Pompon spawning mops

The pompons are from Oriental Trading. They are lower quality than the green poly shakers but are 1/2 the price. I have them all floating in a tub of fresh water to see how they saturate. So far it might take a while, or a wash with soap to get them fully submerged and more weight maybe needed. The smallest sinking model will work great in a spawning tub, or for a squeeze media.

The kit

Float and weights

Aluminum fishing net float and ceramic insulators for electric fences

Cut off the handle

Snip

Handle removed

Feed the zip tie through the insulator then around the pompon, back through the insulator and zip the tie

The mechanism of the tie keeps it from falling through the insulator

The cut end of the zip tie is very sharp  

Melt it with a lighter to save your buckles and the fish's scales

Melted

Finished single sinking spawning mop

Triple (3 pompons) on a large ceramic insulator

Single floating spawning mop

Double floating spawning mop

Four versions

And a fifth version. 

Floating 4 PomPon spawning mop.

Old Aluminum Fishing Net Floats

Found these on Ebay, there are 45 of them. I'll likely replace the cheap floats on my seine net. Another thought is as a float for an adjustible (rotating) stand pipe. Attach it to the out let so when it's rotated down you can just pull the float to raise it. A really nice thing to have in February.