Quote:
Originally Posted by atomichaggis
A mark drag suspended from a float has the same effect.
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What's a "mark drag"?
(Hawiaan Slang -- any chance of a picture?)
Alison wrote a piece way back about
suspending a bag of crushed crabs as an attractor. I had a surreal experience on holiday this summer. I swam out to place a
crab trap before spearing, usually I take my speargun with me - but as I wasn't going far, I decided to leave it behind until I had placed the trap. As I dived to adjust the position of the trap, I looked up to see
16-20 small and medium size bass looking at me - bloody typical! I overarmed it back to shore (wearing the big fins!) and scared up 3 big bass that were hiding in different places in weed very close to shore (less than 30 feet out). When I returned with the speargun I saw no bass at first, although I did get a decent size mullet & got a second glimpse of the bass shoal, which had moved closer into shore, on the way back.
I wonder if the
bait drew the fish in, or perhaps just normal curiosity (as aspetto depends on). BTW Aspetto seemed to work consistently well in S. Devon but rarely seems to work for me in Dorset. On the last day, I dumped some
fish heads (couldn't be bothered to set the crab trap) not far from shore on the way out. Got a nice mullet in that spot on the way back -- might just be coincidence, the mullet usually come close in to the beach.
BTW my RA spear has a
shiney silver barb that hangs down, SA-style. I notice fish seem too aware of the movement of my speargun (it certainly does not seem to attract them), so I recently tried blacking the front of the barb out to make it less conspicuous (like the rest of the gun). No conclusion yet & most of it has worn off. I was using a
muppet attached to the muzzle at the time & it seemed the barb would be
at least as visible as the muppet. Some mullet came in for a look, so maybe it helped (got one that day).
