interesting response from the commission with regards to descenders.

A chair asked herself why descenders weren't required in cal when they are in others states along the PNW and another guy answered something about it not being enforceable? He said they could somewhat enforce boats to carry them but could not enforce their use, He did state that most good intentioned fisher peoples would definately use their devises but something about the difficulty to enforce use was the reason. Doesnt really make sense, maybe from a ticketing perspective but im sure enforcing every boat to carry one would be good enough. Similar to an 18" net for undersized fish, you cant enforce its use but you can at least make sure people have it.

Great job Joe!

The red sheathing on my amazon chains has been rubbed off and now im worried about the salt water getting to them, I might try to coat them with something else to keep them a little protected still.

That was like a mortal combat finisher on that poor herring jeez. Such a beautiful shark I really wanted to harvest one this year. Ill keep trying another time lol.

On my buddies boat we would just bring the downrigger with one of those pressure release clips attached to the ball. This worked out great since using a dedicated rod to descend was a real hassle and people didnt particularly like doing that. With the downrigger we could keep fishing and let the fish acclimate at 50' before dropping it down to 60' where the devise would release. I think it has a 60 and a 90 setting but I can't remember. One day we couldn't get out of the yelloweye and had to descend 10+ of them. I remember only 2 floated back up but we tried our best to get them on that clip again. bird and seal food .

I always have the safety pin in my kayak but have not needed to use it yet at the depths I fish. I have used just my teaser hook on the chin skin of some fish to give them some help and then yank them off at depth which works in a pinch. Chinas sometimes have a hard time getting there fat heads to sink lol.

Quote from: AlsHobieOutback on August 24, 2023, 10:40:40 AM

Was there Sunday on the beach, still felt sharky even on the shore....

does it ever not? LOL

glad the guy made it without physical injury.
If it were me though I'd have some serious PTSD from that swim. I can only imagine what was going through his head, yikes.
What I'm wondering is where was his buddy?

that dude is either never swimming in the ocean again, or has a wheelbarrow to carry those nuts around

My buddy had tried to re solder and crimp the cable to the bolt end of the idler cable and it failed on the water this weekend.

He had brought some spare cable and some aluminum crimps but was unable to properly crimp on the water, in a similar fashion that you are showing. I ended up tying some emergency paracord while we were drifting that kept him running the rest of the weekend lol.