Flasher Rash Vest / Cammo wetsuit?

[Pav]

I've always found the use of flashers useful. Having read the recent discussion on cammo wetsuits on this forum it reminded me of my intentions re. disguise!

Old rash vest. Decorative reflective thread (surely easy to find this time of year! xmas). Then sew eel length threads all over the rash vest.

No longer are you a potential Seal scaring the fish, or need you disguise yourself as a clump of seaweed! ... but instead you are a shoal of bait fish... surely to get the interest of your prey.

I imagine the approach must have some consequencecs (starting in the car park from your dive buddy!).... but surely someone else must have tried this. I'll have to leave it until next season now.

 

[SpeerO]

Hmm.. definetly a funny sight!!rofl

Id be worried attrackting unwanted prey... not necesseraly sharks but maybe some cudas chopping ur nads off:naughty

Good luck anyways... nothing wrong with trying!

Zane...

 

[richiedubya]

Sounds like a good idea! Wish i had thought of it.
Post back and tell us how it goes.

 

[foxfish]

I have moved this little bit I wrote on the Guernsey thread some time ago.
There was one dive though in about 1994, which saw me walking down Perelle slip. To some i guess i may have looked slightly odd, due mainly to a shiny silver oversuit i had made from a St Johns Ambulance survival blanket. Anyhow it seemed my appearance had attracted quite a crowd. A teacher friend of mine was leading a group of special needs kids on a beachcombing jolly. After serious interigation as to why a space man was walking down the beach i had a chance to explain to my teacher friend there was a small reef only metres from the shore, if i was lucky enough to spear a fish i would stand up and show it to the kids.

The conditions were perfect a big spring, hot and sunny. Of course spitting in my mask and de-snotting bought rowdy laughter from my audience. A few metres out i loaded my gun, a few metres more i was at the spot. The reef itself only one and a half metres high and barely covered produced the ideal conditions. The many crabs that live amongst the bladder wrack were having their cover swept back by the incoming tide, exposing them to any lurking Bass. Staying on the surface and keeping on the outside parameter, making best use of my camouflaged oversuit against the silver surface glare. I spotted a silver patch amongst the weed, took aim and fired. Deep down inside a thought i had a fish to show off, i was wrong! I had neatly speared two Bass of about three and a half pound a piece. Standing up i shouted "I've got two"!

Several weeks later i saw teacher friend, strangely he seemed to think i was somewhat lucky. I told him the silver smoker is never lucky.
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[SpeerO]

lol thats a pretty funny story mate!!

Zane...

 

[Pastor]

strangely he seemed to think i was somewhat lucky.

Why do people always assume that?

I told him the silver smoker is never lucky.

Exactly!

 

[foxfish]

Thanks Pastor it would seem you trust me before we meet. rofl

 

[deep thinker]

Good on you mate rofl . Sounds like a good idea personally id rather be reflective on the surface than be mistaken for a school of baitfish in my home waters rofl . But yet it sounds as if it mite work let us know once youve tried it hey...