I've used one of these as a kid. I also used a rubber band rig. It is a 20 ft long strip of rubber, like a 1/2 inch wide rubber band, that is wound around a holder just like those. It has a heavy "leader" with hooks on the end, and you tie the final end to a piece of brick or a large rock. You bait the hooks and sling the rock or brick as far out as you can into the river. Then you wait. When a fish gets on, it wiggles and jumps on the end you've tied to a stick on the shore. Carefully you pul;l the fish in, and the rubber band stretches so you can land and take off the fish. You rebait the hook and just slowly let the rubber go and it rebounds back out to the brick lying on the floor of the river. I've had great fishing with both of these methods. Joyce
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Peggy Brenner <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks like a very familiar item, each of us 7 kids had one of these > and we fished on the side of Cape Cod canal and caught a occasional > striper, circa 7th grade. It became a safety issue when the local enforcer > noticed 7 kids with feet hanging over the edge of the canal fishing, some > as young as 6, but we didn't talk or move around, it would scare the fish > away. After that we all went surf casting with Dad, including till early > morning on school days. He thought is was a science lesson, the school a > Dad not in charge and or nuts. > > He taught all the girls how to navigate and read the stars to find > location and my brother to mend nets, he has made the most from fishing. > And commercial fishing is in decline as well, it's global now. > > Dad was a commercial fisherman, the traditional wood dragger, until he > thought up a steel hull, and had one made, the first in the world, > patterned after the old wooden Curlew and the thought came from a navy > ship. It changed his career over night, but he always stayed with one 50' > long boat, he thought the rest was to much for the resource, and he was > correct. > > > Peggy > > On 8/9/2014 2:47 PM, Neville Gosling wrote: > > -- > Peggy Brenner > President IWFF > http://SixSistersFlybox.pbandj.us > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
