting there is half the fun - Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton

Gopro videos from Zirkel Wilderness - Beaver Pond fishing with Fish Creek Spinners

South Platte Gill Trail- Nice flow and gravel bottom - Canyon chutes and rushing narrows

Rocky Mountain National Park - Windy Fall Day in the Park

 Once again! Time to cattle prod those get your feet wet nerves!

Cold weather, Cable Spinners and other brain storms

 After going through a cycle of making some cowbells, the cable was left on my workbench along with other spinner clutter (it's a mess, like my desk), on a cold December day. 

So I got to thinking, why not make a some small trout spinners using cable vs wire, and bucktails?

Sounded like a good idea, so here's what I came up with.

I bet I could put these at the end of the cowbells for trolling or just fish them like spinners in streams and river current. 

I think I'll make some with hoochies and banded zonker trebles too.

This is a hoochie treble.

Banded zonker trebles

In the zone, here's another custom idea. Cement mirrors on to the blades using the stuff your dentist uses on fillings and caps, it's water proof.

Inline mirrored Buzzers. Put it in front of your cowbell. These ought to shake something loose!

These ought to flash a bit!

It's cold outside, what could I do!

Cheers and Noise on the Line!

Fish Creek Spinners Models Specifications page

 Last night I recognized I needed to provide additional information on each Spinner models' component differences and similarities. 

My first shot at it, shows and image of the spinner, and it's weight. Bulleted Text lists blade size and style, components - Glass, Metal, Plastic for head, body and tail beads plus size and type of hook.

The most prevalent type of hooks used on wholesale spinners are trebles. During shopping there is an option box listing other hook types on most spinner items - Treble (default), Single, and barbless Treble are the common option set. I'll be refining this over time.

Here's a screen scrape of a typical models specification

Check our Store Categories and products for each Spinner models specification

Cheers and Noise on the Line!

Fish Creek Spinner Galleries

 Still working on the WIX website. The Home page has two slideshows, one of spinner models for shopping and another of customer fish pics.

Fish Creek Spinners Fish pictures

Overstock Assortments

Over the years, my son Ben and I have made a 'bunch' of spinners. Lots of models, lots of colors, lots of different blade styles. Boxes of finished product and wall full of pegs 8 deep.

Cowbells, Spinnerbaits, Walley rigs, Small spinners, Large spinners, and Custom spinners. In certain cases, fishermen in fishing forums came up with new ideas.

Fifteen years of hit and miss, lessons learned and course correction ... Overstocked.

Overstock, that I need to clean out to make space and simplify running the business.

When I sell displays to most tackle shops. I fill a wooden display with 48 spinners, walk in, show it and sell it wholesale for $110. Quick and easy. These owners are busy and if they a have a spot for a display, they deckscrew it to a wall or it sits on a countertop surface that day. A major retailer would have a buyer and purchase orders and draft a long list of items and quantities preparing for a seasons worth of inventory. 

Anyway, I'm still looking for tackle distributors, but in the meantime, I still want to reduce finished inventory and make some wall and shelf space available for other use. 

So, I came up with the idea of cutting prices down below wholesale levels on Spinners that have more inventory then I'll ever sell. 

These deals are for small and medium spinners only, anything under 1/2oz

Cowbells, Spinnerbaits, Walleye Rigs, Musky Spinners and Olympic Bullets are not in the deal.

Overstock Pricing Deals

Here's the catch, to get the deal you let me pick them for you, just like you're a small tackle shop, lol. I get to move more product at cost and it saves you time and money. 

You can use the Contact form on the website for any preferences you would like to mention, like a few colors you prefer or those you don't, etc. The hooks that are on them are trebles.

Take a look around, these are the types of spinners you'll get

There are currently four Overstock items set up.

1. 12 spinners for $27 (around 2.25 each) Retail value will be more like$42+
2. 20 spinners for $45 (around 2.25 each) Retail value will be more like $70+
3. 36 spinners for $72 (around $2.00 each) Retail value would be about $126+ 
4. 72 spinners for $126 (around $1.75 each) Retail value would be about $252+

If you're familiar with our products and want more or just want some new fishing swag to pass out for stocking stuffers or fill out some space in your tackle box, one of these deals is a great way to stock some new tackle.

Too many spinners? Nope, you can never have too many!

 Maybe you have a favorite local Tackle shop that wants some new swag?

Changing Views

Chainsaw Brush Rat progress report.

New Years Day 2015

April 11th 2015

November 29th, 2021

 

Well, where to start. Will this publish? 

Blogging is fun. Just not as much as other things. We bought a home in an oak forest, above Lake Wisconsin, that was touched by Oak wilt. The good news is I increased my Chainsaw collection from 1 to 5 and have plenty of seasoned oak for the fireplace, and the woods now looks like a Park. New Fiskars splitting axes as well. Recommend them!

Wisconsin River Delta entering Lake Wisconsin

Back to Fish Creek Spinners. The website has been hacked many times causing availability issues and outright loss of function. Eventually I gave up on it and had to lick my wounds.  I crafted a few handwritten invoices and took a few Checks in the Mail orders, while pondering how to fix the nightmare.

So, I don't ponder quick, but I recently went with a new service - Square. I've been testing functionality on the free (pay by the drink) offering, and it seems to have a far more refined user interface then the Magenta offering that turned sour. The cell phone interface on Square is pretty cool. No real Search Engine history on it with .store so you'll have to type it in. That's why I am looking into a domain transfer.

Now I'm taking pictures of Spinners again. Have a light box and Photoshop. I expect to transfer the Domain name of fishcreekspinners.store in a bit, but right now went with another - fishcreekspinners.store Get it? .store what a great fishing theme suffix for a store, lol! Have to see where this ends up.

So take a look, I've gotten about eight models launched so far and some overstock discount pricing that I hope takes off. 

Cheers and Noise on the Line! 

New FCS Web Store on WIX

 After the move, the web store hosting tanked and my store site was hacked without a backup, thanks ISP.

After the reality of what that meant, no invoicing, no paypal, nocredit cards, only checks sank in...

I've finally started to rebuild a new web store for online orders. At the moment, it's still on square.site, but in the near future I plan to get another URL. 

I'm going to be adding a Deals category for overstock and models I want to discontinue. Stay tuned!

Check it out and any feedback appreciated.

https://www.fishcreekspinners.store/category/all-products

Here's a few fish pictures recently sent from North Carolina on blue armadillo's

Noise on the Line!

Because the world is round

Lots of setting suns

Here's a few sunset pictures taken after we arrived 12/21/14, just in time for the Solstice. Pictures taken up through the equinox in March. Today the earth has tipped even more to the South, the sun is higher in the sky, and setting farther north on the horizon.

Christmas Day 2014

Now one from November 29th, 2021, 7 years later.

New Years day 2015

January 9th 2015

January 25th, 2015

January 30th 2015

Took a break - Sunset overload

February 27th, 2015

March 4th, 2015

Couple sunrises to add to the mix

Sunsets on Ice - pictures taken from a road over the lake

Ice off

Ronan Creek entry to Lake Wisconsin - Ice off March 27th - taken from Whalen Grade

Ice off April 11, 2015

Time for a Camp fire!