bass+bugs 1-30 sd bay

[Captwoody]

bass/bugs SD Bay 1-30 , we fished gulp last hour of light for one sand bass on a slack tide. moved over to zuniga with 3 eclipse nets for my first attemp at lobstering. dropped in 20 ft of water on the bay side waited 30 mins for a crab, redropped waited another 30 caught crabs,2 shorts and some fish, redropped 4 more times for the same results moved to so side of jetty caught one bareley legal and a buch of shorts called it a night at 11pm for 15 shorts 30 crabs 2 sting rays 15 rockfish and on the poles we did battle with a large ray a skate and a sand bass between sets. good learning experience for my first time lobstering. How do I store the extra rope when it is a 100 ft rope and i am setting in 20 ft of water, do you coil and tie it off or is there another trick. and yes I know I need more traps I am just getting started-WOODY

[chris]

i use the cheap plastic electrical cord organizers and zip ties. i'll try to take a picture for you. youi can get them at home depot wal mart wal greens.

[Captwoody]

Thanks for the pointers ZIP ties and storing the rope above the float seem to be the general rule from the other boards. lobstering is a lot more fun than i thought it would be-woody :banana:

[chris]

yes it is I always have a good time . here's th pic of how i run them


I tie the float off seperate so the cord the wrapped rope is like 12" under water it makes a good handle to grab
it's also easy to pre mark depths on your rope. have fun and be safe

[Captwoody]

thanks for the picture it makes sense now-woody

[HESBROS]

Woody, we cut our ropes into 50ft lengths, so there is less line to bundle, if we are going to hoop deeper than 50, we just add on the other 50.

[Captwoody]

how do you connect them with the bouy so the rope will pass thru?

[HESBROS]

Woody, if you question about the float is for me, here is my reply. I dont use the Promar floats. I bought some clear water jugs from Walmart for a couple bucks and use them. The end of the rope is tied off to the handle of the jug. We actually quit zip tying our rope and use a different method with the jugs. We left enough slack where the jug is tied so we could tie a loop, and on that loop is a carbiner. We wind the rope around the jug for storage. When we are hooping, we measure out enough rope for the depth, then make a few raps on the carabiner, leaving the excess wrapped around the jug. The clear jug is great for putting a light stick in. If you are interested, I can post some pics of our set up. So here I will explain what we do. We have 50ft wrapped around the jug. If we are hooping in 25 ft, we unwrap 30 ft, levaing the 20 ft wrapped, the jug serves as a spool in way. The wraps around the carabiner keep the rest of the rope on the jug. When we pull our nets, we just wrap the 30feet we are using back around the jug so we dont get a mess in the boat. When we drop the net back in, we drop the net with a few feet of rope unwound off the jug, then drop the jug, the jug floats and roles, and the rest of the 30ft unwinds by itself. Hope this makes sense and helps.

Eddie

[Captwoody]

Thanks eddie, if i understand correctly the caribiner is on the handle a couple of friction wraps secure it. what is the size of the water jugs? thanks woody

[HESBROS]

Sounds like you got it. I really never looked at the size. Maybe a gallon. You can get them at pic and save or those dollar stores. They look like an old fashioned jug with a screw op cap that also pops up and open.