So, I have been thinking about a way to deliver my eel out a little further than I can cast when shore fishing, especially in the canal.
I have tried searching for a method and remember several years ago that there was a contraption of a radio controlled boat that would bring your bait out, you push a release button, then the thing automatically comes back to you. ALl I can seem to find are "bait boats" designed for carp fishing that are essentially floating bird feeders.
It would be sweet to finally be able to get my eel out to jigging distance to drift it right down the middle of the chute.
Any advice???
Would it still be considered "shore" fish or would it now be a "boat " fish???

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Release a chum slick along with eel.
Best time would be Mon. thru Thu. In the event you get arrested you won't have to spend the weekend in jail.
If the coast guard allowed it what is to say a wacko loads a bait boat with TNT.
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In all seriousness there is a product out there- I've seen a ~10 min youtube video of a guy launching a toy boat from the surf, getting it out through some serious breakers, and using it to deposit bait. For the life of me I can't find it, though. I think it was in CA.

There's a bunch of patent applications for it, as well.

All you need is a receiver and transmitter that has a extra port for a servo. The spare servo would attached to a small spring load clip that opens up when activated on the transmitter.
Or attach the clip to servo that controls speed only rig it up so when you go in reverse it releases the clip
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I thought I saw a video of one a year or so ago. Out of Austrailia? If I remember right I think it only ran $6000-$7000.

google radio controlled fishing boat
You can buy a gadget to attach to your toy boat that will drag your bait out to a few hundred feet.
Of course with an eel attached, a closeup might look like a japanese horror movie from the fifties. ATTACK OF THE KILLER EELS

R/C Helicopter.

I always wondered why the guys at Race Point don't use kites to get bait out.

Any or all of these options would make a phenomenal youtube video.

Attached a large test tube at a 45 degree angle to an inexpensive RC boat. Load the eel or bait into the tube and out line as the boat reaches destination then pull the line out of the tube. Stuff the top of the tube with biodegradable paper in case the eel wants to escape.
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Buy The Original "RC Fishing Pole", fits any R/C Boat! (http://rcfishingworld.com/)

:)

Just jig with an eelskin jig:uhuh:
a whole lot less complicated McGyver :hs:


and here I thought you trained your eels to swim out there for you

Sounds like a messy eel boat ball waiting to happen.

Got current? Get planer board.

Use a thin rubber band to hold the eel close to the boat. When it gets out where you want to drop the eel, yank hard to break the band.
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I saw a video of guys using a Kayak to drop bait Shark fishing from shore.

years ago I had an idea to drift an eel WAAAY out the end of a breachway... sure, you can just drift it the old fashioned way, but I wanted it wayyyy out. So I thought of blowing up a balloon, and tying it to my swivel. Then take a piece of tape, stick it on the balloon, and make a tiny pin hole. Toss it into the outflow, and let the current take the balloon way out as your eel is suspended off the bottom... the air will take a few minutes to deflate through the pinhole, and the eel will eventually sink to the bottom and you can now slowly retrieve it a few hundred yards. Does it work? I dont know. never tried it... I just said I thought of it once... but I bet it works...

Use a thin rubber band to hold the eel close to the boat. When it gets out where you want to drop the eel, yank hard to break the band.
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With my luck, the rubber band wouldnt break, and the boat would flip over and I would lose my new toy

use a outrigger clip

Just get a boat and forget shore fishing.
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I have an article from 1963 Salwater Fishing, that was given to me about the Canal. In this article the guy talks about an old timer who would put clamworms on a small piece of wood and float it out into the Canal with a rubber band holding it in place. He would also have a small keel on the board to keep it upright.

Apparently he would out fish everyone around him.

cast out from say the fish pier an 8 oz sinker, the main line, attach about a 6 or 8 ft line with the eel on it to the main line with a fish finder or sliding clip deal

they use a set up like this in FL for shark from piers

Potato Cannon.....

