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I was lucky enough to be asked to crew on a sailing yacht for 4 weeks this summer, they only paid €200 a week but all expenses were paid for and more good wine to be had than you could shake a stick at.
Anyway, each time we sailed to a new port we trailed a hand line out back and were lucky enough to catch a few small tuna and a bright blue and gold fish of about 1lb that we could not identify but it tasted pretty good), also while in port if not on the beach we were fishing, my mate Jim being a keen fisherman.
All this fishing got me to thinking about finally putting together some kind of kit in my PSK, I have never really been too interested in fishing but now my interest is up.This is what I have come up with so far http://cid-16e437714163c729.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/New%20album.
1st I made the bobbin in the vitamin C tube, then the film container just to see how small but still usable I could go, then, after thinking about the small tuna we pulled into the boat I realised that even a 1lb fish takes a bit of winding in on a hand line and the bobbins I had used for the 1st two would not be easy to hold on to while pulling a fish in. So I came up with the design for the Perspex hand line which interestingly, fits into a Fisherman’s Friend tin, the perspex is 55mm x 85mm about the size of a business card, I have wound 15 metres of 28lb line on to it as that is what I had. The hooks are British size 10 ( I don’t know much about this stuff whether or not sizes are international) weights are size 1s or 3s. I haven’t used it in anger yet, possibly I will try at the weekend if the thunder storms we are having at the moment decide to let up.
I tied the line off to a piece of metal in my workshop weighing in at about 2lbs and with the finger holes it seemed to work. Any comments, opinions or advice gratefully accepted.
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