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mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 08 4:41 pm Post subject:

Stewy wrote:

FEATHERS

This is interesting! Will have a look in our local tackle shop, but I have never seen anything like these. Are they fastened along a line and moved up and down in the water?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 08 5:18 pm Post subject:

mihto wrote:

Stewy wrote:

FEATHERS

This is interesting! Will have a look in our local tackle shop, but I have never seen anything like these. Are they fastened along a line and moved up and down in the water?

you dangle 'em in the water and lift your rod up and down, or cast off the rocks and retrieve in a random fashion. Great for mackerel.

I want to catch lots to eat, and to freeze for use in the winter months.

mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 08 5:39 pm Post subject:
The most I ever had with those two bambus rods were 150 mackerel within 2 hours. Then it suddenly stopped. Not a single fish bit, and we gave up after a while. Freezing fat fish like mackerel for more than 5-6 months has its own problems. What is your trick?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 08 6:41 pm Post subject:
gut, de head and individually wrap before freezing. Probably won't start freezing them until september though. I do want to experiment with fillets in oil too.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46235
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 08 8:41 pm Post subject:
salted and pressed they have their own oil like pilchards do

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 08 9:34 pm Post subject:
I've also heard rumoured that they keep in the freezer better if hot smoked first, but haven't tried it myself yet.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 9:08 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Took the boat out last night and got seven beauties, all in a mad 5 minutes. Seeing as I was out for an hour and a half I think I need to find a way to be able to catch more on my own, maybe more feathers in a string? I have 3 at the moment so would 6 be better?

When I last went people were pulling out 4 mackerel on a 6 hook rig from a small pier. I have also noticed you can get 12 feathers on a line which might be usable from a boat, if not the shore.

I've just taken delivery of a selection of feathers and lures so we'll be trying again, just as soon as the holiday season's over.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 9:09 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

We went to the North Wales boat show at the weekend. It wasn't exactly Earls Court and a little sparse on exhibitors which included a market stall selling towels, appropriate but somewhat out of place.

We spied these wonderful little craft https://www.marinerevolution.co.uk/av3500.htm and are seriously considering getting one.

If you do I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with one.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 9:15 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Cheers, just found some 12 feather rigs but they are just the colouyred feathers, I find the ones with a bit of glitter are more effective as the water near me can be sometimes murky. I might buy some 4 feather rigs and make a larger one up myself.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 10:05 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

vegplot wrote:

If you do I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with one.

I'll keep you informed. We have a 4m Dory with a 30HP outboard plus a Bic Scapa kyak to sell first to offset the cost.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 10:10 am Post subject:
Only thing I would suggest is that if you go for tiller steered then don't get carried away with the horsepower on the back. EDIT: your dory should be worth at least the cost of the boat plus engine?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 10:25 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Only thing I would suggest is that if you go for tiller steered then don't get carried away with the horsepower on the back.

EDIT: your dory should be worth at least the cost of the boat plus engine?

I plan to use a 8 or 9.9 HP 4 stroke engine. I don't need outright performance, We'll just be doing a little tootling around, a bit of fishing and maybe even some diving.

The dory and engine are both well used but very serviceable. I hope to meet the bulk of the cost through selling them.

It's almost exactly like the one pictured here.

https://www.donedeal.ie/donedeal/classifieds/viewFullPhoto.jsp?cid=862070

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 10:34 am Post subject:
Just having a thought, it's going to be difficult to mount a secondary engine on something like that, so your back up will be oars. I'm using oars at the moment but will probably be getting a 2.6 honda or parsun next week as a standby. fund permitting.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 11:01 am Post subject:
An optional extra for the Smartwave is an auxilliary engine bracket which presumably mounts on one of the rear steps.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 11:04 am Post subject:
Ahh yes, that's good.

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