YouTube - How to Make a Potato Launcher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykF3TUTI2hU)

[QWould it still be considered "shore" fish or would it now be a "boat " fish???[/QUOTE]

If your not in a boat when you land it, to me it is a shore caught fish.

I have occasionaly dropped an eel off in deep water before paddling my kayak in to shore. Sometime it works, but trolling from the kayak works better.

If your not in a boat when you land it, to me it is a shore caught fish.



From a tournament point of view.....a shore fish must be hooked, fought, and landed while standing on shore. A boat fish must be hooked, fought, and landed while in a boat.....any combination of the 2 is cool......but will probably get you disqualified.

From a tournament point of view.....a shore fish must be hooked, fought, and landed while standing on shore. A boat fish must be hooked, fought, and landed while in a boat.....any combination of the 2 is cool......but will probably get you disqualified.

not to be a #^&#^&#^&#^&, but if you deposited the bait via boat, then it's possible that you would in fact hook, fight and land the fish while on shore.

I guess you could argue that depositing a bait via boat is "hooking" a fish.

Biggest problem in the canal would be the current...not sure little RC boats would survive it when it's going full speed :-)
If you have real RC gear, an extra servo would work fine.

WOW

not to be a #^&#^&#^&#^&, but if you deposited the bait via boat, then it's possible that you would in fact hook, fight and land the fish while on shore.

I guess you could argue that depositing a bait via boat is "hooking" a fish.

#^&#^&#^&#^&....



actually delivery of the bait wasn't what I was responding too.....that is not considered hooking the fish....people fish w/ kites to bring there bait out to fish....not the issue.

I was just pointing out that a boat or shore fish involves more than just where you landed it....it involves where you are actually standing through out the whole process.

now if you were paddling back after depositing the bait and a fish grabbed it before you got to shore and you head to shore to finish the fight....it is considered neither a boat fish nor a shore fish.....its just considered a nice fish....:hee:

Got current? Get planer board.

I've thought about that ;)

Me and my Bro use to do planner boards in the canal when you were allowed to fish herring. It was pretty good, as we could get our baits out in the middle with out killing them. Boat traffic seemed to be a problem at times. I tried it one night with swimmers and got some nice fish, but again it just seems like more crap to carry

at the race we would use balloons when there was a off shore wind:

Me and my Bro use to do planner boards in the canal when you were allowed to fish herring. It was pretty good, as we could get our baits out in the middle with out killing them. Boat traffic seemed to be a problem at times. I tried it one night with swimmers and got some nice fish, but again it just seems like more crap to carry

Back when the bass were just starting to come back, and no one was really fishing the run (believe it or not, in the mid to late 1980s you could have the place all to yourself on a weekday evening) we'd float herring under a balloon, and let it swim wherever it wanted. Sometimes we'd walk them half a mile downcurrent.

Sometimes the herring would take itself way out towards the middle.

You always knew when a bass was about to grab one, because the herring would start going bonkers, swimming around in tight circles, and then, you'd feel a bump and the line would go tearing off the reel (we kept our conventionals in free spool). That balloon would take off across the water so fast that it would throw a wake :grins:

Just get a boat and forget shore fishing.
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took the words right out of my mouth.

Your still young. Another decade or so and a boat will start to look real good.

Sounds like you might want to look to the boys who live below the mason Dixon line for a contraption of this magnitude.

Would be great if you could get a jig out to the deep holes in the middle of the ditch though.

Small radio controlled helicopter with a release clip.

I'll kayak it out as far as you want.Just name the time and place.

So, I have been thinking about a way to deliver my eel out a little further than I can cast when shore fishing, especially in the canal.
It would be sweet to finally be able to get my eel out to jigging distance to drift it right down the middle of the chute.
Any advice???


Good thoughts. I do a lot of early spring fishing in the ice out Lake Ontario fishery. People have asked me if I ever tried downrigging or side planering in our fishery here. I have; and it fails miserably. And I can give you a one word answer about why this is so: weeds.