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Anyway this got
me thinking.....a very dangerous thing! I had just come back
from a dive and was legless from dragging my bug net and fish
all over the ocean. I thought "what if the damn thing
floated?"
So I went to
my 6 year old son and promised I would take him surfing if
I could have his pool noodle. He had no problem with going
surfing! So I came a way with a pool noodle, I folded the
noodle in half and cut it.......I did not measure the noodle
hence the the unequal sides. Any how my first attempt had
only one noodle on one side.
The idea was
just to keep it afloat. I attached the 'floating net to my
buoy as I normally would. The net floated all right and the
drag was reduced. But when I came through the surf the buoy
+ fish + floating net full of buggs + a flasher - made one
serious big knot. My mate I was diving with at the time remarked
"your crazy dragging all that stuff around"
Sure that the
idea would work, I got thinking again. Remembering the buoyancy
of Graemes 'fish noodle' I lost the conventional buoy all
together and added the remaining piece to the other side.
Attached a clip for the stringer and tied it up with rope
for extra strength.
The result was
phenomenal I have loaded the net to full capacity....not just
my bugs! Plus I had up to 40kg of fish on the floating bug
bag and I reckon it could take more.
The down side
is that it has a very low profile in the water and with the
light blue colour....it is some times very difficult to spot.
Infact I have 'lost' it a couple of times. So I suggest using
a yellow or orange noodle.
Also you will
have to get used to putting bugs in a horizontal net, the
damn things like to swim down and there is no down!
Any way my wife
said that last winter she saw Game selling noodles for R20,
+ the R20 for cable ties its one hec of a cheap and effective
buoy
Cheers...happy
bugging
Chris
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