"Do you want it to drop the line, and then be able to recover the torpedeo, and so use it to deliver another longline?" Now, that is an interesting idea. The only way I could think of doing this would be either to attach two lines to the torpedo, and release one and then just pull it back in, although this would probably tangle, or to have the torpedo remote controlled, which would be expensive. Finding it when it hit the shore would also be difficult unless you had a tracking device I guess.
"Or:
Do you want to use the torpedeo as a large float, supporting the lines?" This was my original thought.
"Tell me what you want, and I'll do a Blue Peter."
Now I'm gonna tell you what can do for a maximum budget of £50
I can make a torpedeo that will; go out to between 300 and 400 metres, and drop a longline wiith 20 baited, 2 metre long paternoster droppers with 3/0 hooks baited with sandeel, Smelts, Joeys, peelers, feathers or worm baits.
The key word is DROP, and not Tow. Towing baits is going to need a lot more torpedeo drive energy than dropping them. Basically the torpedeo is fixed to the shore using a large diametre circular hand line, or better still one of those large secondhand Australian Alvey seafishing reels (you can pick these up for less than a tenner.... .... .... I know cuz I've got two of em!), or a suitably sized secondhand large capacity multiplying reel. The long line is also fixed to the shore by the same means. The trick is not to tow the line out off the shore based reels, but to drop it from two fixed spool reel spools on the back of the torpedeo. at a predetermined distance the line on the long line spool runs out and drops a 6 oz grip weight overboard, everything else on this line is now the business end of the long line. At every dropper (paternoster link) knot is a 1 oz Wye weight. say 20 droppers, 2 metres long, every 5 metres. If you like every 4th or 5th bait can be popped up wth a small polyball. That way you have baits on the bottom, and popped baits for cruising fish. The torpedeo reaches the end on the long line, and another 6 oz gripper weght goes overboard.
This now leaves an empty torpedeo that can be recovered with the shore based reel, recharged, reset, and sent out again with another long line. The longlines can be left out for as long as you like and recovered at will
So, if you want 200-300 baited droppers delivered to 1000 metres go spend £500+ on one of those Kiwi thingies
Well guys money-where-your-mouth-is time,anyone interested in one should stump up fifty quid,if I lived near I beach I would sure as hell be delving into my pockets Keep this thread going and see how it turns out
I wonder how many mackerel feathers you could take out with one?Those alveys are ugly looking reals,got a few for nowt years ago,used to be good for wrecking though
How did the trial go?
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