RE: [Paddlewise] Trolling

  This is just one of the things that concerns me about trolling.  I
mentioned in an offline message to TomW in Seattle that I don't know
where I'd keep a fish, and the thought of dragging a salmon on a
stringer seems dangerous.  I shudder to even think about what it would
be like if an orca or Stellar sea lion decided that it looked like an
easy meal (I hope that they're smarter than this, but really don't
know).  Even a harbor seal or porpoise trying to steal it would probably
be quite an experience.
  Does anybody out there on the list actually fish......and catch, from
their kayak?  Especially any salt water paddlers/fishers - how do you
deal with handling fish in an environment where there are large toothy
creatures around?  On land, at least around here, if a bear wants your
fish it gets it without argument. 

Dave Seng
Juneau, Alaska

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRADFORD R. CRAIN [mailto:brad_at_mth.pdx.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:55 AM
> To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net; Gratytshrk_at_aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Trolling
> 
> 
>     Last summer I hooked what I believe must have been a porpoise,
> while trolling from  my kayak. The action took place in British 
> Columbia. Had I been using a hand line, I would not be around today.
>    Brad Crain 
> 
> > From:          Gratytshrk_at_aol.com
> > Date:          Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:22:39 EST
> > To:            paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> > Subject:       Re: [Paddlewise] Trolling
> 
> > Hi yall,
> > Just thought I could add a little something to the trolling 
> thread... Ive been
> > playing with my own handlines since i returned from 
> Kwajalaien in the Marshall
> > Islands (that is all they use out there).  I took a kids 
> pool noodle and
> > chopped it up into 6 inch links, then trimmed down the 
> diameter of the center
> > inch of each block to about 1/2 inch smaller than the rest 
> of the material.
> > Then i wrapped some mono line and tied it off and voila... 
> ultra cheap
> > handline rigs that fit stay perfectly snug under deck 
> bungies.  They are still
> > in the very early stages of research and development 
> (another words, ive used
> > them once and havent caught anything yet) but they havent 
> given me any trouble
> > yet.
> > anybody else got anything to contribute to this thread?
> > Robin Lovelock
> > Mobile AL
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