Spacewaist
Well-Known Member
OK - I'll fall for it.
A muppet lure is essentially a plastic tube with one end frayed which looks a bit like a tiny octopus. It is weighted with a large lead shot inside its 'head' with a steel trace though it onto the hook which hides in the frayed bit. Any fishing tackle shop sells them. They come in different colours: red pink white and natural! I have had most success with the more garish reds. You can also use different types of trailing lure.
Two ways of deploying it. If you have a rod, you can attach a drain pipe on the push/pulpit (above transom end, I can never remember which it is) and secure a rod in it - a bit like a proper big game fishing set up.
The classic mariners way is on the end of a long (50+ meters) hand line secured to the transom with about 10 metres of 200lb line on the traling end onto which you attach the trace. Make a slack loop in the hand line with some bungy cord so that when the bite happens the bungy stetches and the hand line becomes taut and takes the strain. Under way, the bungy takes the strain, and the slack loop is led to make an alarm, whereby - say - a coin drops into an empty beer can with a clatter when the fish bites.
My experience with this rather Heath Robinson method is patchy, particulalry at higher boat speeds - so I bought a drain pipe!
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A muppet lure is essentially a plastic tube with one end frayed which looks a bit like a tiny octopus. It is weighted with a large lead shot inside its 'head' with a steel trace though it onto the hook which hides in the frayed bit. Any fishing tackle shop sells them. They come in different colours: red pink white and natural! I have had most success with the more garish reds. You can also use different types of trailing lure.
Two ways of deploying it. If you have a rod, you can attach a drain pipe on the push/pulpit (above transom end, I can never remember which it is) and secure a rod in it - a bit like a proper big game fishing set up.
The classic mariners way is on the end of a long (50+ meters) hand line secured to the transom with about 10 metres of 200lb line on the traling end onto which you attach the trace. Make a slack loop in the hand line with some bungy cord so that when the bite happens the bungy stetches and the hand line becomes taut and takes the strain. Under way, the bungy takes the strain, and the slack loop is led to make an alarm, whereby - say - a coin drops into an empty beer can with a clatter when the fish bites.
My experience with this rather Heath Robinson method is patchy, particulalry at higher boat speeds - so I bought a drain pipe!
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