fishing using a paravane

[damo]

Quick and easy way to "dispatch" them - finger in fish's mouth, thumb on back of "neck", and snap the head back /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I hold the fish in an old tea towel

 

[dgadee]

Summer 1974 - Labour government whose majority relied on Scottish Labour voters - why would they give a stuff about English fish!!!

Not sure why politics enters here, but should just point out that it was in the 1970s that the money from "Scotland's oil" started to flow to the south of the UK.

 

[prv]

Not sure why politics enters here, but should just point out that it was in the 1970s that the money from "Scotland's oil" started to flow to the south of the UK.

That's ok, it was in the decade before this one that the thread was started!

Pete

 

[Mike k]

do the feathers need a small weight to allow them to stream behind the paravane without tangling? or do they just stream ok.

any answers to this?

 

[srp]

No. The paravane has the weight on it, the lure (whether it's a spinner or feathers) is just on a length of nylon fishing line and trails behind the paravane. Tangles are not a problem.

 

[cryan]

Summer 1974 - Labour government whose majority relied on Scottish Labour voters - why would they give a stuff about English fish!!!

Pelagic boats are all based in Shetland and the North East, traditionally Lib Dem areas.

 

[typhoonNige]

Another 6 feet of line behind the feathers with a red gill style lure adds a few large pollack and the occasional bass bass to our catches. I use 50lb braided line and have never lost a paravane due to line breakage. I also use a stout rod and multiplier reel which makes deploying and retrieval a whole lot easier. Bigger fish soon stop thrashing around after a good blow to the head from a winch handle!

any answers to this?