Out on Lake Ontario early, flying solo in my 18 ft'r with a slight tricky wind.
Ran into this nice rainbow:
With that wind, I couldn?t hold the Rainbow over the side, for very long, to revive him, so I did the deep six thing...he went belly up. Seeing this I thought I better go back & get him. Unfortunately, a strong gust of wind suddenly swung the boat around and I hadn?t cleared the deep rigger with the probe on it.
You guessed it, the rigger kicked. Luckily, by the time I finished my ?expletive deleted? I had thrown it in neutral & killed it. Raising the engine up revealed the cable was wrapped 4 times around the prop. :redface: Luckily it wasn?t cut. I was able to reach the cable with a boat hook but it was painful to pull it in by hand. (14 Lb plus probe) so I discovered that two pair of needle nose pliers can be used to pull it up rather easily & not cut the heck out of your hands. Got the probe & weight in but had to cut the cable to get it off the prop. Thankfully the Cannon people put a decent clutch on those riggers & no other damage was done. (LongLine 1 ? Rainbow 1)
So with 90 ft of cable in the bottom of my boat, that tricky wind & really feeling stupid at never doing that before (in well over 40 yrs of fishing), :facepalm: I called it a day & headed in. (I did do a couple of circles though & that fish had gone under.)
Tom B.
(LongLine)
Ran into this nice rainbow:
With that wind, I couldn?t hold the Rainbow over the side, for very long, to revive him, so I did the deep six thing...he went belly up. Seeing this I thought I better go back & get him. Unfortunately, a strong gust of wind suddenly swung the boat around and I hadn?t cleared the deep rigger with the probe on it.
You guessed it, the rigger kicked. Luckily, by the time I finished my ?expletive deleted? I had thrown it in neutral & killed it. Raising the engine up revealed the cable was wrapped 4 times around the prop. :redface: Luckily it wasn?t cut. I was able to reach the cable with a boat hook but it was painful to pull it in by hand. (14 Lb plus probe) so I discovered that two pair of needle nose pliers can be used to pull it up rather easily & not cut the heck out of your hands. Got the probe & weight in but had to cut the cable to get it off the prop. Thankfully the Cannon people put a decent clutch on those riggers & no other damage was done. (LongLine 1 ? Rainbow 1)So with 90 ft of cable in the bottom of my boat, that tricky wind & really feeling stupid at never doing that before (in well over 40 yrs of fishing), :facepalm: I called it a day & headed in. (I did do a couple of circles though & that fish had gone under.)
Tom B.
(LongLine)
