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A little tricks and two fingers of remembering
(Claude Achille)
Without wanting to play the nostalgic old men, I acknowledge to have kept in memory an important part of my childhood.
The practice of the fisheries is the engine and my most eccentric inventions still make me smile, when I think of it!
As much I tested the point turned over with the piece of string to straw, to recover old an appendix (dory of 6.) to make my vessel corsair of it and to build a hut in a shaft like Tarzan. It was one period when the children of the port lived in tape, largest being responsible for small.
The advantage of living with two pitches of the strikes, enabled us to go up some green crabs they have undergoes all possible and conceivable miseries. In addition to the crab races and the plays of massacre (as of other with the flies) we discovered very quickly that our parents were Master in art to fish. The old sailors, who spit the juice of their chews better than in the westerns, advised us in our search and our experiments. During school vacations the first upright, cleaned and satisfied was going to make the turn of the houses to gather the team, the day could start on the hubcaps.
From this period of unconcern I kept several techniques of fisheries. My creations, a Neolithic eras kind, very quickly made me main in diversion of purpose.
Here is an anecdote that I should tell you. Not to keep in mind that quoted functional adventure:
At the ten years age, I had already decided to be a sea fisherman for a very long time, of old told me that to the 4 years age I told to who wanted it
- When I would be tall I would be sailor! …
It should be said that I am installed to the 11 days age on the boat of my father, he just arrived four days of sea.
Thus this summer of my tenth year, I went regularly to the fisheries with my grandfather, who made the trade of mackerel to the drag. It left at sea well before the day. I still remember my admiration in front of this man who led us in the night, holding the bar of a hand, navigate in the total darkness, making use only of the compass (compass of boat) and his watch.
I knew very well how to install a small piece of aluminum foil which packs the chocolate, to manufacture the first decoy. To fish of the ground mackerels, I could also build a bottom of line, install the hooks and take an old bolt as light. One needed three good fathoms of hair in water and the remainder could be in ordinary line, of the black rope made the deal. I went in the wholesale fish merchant a case to polyester fish, it was used to me to manufacture a kind of raft to move away my line far from the block, pushed by the wind.
It is at that time that my need to find combine took a technical guideline.
A young tourist to equip like a small prince: White pants, white short-sleeved shirt, tennis new with the of the same hair and especially the cap of rear-admiral with the anchor of navy which shows the superiority of its close-cropped. This young penguin had under the arm superb, which I say! A splendid model of sailing ship cut for the regatta.
Misfortune, of misfortune. Why me does it have you spoken? I do not know anything of it!
Always it is that this boat was to be able to much further carry my line with mackerel my nasty rafts. The negotiation had been favorable for me, the sale of fish with grandmother for more than 6 years had accustomed me to convince by the verb.
My experimentation of line carried by the wind was going to take a form more refined much. First of all the tuning of rigging, wind postpones was of setting, then the question of the number of hook:
Two? … A little just!
Four? … Well but!
Six! … It is decided!
Six hooks and two bolts for the drag
I had a line of eters to hold the proud ship, therefore not problem, the erudite assembly could take the broad one. The young person started to groan when it understood that it would be never him which would take the command of the maneuvre. Its boat slipped by very well towards the broad one and I slowed down it from time to time so that my line does not remain on the surface. If I close the eyes I still see it! …
Suddenly the boat stops, then spade of the bottom violently twice, goes back to flood and ! Disappears from surface.
Completely dried on the block, I remain without channel. Not the young tourist, who starts with Braille and howls, that his boat with run and which I am a robber.
Time to return on ground and here is that the line does fire as if there were somebody with the end, I do not know any more who, what, how? …
Especially that the other succeeded by making come his/her mother and several people, including two old of the port. The mother shouted more extremely than her sucker:
- Returns to him its boat, room snotty-nosed kid! That she tells me!
He to return? Well-on him to return but how? I have already evil to hold my line with the two hands!
My Emile, one of old come to see animation, a powerful channel calmed the play.
- To close your ------- bandage ---- ! You see well that foam with taken ! Go ahead boy takes slackness around the standard lamp; farm and the line, lazy! He says me then looked at the mother of the young person in the eyes tells him.
- You should tell the kid to help Claude, to two it is easier to go up a line!
The mother remained on her position of “mom ” and its gnome impressed by the old sailor did not say any more one mot. Me, I put all my energy to go up the line which at the end of a certain time gashed me the hands. You will believe me or not, when I saw the sailing ship appearing I really believed in the miracle. The boat in hand I was not at the end of my sorrows because the line still fired from skilleds. There were five mackerels of beautiful size at the end of the hooks. Five fish which did not want this to let take.
The small admiral found his boat, the mom left us without saying a word and disappeared in the assembly which surrounded us. The situation was in my favor because the fish made ego the hero.
It is My Emile who gave me the only consulting of the day:
- Small! The next time puts less hooks, and especially avoids taking the hardware of the others! … He with a black look says Me like the storm.
This little story was useful to me much, since, from time to time, I fish with this technique of drift to the wind. It is used by good number of sporting fisherman and certain professional.
The principle
1 - To choose a float with a size in balance with your hardware.
2 - To study well the wind which remains your first engine.
3 - To know the current which will be your second engine.
4 - Not to put too many hooks on the bottom of line.
5 - To try to make gravitational your landing gear of feathers at the time of its drift.
For my fishing parties I use three systems of float:
- For the conventional fisheries an ordinary sliding stopper with butted of adjustable depth.
- A small cork raft (of 12 X 9 X 4 cm) with a plastic tube for the slide and well-on the obstinate ones.
- The small goldbeater's skin (balloon color detonator) which I inflate from 10 to 12 cm following the wind and the bottom of line + the obstinate ones.
You will have to keep the contact with your line (I hold to with it) to control the technique. These fisheries function very well when you wish outward journey to seek pelagic fish like mackerel. It did not sometimes happen to go to gather scombroid-fish with two hundred meters of hair left my reel. It is nevertheless important to pay attention to the swirls of the wind or the marine current, plus a line is far more he should be controlled. Not to forget not either that there are obstacles to avoid: boats with dampings, buoys of racks, of dampings or net, beacons of navigations and several other problems unsuspected. As always the success of a fishing party resides in the preparation of this adventure!
The use of a goldbeater's skin is current at the fishermen of sharks, it makes it possible to visualize the attack and to let tire the before along the boat.
If you fish the evening and even the night, you should know that certain sharks go up on the surface when the night fall and come to drive out close to the coasts to the continuation from the mackerel test rigs. If you feel a strong traction, kind I tear off all, too late. It can sometimes happen to you to lose the bottom of line, the body of line or as me three years ago to break my cane into two. In the extreme cases it is necessary to be very flexible and to let Mr shark cut the line, while playing with the brake of the winch (to keep your cold blood) the dogfishes give right to left yells and are not so malicious that one could believe it.
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