Lobster Pots !!

[Rigger Mortice]

This is what's needed


You can get a few mackerel at the same time.

 

[mjcoon]

I haven't read the whole thread either, but I see from Radio Times there's an ITV programme 20:00 28th June in which Ben Fogle "joins fisherman Rob Channon ... while they check their lobster pots ... just outside Poole harbour." So maybe there'll be a view from the other side!

Mike.

 

[ChrisE]

I have a rope cutter. But that is not the only thing that gets caught. The death I referred to earlier was the result of a pot wrap[ping round a rudder - and not a spade rudder.

Of course it is sensible to avoid them if you can, but the whole point is that many are not marked, are in fairways or in areas of strong tidal streams and you can't see them, particularly at night. Suggest you do a bit of research and you will soon find how extensive the problem is.

So don't dismiss it as not a problem - why do you think rope cutters exist?

I don't dismiss it as not a problem, I spend my sailing time surrounded by buoys and I do dismiss them as a problem for me, you are welcome to take a different view just don't expect me to agree with it.

 

[Sybarite]

and the French use blag flags which isn't an awful lot of use at night !

!

Paradoxically, black is the most visible colour at night time.

 

[Sybarite]

Sorry I haven't trolled through the whole thread but the chances of fouling the line would be very much less if all the lines were weighted 2/3 metres down so that they would hang vertically.

I also saw a report on a round-the-world type boat which had a trap/well in the cockpit, directly above the prop. By opening this you could directly access the prop in order to cut the lines.

 

[single]

I have missed loads of the threads so it may have been mentionrd but why have surface markers? Whats wrong with a pick up line just above the sea bed that by gps the fishermen can trawl up.

 

[prv]

I also saw a report on a round-the-world type boat which had a trap/well in the cockpit, directly above the prop. By opening this you could directly access the prop in order to cut the lines.

It's standard fit on narrowboats, they call it the "weed hatch". Does seem like a useful thing to have, if the design of the boat makes it feasible. I'd need to have a great big trunk up through my engine bay where the fuel tank, filters, header tank, etc are.

Pete

 

[cryan]

Lol, 17 pages of thread, you guys really hate these creels!

There is of course a very simple way to sort out the problem which does not involve superhero night vision or crystal balls to avoid the buoys and markers. Simply find out which pub the culprit frequents and march in there and tell him in no short order that you don't approve of his behaviour and that if you catch him at it again you'll cut all his lines and sink his boat!

 

[Sandyman]

Lol, 17 pages of thread, you guys really hate these creels!

There is of course a very simple way to sort out the problem which does not involve superhero night vision or crystal balls to avoid the buoys and markers. Simply find out which pub the culprit frequents and march in there and tell him in no short order that you don't approve of his behaviour and that if you catch him at it again you'll cut all his lines and sink his boat!

An excellent idea

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Lol, ...... find out which pub the culprit frequents and march in there and tell him in no short order that you don't approve of his behaviour ....

LOL, indeed - why do they not mark them clearly, the ones that don't?

 

[Greenheart]

There is of course a very simple way to sort out the problem...tell him in no short order that you don't approve of his behaviour and that if you catch him at it again you'll cut all his lines and sink his boat!

Not sure that is a solution...if some goon contentedly uses barely-visible 'markers' for his pots, he's unlikely to show enough sense to respond positively when the fact is objected to. It's not likely to be the first time he'd heard of yachtsmen's irritation, is it?

We're better off just doing what you otherwise suggest, Cryan...I don't mean sinking the fool's boat - why sink to his level - but while we never wilfully get tangled, we should never, ever scruple to slash away anything we find ourselves tangled up in.

 

[Tranona]

LOL, indeed - why do they not mark them clearly, the ones that don't?

Because they are cheapskates - and an old oil container is free! They do not need to mark them for their own benefit as they have the waypoint in the GPS. Also they don't haul when there is a tide running -as guess what they are just under the surface and difficult to haul.

All reasons given by the boss of our local fish merchant when I raised it with him. (Actually the blue ones I was complaining about are old chemical containers, free from a local factory which then avoids disposal costs).

 

[Babylon]

I've got a solution: force everyone to become vegetarians.

In the meantime, I cannot believe that this thread is still running!

Zzzzzzz....