19-04-2008, 06:00 AM
Hey enough of you guys get generators and we can forget about lights and just juice the bay and collect squid crocodile Dundee style. I know of at least one person who shorted out last year. Make sure to think it through and if you are tying them off for support instead of dangling by the cord, make sure it is not going to melt.
I was there when one fellow lost his nice, brand spanking new, coleman lantern due to use of a rope not rated for applications at >300 F.
( I was also there the following day when another guy who was new to squid fishing had his lures set off his line with steel leaders and insisted that he wanted to thy it "his way". I shrugged and let it go. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
q:' /> Then some older guy walking by on his way off the causeway with his catch in hand, walked passed double took the rig this guy was using, pulled out a knife and without asking grabbed the rig cut it off and started mumbling something like "that's not the way you do it" and re-rigged him. Of course I am laughing my bobbers off, and this guy's looking at me like "I should of listened to you".
So he casts out and in a couple casts, he gets hung up on the bottom.
So now everyones explaining the "run a lead sinker down there and hammer on it trick" and every other damn way or freeing a stuck rig. At ~ $7 bucks a lure one begins to wonder why we don't just go buy them down point Judith..
So in a last ditch effort the guy starts to brute force the line (he was using a little trout rod so, he probably had, at best, 10lb test on it.
The rig starts coming in. Slowly he works the line and the thing that he was hooked on emerges.
It was the lamp lost of the previous night, and he was able to land the "f"-er. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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<img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='q:' />
I was there when one fellow lost his nice, brand spanking new, coleman lantern due to use of a rope not rated for applications at >300 F.
( I was also there the following day when another guy who was new to squid fishing had his lures set off his line with steel leaders and insisted that he wanted to thy it "his way". I shrugged and let it go. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
q:' /> Then some older guy walking by on his way off the causeway with his catch in hand, walked passed double took the rig this guy was using, pulled out a knife and without asking grabbed the rig cut it off and started mumbling something like "that's not the way you do it" and re-rigged him. Of course I am laughing my bobbers off, and this guy's looking at me like "I should of listened to you".So he casts out and in a couple casts, he gets hung up on the bottom.
So now everyones explaining the "run a lead sinker down there and hammer on it trick" and every other damn way or freeing a stuck rig. At ~ $7 bucks a lure one begins to wonder why we don't just go buy them down point Judith..
So in a last ditch effort the guy starts to brute force the line (he was using a little trout rod so, he probably had, at best, 10lb test on it.
The rig starts coming in. Slowly he works the line and the thing that he was hooked on emerges.
It was the lamp lost of the previous night, and he was able to land the "f"-er. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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