Another trick i learnt while out with andy and extended a bit while out in Cornwall is to get a large water bottle cut holes in the side then make up a mix of 30% vegetable oil and 70% pilchard oil and then mix horse bran with this till you have a good liquid sludge like potato soup put a small hole in the neck of the bottle and a slightly larger one near the base tie a line round it cleat the line of or tie it to the gunnel or whatever and throw the bottle full of sludge over board run one each side of the rods this puts out the most amazing surface trail.
In Cornwall i adjusted this pattern slightly and put a 1lb ball weight on the bottom of a line and tied 7 of these bottle on and hung them at about 100 ft spaced out at 10 feet apart and hung them up near the cabin this did seem very effective it is a pain to refill them and you need to make sure the holes are small so they don't get washed out to fast.
On a side note when i was trolling plastics with gemini in the hope of finally finding a mako we did similar things with bottle of the stern with just a small hole popped in the top and pre mixed the oil but left out the bran. On those 3 trips we had nothing but then im not sure that was a fair test and id like to do some more trolling in the future with big plastics rigged with live baits.
Making up dubby and bottles on the Diane [ PS. Another boat i wouldn’t recommend ] for inshore wreaking for porby's.
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