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Deep-sea fishing on wreck or rock
(Claude Achille)
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As always I will pass for a grumpy old man, but the question remains! Be you able to order a maritime forwarding with the broad one?
With broad, far from the coasts, where you do not see any more the littoral, you are only responsible for all the events which could arrive. The sentence “being the only Master on board” takes all its direction. In addition to the safety regulations human, the good bookkeeping of edge is a legislative obligation. I acknowledge that I still test much pleasure in art of navigate in the respect of the tradition. The book of edge must be the memory of the edge, each movement of route and event must appear there, as maintains it the machine.
A few years ago aboard ships there was a specialist in the radiocommunication, it noted all the issued appeals and receipts. Now, on the ships of large tonnages it is a warrant officer who manages the communication. For my part I do not make a blind confidence in the cellphone. My license of radio operator restricted gives me the right of communicates on the waves with the hardware VHF and which remain the effective only way at 100%.
The fisheries at sea on the wrecks are a very spectacular technique, it gives the opportunity to the fishermen to regularly take beautiful fish specimens. The wrecks close to the littoral undergo intensive fisheries unfortunately and it remains only by funds of eters and more than the carcasses of ships are still generous. It is then necessary to leave to broad to 15 or 20 thousand the coasts, which requires a ship and a weather condition worthy of the fisheries on damping. The last wreck that I had happiness to test was in the medium of the English Channel, it rested to 80
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basic meters in a natural pit. To imagine a damping of eters in the water which will have to be gone up.
A few years ago there was , which received an uninterrupted flow of signals from coastal stations. These signals were displayed in the form of figures on green, red and purple dials, which provided cross raisings giving the boat compared to “channels” on a card especially conceived.
Equipment to call GPS is with the day order to improve navigation and of course, it facilitates the search of the wrecks identified on card, when you can regulate his plotter. The sounder is him also essential (useless to take a sounder color a simple black and white largely make the deal is not to you able to use all given only provided the color screen)
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for is all to tell you, he so much easier to leave on a boat charter specialized in this technique, why deprive some to you? I disadvise the exit to you with, that is to say telling, enlightened amateurs do not forget that a Radar is him also a tool of aid to essential navigation when one practices a campaign with the broad one. This instrument should be obligatory on all the ships armed to navigate of night and far from the coasts.
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Dominant species in the wrecks
Though many species like to live in the wrecks, the sport is nevertheless to dominate by the capture of conger, ling, the pollacks and black and the sea-bream, which all is included in distinct categories.
The conger and the ling those take with a heavy hardware and large soft foods ballasted, on the content. The winches and canes must be carefully matched for their power, their reliability, which enable them to resist the enormous voltages exerted by the conger and the ling, which are wild fighters. Mounting for these brutal fish and is a metal bottom of line ballasted of very good quality from approximately 30 to 50 cm length, finished of a hook of 10/0 preferably of the reversed type with forged eyelet. A solid swivel of 5/0 connects this bottom of line to the body of line of the winch. The braided lines are not appropriate for the deep water fisheries, because their flutter requires the use of light very heavy. A cross-belt is essential for the fisherman of large fish of this type.
Are the conger as ling very eclectic as regards foods, they accept about all the fish soft foods, even if the majority of them are caught with mackerel or squid? It is only with true half that the conger accepts only fresh soft foods, because of many specimens of 40 books and more were taken with old woman limps (soft foods in marine term) of white fish, as the pout which makes the deal very well when there is not better.
The key of a conger of monstrous size can be light, in spite of the force of fish. It often keeps the soft food during a certain time before swallowing it truly, and only the experiment will tell you when to shoe. Be never in a hurry, because from many congers hung by the lip release themselves. When the point of the cane marks its presence, it is necessary to calmly take again the slackness of the line until the contact is established with fish.
When the hook was inserted, you owe water conger released above the wreck. This point, never return yarn: it is thus necessary to take the risk of a wire fracture. The remainder depends only on your patience; it will be necessary for you to know to exhaust conger, he sometimes happened to me to return of yarn to a conger which I however had along the hull of the ship.
The pollack and the coalfish succumb to an average hardware and artificial and natural soft foods between the wreck and surface, although 5 to 10 above the wreck is the most favourable sector. The fight, with the places and hake, is extremely enthralling. The fish of these two species are fantastic fighters and the unwinding of the line caused by the dive of a place not weighing however that 15 pounds is an experiment of most palpitating.
Usual mounting is a hook of 4/0 installed on a bottom of line from 2 to 3 fathoms (3.5 to 5.) passed in a of 20 cm, out of metal or plastic. The effectively prevents the bottom of line from being caught in the body of main line during the descent towards the content. One then brings back it with regularity until the soft food or the artificial eel is taken. This moment the fish will carry out its dive; it is then necessary to give yarn or the rupture will be inevitable.
The coalfish is a better fighter because it is less affected by the changes of pressure. It will make you high less one half-dozen starting before reaching surface. The pollack, will arrive to him on the surface, completely dead if you go up it too quickly. From November to March, the females are heavy eggs with you to judge.
The pink or gray sea-breams are taken using a more sensitive hardware where the soft food is launched directly in the wreck. The gray sea-breams of summer normally tend to remain around the wrecks until front good in December. The gray or pink sea-bream is and the beautiful specimens can attack your line with conger. To fully benefit from the fisheries to sea-bream, a mounting of most useful will be made of a cane to launching to two hands, the bottom of line can be a mounting bucket elevator with two hooks with brackets of 15 cm in of 35/100 and the Aberdeen hooks of 1/0.
As regards the soft food, more the current remains the squid; it cuts out very easily in strips and very of course the hook. The mackerel strips and the worms are among the other soft foods very much used.
It is necessary to shoe very quickly with each key, because the sea-bream has the strange gift to clean the hooks and to little reject quickly what she regards as suspect.
Spring tides = disproportionate appetite For the various reasons, best taken take place during the spring tides, when the fast currents cause in fish a disproportionate appetite. When they are of this mood, they attack savagely with the natural soft foods and various kinds of decoys, without any hesitation. The spring tides ensure a fast drift above the wreck, which makes possible until a score of productive passages during one only tide.
The fisheries with the drift go better if the embarked fishermen are of a reasonable number compared to surface of the ship. Moreover they must let go their line well before the wreck not to frighten fish by a descent of light too important. The fisheries in drift of only one edge avoid the problem of the intermingled lines.
The fisheries of winter are done most of the time with large nylon mountings out of bucket elevator equipped with artificial eels on short brackets. For mounting of two hooks yarn must not to make less than 70/100, and, if three decoys are used, which is the assembly commercial more sold, the diameter passes to 90/100. Even such a yarn can be broken as a cotton yarn when two fish try to flee in two managements opposed after having bitten the decoys simultaneously. The success of the fisheries on the wrecks depends on the skill of the Master of edge. It must regulate each drift to be able to benefit from the position of the wreck and to know exactly where are the high parties. The eyes stuck on the sounder, it will give you a continuous flood of instructions such as: “Go up of ! ” Or: “We are above, go down again ! ” You will have to implement its instructions immediately if you do not want to leave by the content most of your hardware. These fisheries are very testing for the man and the hardware, to face the fisheries on wreck in winter, the hardware must be solid and rustic. Many fishermen were reported from there to their costs
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