Cut cray rope
Submitted by doublej on Sat, 2010-12-25 09:43
Went out to pull the pots the other day only to find 2 of my mates missing.
We searched for a while to no avail.
Went 2 days later early in the morning to have another look and actually found 1 with the float cut off and the rope floating just on the surface.
My mates bouys were a bit hard to identify / read but where marked.
Question is if the fisheries found these pots / floats and could not read the id properly would they cut the float off or pull and take the whole pot.
Or would someone of just ran them over and cut the float off..
Still one pot no-where to be found.
Cheers............
Simmo Ryan
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Yep
I'm from the south of England originally and my uncles and cousins are all keen fishermen, they all fish off a breakwall pier in Newhaven Harbour that is some 25-30 metres high.
Cliff gaff etc required to pull anything decent up and prized catches are massive Moray Eels and Cod.
Not my idea of fun, i'll take a late afternoon tailor bash anyday :)
FISH ON!!!!!!
doublej
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WTF
Cheers for the comment.
Not sure if a gaff would help.???????
fishy fingers
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cant see where that is relevant to the topic
but merry christmas anyway!
Dale
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Umm, that's a bit off
Umm, that's a bit off track
Cheers
Dale
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MattMiller
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I'd say
it's another gremlin in the new system.
I think it's supposed to be on this thread -
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/lb-saltwater-fishing-england
till
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Probably the guy had two
Probably the guy had two windows opened, and posted into the wrong one.
Back on track though. No doubt it was just run over. Fisheries wouldn't cut your floats.
doublej
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Same
I didn't think they would either.
But my friend begs to differ.
He reakons they do do it.
till
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People believe in all sorts
People believe in all sorts of weird things, doesn't make any of them true.
Rig
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pots everywhere
along the 3 mile there are pots everywhere i had a few near misses yesterday driving the boat through, good chance someone hit it with a prop. I dont know how people could navigate at night with all the pots in the water some of them have 30m of rope in 10m of water
AmericanBen
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had a dickhead
pull right up on top of us last week..less tham 10 meteres from our boat......we were just sitting in 20 metres catching skippy. He then decides to motor right up on top of a cray pot and gets it tangled in his prop! Lucky we weren't out on one of my good spots or I would be posting a pic of my lead on his head!
I think there are just a number of idiots like this who are try and take the easy way to catch a dhui by fishing right on the top of the pots. I didn't have my cam or I would have posted his pic!
tomas23
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yea went out and dived at
yea went out and dived at rotto today and also found a pot with boys cuts off :S
roberta
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Could also be
pro crayfisherman, heard they do that in Leeman, especially when they leave in the dark for deep water, just cut the float off and off they go. Don't blame them sometimes as the amatuers put their pots to close to the channel for them to come in to the jetty or leave especially on low tide up there.
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mightymouse
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There are alot of pots out on
There are alot of pots out on the water with to much rope hanging off them and thats when they get run over.
If you have alot of rope on your pot just remember to tie the leftover rope up so its not to long to get run over
Simmo Ryan
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Not sure what happened to that post.....
As Matt said that was posted on the landbased fishing in England post but for some reason came up on here....WTF? Def didn't have two windows open at the time
FISH ON!!!!!!
smash
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not fisheries
Fisheries definitely do no cut them off, they pull and confiscate.
I worked as a cray deckie for many years, and dont know of anyone who just chops them off for fun (for revenge maybe
)
But its just plain lazy and dangerous, those who leave excess rope on the surface whether pro or amateur.
Theres one idiot who deliberatley sets his pots across the surf break at Coronation Beach in the summer, and f**ks it up for everyone sailing there. Brings his pots in from outside and sets them in 3 meters with 20 fathom ropes.
Windsurfers sailing into the sun get catapulted.
doublej
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No excess rope
Cheers all for the input.
Definately no excess rope. (That p*sses me off to).
The more I think about it the more I hope someone has ran it over & not cut it deliberate.
As for the windsurfers, if they are out that far they might need help. Unless they are going to Bali.
Cheers all.