Guess what was Hooked at Hartlepool Today....

[Tat]

Doc have you tried circle hooks to see if they give you a better hook u?p.If you have do you rate them?

 

[Doc]

We\'ve tried them and given up on them, waste of time, Dave might have a word to say on them but I can\'t remember getting a single fish on them in 4 years of persisiting with them.

 

[Tat]

Cheers doc,looks like it\'s 6/0 straight shanks(long,long straight shanks)

 

[Charlton]

Doc, just one Q, do you use a nylon rubbing lenght. Two reasons for using this, obvioulsy first to prevent a tope wrapping up in the line and snapping off if just using light main line direct to wire/nylon trace.
Second which has come about with the advent of braid. Nylon rubbing lenght, preferably sofy nylon does very little if any damge to a tope, although when wrapped up it does mark the tope. In my opinion if a tope wraps up in braid, with it being very much thinner and stronger that it will cut the tope. As i have always used nylon rubbing lenghts i only suspect this happens after seeing braid cut a topes fin, not badly, after landing when it was thrashing about before i could get the towel on. Anybody had a tope wrapped up in braid and landed it. What was the damage.

 

[Doc]

Alan, we use a length of 100lb Dynon as a rubbing leader, I can\'t ever remember losing a tope after it wrapped itself up in the leader, nor have we ever had one damaged by the braid cutting into its skin, this is based on at least 5 years using this system off east Yorks. Dave might remember an instance, but I can\'t.

 

[Charlton]

cheers Doc, sort of puts your mind at rest. Did you get my pm

 

[davem2005]

Doc,
Thanks for the excellent info, I will certainly put it into practice this weekend at Luce bay

I have just recieved my tagging kit from richard sutcliffe so am looking forward to put it to good use this weekend. I did ask for it for taggng skate but was amazed to see it can be used for sharks as well. I appreciate the help you have given and if you ever fancy trying for skate in a small boat let me know as i can certainly help, and the sight of a 170+ fish in the back of a 16 footer is a sight that has to be seen to be believed.

My plans for the weekend are to use my skate end rig on a 12/20 class rod loaded with 30lb braid. The skate rig is 15ft of 250 mono connected to 10ft of 150 dacron as a wind on leader. This should give ample space between any tope and the braid

Tat....assuming the weather is ok the trip out of hartlepool for tope /sharks is on for next weekend (17th) and you are welcome to come along. We may blank but at least we tried I really want to catch something better than I have been getting this summer and it is going to take some doing!

On one trip I picked up the camera after asking the skippers permission, to film a fish that had been hooked. What happened over the next 30 mins is unbelievable to say the least! By the way the white boat at the end of the film is mine

http://www.cem-services.co.uk/hobbies/scotland_skate.wmv

Its a big file so if you are on dial up forget it

Dave

 

[willywetegg]

Great post Jeff, tell Gary nice one mate.

Jim.

 

[jeff]

Hi Jim,

Though I\'m not certain I think Gary still reads the site pretty often so he will have got your message.

Cheers,
Jeff.

 

[willywetegg]

Cheer\'s Jeff, Gary did read it mate I got a couple of e mails off him yesterday. Must have been VERY exciting for a few minutes.

Jim.

 

[jeff]

Yes it was exciting....I nearly dropped my pasties...!!! (not)

 

[Stephen]

Anybody had a tope wrapped up in braid and landed it. What was the damage.

I landed a tope last week in ireland which was wrapped up in my braid around the tail no dammage at all 33lbs it was