Long craypot lines.
This is a bitch to you halfwits that insist on leaving miles of line floating on the surface above your pots!. Several points come to mind, if of course you are capable of reading this. First, the entanglement risk is very high, particularly when heading back into the sun, or manouvering around pots. Second, I don't think it does any favours to to the leg and trim system when you get pulled up at speed or worse, when the line wraps up tight around the prop. I wonder how often people think their pots have been moved or stolen, when they have simply been dragged out of position, or actually cut off. Third, it demonstrates a total disregard for others and piss poor seamanship. It's not hard to put a weight a couple of metres down and/or shorten your lines to suit the depth you're fishing in for Christs'sake. Try being even vaguely considerate to others for a change.
sea-kem
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Date Joined: 30/11/09
It's literally mainly pro
It's literally mainly pro pots I see with heaps of line on the surface, fucks me off when they insist on laying their pots across one of the main channels out to sea from where I am. They are the ones who don't give a fuck.
As a rule I'm in 8m and have 12m of rope more than enough and they don't bounce.
But I guess metro this time of year is a cluster. Good luck with that!
Love the West!