Thread: Under water spotlights/Spearing platform

Originally Posted by Cigar

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Pirates gone mad!!! Walk that plank now you need to train to run a marthon to get to the end

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Just get a long spear, longer the better and quietly pole your self along. The light only needs to be one of those under water handhelds as you can then controll the depth and the direction of you beam. What I used to do years ago and it worked a real
treat. KISS.

Would work in ideal conditions but I only get ideal conditions alighning with tide times and time off about twice a year.....ok maybe only once a year.
There is a ironically clearer water esturary nearby but it is more polluted....I may end up having that as my local as ya cant shoot what ya cant see.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you know that youngun isnt silly at all.........there is no reason they couldnt be sonically told to bugger off from some areas....you could have half a harbour that is unpleasant to thier senses and the other half as normal..and set netting still allowed.

They have never been in the estuaries.....that is the most puzzeling bit....the only area left open is the area where 50% of the time on a boating trip you will see dolphins. WTF

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you know that youngun isnt silly at all.........there is no reason they couldnt be sonically told to bugger off from some areas....you could have half a harbour that is unpleasant to thier senses and the other half as normal..and set netting still allowed.

My employer import nd sells gill net "pingers" for just this purpose on both gill nets or long lines but according to commercial fisherman the pinger actually works like a "dinner bell" especially for orca, they end up catching "fish heads"

Do it ow bro!!!

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I'm starting to wonder VC, is this new harpoon platform for flounder, or are planning on getting rid of the problem species?

Might need to get a parrot and eye patch.

you could use that pesky handle to lock your ply in place...
mikee.....with all the studies that boffins have done over the years you would think by now they would just about be able to talk to them big fishes....

we put a board(seat) across the gunwhales near the stern so you sit on the board,feet on the back seat,spear over the back,oars and rower in for'ard position rowing/manovering boat backwards.(stern first)
Various lights,one was a piece of 1/2" pvc pipe,wires down the pipe,with an 12v indicator bulb siliconed in the end, clamp thing bolted to transom that pvc could slide up and down in,slide down in deeper water,up in shallower.
leave the bulb underwater while on,worked pretty well

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Might need to get a parrot and eye patch.

Apply to parliment, thats where most of the pirates seem to be!