Something you’ll want to read…
Dave Z (the Triloboat guy) has a post on Fishin you might want to check out.
Handline
A question of sorts…
Go to any chandlery in France, Spain, Italy, or the UK and you’re likely to find fully rigged handlines for sale not unlike this one… Just the thing to troll behind your sailboat and catch fish with. What’s not to love? They’re cheap at around $20, effective, and don’t take up a lot of space …
a simple (less expensive) basic sailboat fishing kit…
So, let’s see how much we can save by buying our own basic fishing kit a la carte… The $60 kit we’re trying to beat is basically just some line (150 feet of 150# test), two lures (rigged), a teaser, a shock absorber, and a small bag to put them in. For handline line my …
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a simple (if pricey) basic sailboat fishing kit…
The other day I came across this rig for fishing from a sailboat… Which is pretty much the basics of what you need but, at nearly $60, a little pricey for my tastes. Tomorrow we’ll talk about what’s good about this kit and look at the sort of basic kit I’d put together and what …
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Wood sure does make sense…
Here’s an interesting handline…
a better handline?
I just got my hands on a newish take on the old yo-yo handline… It’s kinda cool. Called the Flip Reel it’s sort of the same old same yo-yo mated with a silicone collapsible kitchen bowl and it actuallly makes a lot of sense. You might want to keep an eye out for them as …
to yo-yo or not to yo-yo…
I have some scrap wood I need to get off the boat or do something with and I have just the project… The thing is I’ve come to realize that the boat has way too much space devoted to handlines of the Yo-Yo sort. The problem is that while Yo-yo’s are not a bad way …
The project list and some handline goodness…
I rowed past a sailboat the other day with a pair of fishing rods rotting on their pushpit… Bummer really, the reels alone were worth over a thousand bucks! Sadly you get used to seeing dead or dying rods and reels here in the Caribbean because a lot of folks simply don’t fish these days …