Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Tinny on January 26, 2018, 05:37:38 am
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Has anybody used there RC boat for taking out a fishing line to the exact spot, where that BID fish hides out, and drops the baited line; and then comes back?
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Hi Peter, have used this method many times, you need a boat with a flush rear deck, put the bait and sinker on the rear deck then with your reel bail arm open gently move into the position to drop the bait. Depending on the water depth allow for the line drop buy moving further than you need, close the bail arm and gently pull the tackle off the deck. Allow it to sink before moving the boat and move ahead to clear the line.
I have used this method at 100m range, but it is difficult to guess the right spot
Mark
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Sounds good.
I was thinking of more shallower waters near the mangroves to catch a Mangrove Jack (https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/content/fisheries/recreational/saltwater/sw-species/mangrove-jack).
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Peter, dont know much about mangroves but, prop screens might be useful, but the same use would apply
Mark
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Peter check out the bait boat section oon the main index.....plenty of uk based anglers use bait boats for Carp and Pike fishing
Dave
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Peter, dont know much about mangroves but, prop screens might be useful, but the same use would apply
Mark
Thanks Mark, that even makes sense it terms of keeping the line from inadvertent entanglement. I done see the prop getting tangled with the mangroves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove#/media/File:Mangroves.jpg).
The whole idea of using a boat to cast the line has always intrigued me. The first time I heard anything like this was in the 1960's. An article in a Beach Fishing magazine. Instead of a boat, it was a inflated wheelbarrow inner tube. The tube was placed in an under-toe (rip-tide) to take the tube past the waves.
From memory, there was a wooden cross beams laid on top of the tube to hold the drop line, sinker and bait. A piece of barley sugar was tied to the cross and the sinker. The barley sugar and sinker was in the water. After several minutes the barley sugar dissolved and dropped the sinker (with bait and the drop line).
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Peter check out the bait boat section oon the main index.....plenty of uk based anglers use bait boats for Carp and Pike fishing
Dave
Great. Thank you Dave for reference. Will go and have a look.
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I think bait boats are used for just for just that - taking bait out to your chosen spot and unloading,
carrying a line out seems to me rather more of a problem since the weight of the line between rod tip and boat stern
will dip into the water without doubt and pull the hook end off the boat?
N
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There's no reason why the sinker and line shouldn't be secured by a servo-operated catch of some sort which you can release with a spare RC channel. Those Mangrove Jacks look like giving some good sport!
DM
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Yep! That would of course be a do-able solution . I was looking at the task too simplistically.
N
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Sounds good.
I was thinking of more shallower waters near the mangroves to catch a Mangrove Jack (https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/content/fisheries/recreational/saltwater/sw-species/mangrove-jack).
ahh, the veritable red snapper.......a tasty meal.
Jim.
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There's no reason why the sinker and line shouldn't be secured by a servo-operated catch of some sort which you can release with a spare RC channel. Those Mangrove Jacks look like giving some good sport!
DM
ahh, the veritable red snapper.......a tasty meal.
Jim.
Though I have heard about them, I have not as yet caught one nor tasted one.
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Hi Tinny I am not a fisherman. If you take a line out to the mangoves and tangled roots into which I assume the boat can actually access then drop a line. Will you now have a straight fishing line from the hook to you? If the unfortunate fish gets into the surrounding tree roots, how will you retrieve him?
I am looking forward to battered flathead and chips at the end of the week!
regards Roy
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Hello Roy.
...If you take a line out to the mangoves and tangled roots into which I assume the boat can actually access then drop a line. Will you now have a straight fishing line from the hook to you? ...
I assume so.
...If the unfortunate fish gets into the surrounding tree roots, how will you retrieve him?...
I am not sure.
First of all I plan to drop the bait at the outside edges of the mangroves and roots. Then the straight line between bait and me has limited movement into the thick of things. Another fish we have here, but is now protected, is the Groper (http://). The first thing they do is head for the rocks (its natural habitat). The idea is to hook them and don't give them an inch of escape - no matter how hard they pull and fight. If they snap the line, then a heavier line is needed.
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this is the bait boats most anglers use here in the uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSejDlE-4c
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this is the bait boats most anglers use here in the uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSejDlE-4c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSejDlE-4c)
Thank you for link.
They are getting more technical these days.
I prefer to build my own. Not because I think I can do better, but half the fun is the build and the experimentation of it all.
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Further to reply 12 I have just had a very tasty flathead and chips. Nice weather down here.
Regards Roy
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Another approach might be a drone :), I have waterproof one with a servo controlled hook for payload release that might be perfect. Some versions let you use a camera at the same time to scout for the fish first. Not sure if it interests you at all just throwing it out there.