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For deep fishing the gear of choice is an electric reel with monel wire line, but the Cubans hand line their fish with a thing that looks like a wheel without a tire, with one rim lower than the other. It winds on a convenient armslength of line per stroke, and it lets the line off as fast as you can shoot it like an open faced spinning reel would. Grouper ball is just a big lead that looks like a cannon ball. I use a big plastic Cuban with what are called "pigs" that are used as ballast in ships. The pig is iron and weighs 40-50 pounds. You can cut it off or break it off. When you throw the pig with the Cuban reel and a thin strong line, like 130 dacron for Tuna fishing, it rockets to the bottom and the line does not pull enough drag to effect it. On top we use a freediving float which rides flat without much drag. If you want to get cute , you can mark the line every few feet with a maker to make it show up better. We do that Tuna fishing to mark how far to let the line out when we throw a bait in front of a school. Trying to hook a wreck and dick around with finding it in deep water where the top layer is moving fast is not effective. You can drift into these things, but you have to know how far down the current is running , and you generally have to go to the sand and look horizontally to be able to see anything. Much easier to mark it for sure and follow the line down. You can even do this without a scooter by dropping up current of the line and intersecting it down 150 feet where the current is generally diminished. -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Voss [mailto:mat.voss@t-*.de*] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:02 AM To: Trey Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: Deep wreck in FL Hi, what is a cuban hand reel ,a grouper ball ? Fishermen's idiom ? Matthias Trey schrieb: > and sometimes we run a second boat as well. We mark them with the Cuban hand > reel and grouper ball with the freediving float and then scooter from up > current down to the line and then along the line below the current to the -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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