I have some scrap wood I need to get off the boat or do something with and I have just the project… The thing is I’ve come to realize that the boat has way too much space devoted to handlines of the Yo-Yo sort. The problem is that while Yo-yo’s are not a bad way …
I rowed past a sailboat the other day with a pair of fishing rods rotting on their pushpit… Bummer really, the reels alone were worth over a thousand bucks! Sadly you get used to seeing dead or dying rods and reels here in the Caribbean because a lot of folks simply don’t fish these days …
When I was a kid I used to fish a lot with a cheap handline. I’m sure you know the sort… Thirty feet or so of green seine line, a few feet of monofilament leader, a sinker and a couple of hooks on a wooden frame… Sadly, they are something of a rarity these days …