I received a call from Bailey's saying they wanted my imput on this Line Hawk device. So I went over to laytonville and watch the fellows video and took the line hawk home to put it through trials.
Sorry to say, it flopped. First I couldn't get his homemade bags, weighing 3 to four ounce, higher than 60 feet. And that's pulling what appeared to be 10 pound mono off a closed face reel. So I stretched the bungy to the hilt and bent the hook the bag attaches to, and thusly ramming my knuckles into the stainless hose clamps that fastens the reel to the lower housing. Tattered bleeding knuckles and failure to launch. The internal bungy is only about 18 inches and attaches to a wooden dowel, that has a finishing nail driven in at an angle, whose end protrudes through a slot in the side of the pvc tubing. The materials are rather cheap, but it is a prototype.
The lower housing that stores the secondary line, an internal reel, actually met the makers description, but not likely to replace the cube or tarp, or someones lawn for the convience to flake the throw line on. Believe me the old way is still much faster and easier.
The final materials, machining and cost of the device, ready to go off the shelf, is also not likely to ever replace something that is cheaper to make, lighter, and proven more effective, like the big shot.
I'll give the guy credit for his ingenuity, but for his device being the latest and greatest line launcher, not.
