Doug B.
Senior Member
I was going to replace the cable in my choke stick and decided I would take some pictures and share them since it is homemade. It is a piece of 1/2" emt conduit that is four feet long. I took a piece of 1/8" cable that is 4' long and attached it to a piece of chain.
I slid the other end of the cable through the conduit. I have a hole drill in the conduit next to the end for the end of the cable to go through.
I then crimped a stop button on that end of the cable.
The chain comes out the other end of the conduit and I have a small slot in the end of the conduit.
The slot is there so when I get the loop tight around a critters neck I can put the chain in the slot to hold it while I work on getting out of the trap.
The other end of the chain I have taped to the conduit so it don't constantly slide back out of the conduit when I don't want it to.
It works for me and I have released a few critters with it. Feel free to post pictures of your catch pole. Especially homemade ones!
I slid the other end of the cable through the conduit. I have a hole drill in the conduit next to the end for the end of the cable to go through.
I then crimped a stop button on that end of the cable.
The chain comes out the other end of the conduit and I have a small slot in the end of the conduit.
The slot is there so when I get the loop tight around a critters neck I can put the chain in the slot to hold it while I work on getting out of the trap.
The other end of the chain I have taped to the conduit so it don't constantly slide back out of the conduit when I don't want it to.
It works for me and I have released a few critters with it. Feel free to post pictures of your catch pole. Especially homemade ones!