Beehive Pots
Submitted by Bryce Day on Mon, 2016-09-19 17:33
Anyone running these this season?
i got given 4 the other day may have to put them to good use! Any secrets for rigging them or just the same as a noirmal wooden rectangle pot?
ranmar850
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They need plenty of ballast
I didn't ever run them seriously when I was fishing, they were very much a C zone thing. But I do know they really get moved around a lot by swell. They used to use a single rope tied to the bottom rather than a bridle, IIRC.
Dale
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I used to use them, but I did use a bridle, as said, use plenty of weight, mine worked well when I had them.
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hezzy
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gday bryce thought id to
gday bryce
can i ask a query on your beehives ...
have they got ballast in them ?? or just the pot only
usually they used to rig stickys or beehive pots with a long section of steel railway ballast inside them , bolted through the sticks/cane to a solid plank of timber about 75mm wide x 25mm thick on the bottom , ot several fish plates bolted in either side of the centre circle
this was with galv bolts , and it made the whole base very solid /heavy and prevented the cane /stick base from wearing away in a season or two
if yours dont have ballast try to set em up this way , crossing the direct centre with your wood plank and bolting it either side of the centre circle if that makes sense mate between the wire frames
we used em a bit down south and off the hutts in winter back in the 80s , they dont jam up on the bottom as much as slat pots do ,there supposed to be easier to get unstuck but they will fill with weed and move easier imo . lots of pro deckies hated em as they where hard to stack in quantity
when the older boats back in the day had smaller pot licences they where more popular i think as boats got bigger and gear improved , stacking and steel bases on slattys made them more user friendly and easier to bait etc
one thing with your stickys we found is they seem to attract blue ring occys much more than slattys , so keep your eyes out when you use them
good luck with em
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Bryce Day
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Cheers, Will have to have a
Cheers,
Will have to have a look when i get home to see if they have ballast! yep it makes sence. ill give them a run, if no good ill go back to the slats!
Im sure they will look good in the garden if they dont catch crays!
carnarvonite
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Reds
Stickies catch better on the reds than the whites so if you can use slatties till the whites finish then swap over.
If they are old pots with the base board removed then a piece of 5 x 1 jarrah with a full railway fishplate for ballast and a bridle tied about a foot either side of the base board