Hello, I'm Alan Pierce and I'm with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Division of Marine Fisheries Management. We're headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida and we made this little video today to show people how to make a homemade descending device that can be used to get fish refish back to the bottom in a hurry and help increase their survivability. This is a completed one and then I'm going to make show you the tools and make one but these are commercially available. They're coming in a variety of styles. This happens to be a style called an inverted hook as you bend the wire so that you have a connection point at the top and a lead on the bottom and a wire that extends down and is sharply pointed so that you can get it through the fish's jaw. As I mentioned these are commercially available so if you find one at your tackle store feel free to purchase one but if you want to just make one what you need to do that is simply some cutting pliers, maybe some needle nose pliers to make your bends, a piece of wire and this is a aluminum wire. It's heavy enough gays that it's pretty rigid but you can still bend it easily with pliers and either a piece of monofilament or a simple zip-tot to connect your lead. So we're gonna quickly put one together here hopefully quickly. So you just get this in and all you're doing here is making a complete loop in the wire. That's gonna be your connection point for your lead at the end. I'm gonna make sure that's really that tight. We're gonna come up here seven or eight inches and we're going to make a bend in the opposite direction and this one's gonna go all the way around so that it's pointed back to the the first loop that you made. I don't know if you can see that. Then I'm gonna take some cutting pliers and I'm gonna cut in an angle to make this a knife sharp point that'll easily go through the skin behind the jawbone so that's nice and tight now. The next step is to simply connect your lead and I'm using a zip tie that you could use string monofilament whatever's easiest for you whatever you have on hand. This lead is about a 18-ounce lead. We recommend at least using 18-ounces. Maybe even a little more for large fish that have a lot of air in there. Air bladder and that's it. So quick and easy this thing will work really nice. Tune that down so that it's inverted. You're gonna hook this through the bottom jaw and the thin part of the skin behind the jawbone from the outside in through the fish's mouth. This will be tied on to either a rope line or a heavy rod with heavy line so that you can simply set the fish in the water and send them to the bottom quickly. When you get them down at that 60 feet plus you can simply pull up on the rod and the fish is gonna slide off of this hook. So quick and easy it's a great way to make a simple device that'll work well for you.