Thread: Question for the Tasman Bay fellas please.

Last spring I purchased a wobbly pot for snappering in Kenepuru as I wanted a pot that was heavy and I could drop it deep knowing it would stay in position if I was in a fast current. I am fishing maximum of 25m but mostly in the 15 to 20m range. I also wanted that pot (because I am making my own berley) that I can put 2 bombs and berley up a storm.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketpl...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

Its a great berley dispenser but I struck a problem.

Earlier in the season in Kenepuru there are spikey dog fish about in reasonable numbers [LOTS]. I dropped the wobbly pot to be 3 or 4m off the bottom and when I pulled the pot up an hour or 2 later I had no berley in it just a mass of holes in the netting that wraps round the skeleton of the pot, doggies had chewed holes all thru the netting. Luckily I had a few cable ties that I could close up the holes and continue to use it. I then used my top plastic pot as a bottom pot and the Wobbly pot as my top pot to escape the doggies. They promptly bit thru my rope of the plastic bottom pot and the pot was gone, I now use 3m of steel twisted cable direct to my pots.

So the question is how close can I drop my berley pot to the sea floor without it getting mauled by doggies ? or am I just best to get stainless mesh wrapped around the skeleton of the wobbly pot and put it 3m off the bottom and know the doggies aint going to wreck the pot ? . I like the wobbly pot as I can put 2 berley bombs in it and know that I am really putting some smell out there.. or just buy 2 plastic cages to put near the sea floor ?

Thoughts please fellas and if you could show me what you use to escape the doggies that would be appreciated

@stingray

Sevengillers not SPDs

Yep to be fair I am using the wobbly pot all the time, no trouble with spiky dogs.

Your burley just must be extra awesome

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Didn't we do this?

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....y-pots-102606/

Any burly pot will do....I use the brursco ones.
Spiky dogs,makos,greyboys,bronzies can/ will chew them up pretty much anytime you fish deeper than 10m in winter.
I just patch them up...then resting in mesh or just go get another one for 40-50 bucks.
If you're fishing 30-40m in current no point lifting your burly much more than 2-3 m of the bottom just attracting southern sailfish and kahawai

Originally Posted by MB

Didn't we do this?

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....y-pots-102606/

We did and I feel embarrassed now.. blame the old age