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01-24-2011, 06:55 PM
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I want to build and deploy my own FAD
I have got some ideas for building and deploying my own personal FAD (I plan to call it "iFad") what do you guys think of the idea?
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01-24-2011, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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what is your fad?
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01-24-2011, 07:16 PM
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Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) is basically either a floating or anchored surfaced or submerged structure that attracts fish. Kind of like how a wreck attracts fish. I want to do a submerged FAD that has no surface marking and do it offshore. I think I can build one for a few hundred bucks and at the same time rid my shed of some junk I don't need anymore.
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01-24-2011, 07:37 PM
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how long will it last? and what happens if and when it breaks free?
are you looking to attract mahimahi and stuff and keep the location secret?
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01-24-2011, 08:01 PM
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lobster = striper bait
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
how long will it last? and what happens if and when it breaks free?
are you looking to attract mahimahi and stuff and keep the location secret?
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make friends with the canyon bug comms.
all the mahi you want.  |
Ski Quicks Hole
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01-24-2011, 08:38 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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guys in FL hang 4X8 sheets of 3/4 ply vertically to make 24-40' FADs.
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01-24-2011, 08:42 PM
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I think the canyon is too deep for what I have but maybe something in 150-250' deep made from sealed PVC pipes (a series of buoyant rafts with lots of streamers) and anchored to the bottom via poly rope to a pile of cement blocks...maybe 50' below the surface just inside outside the shipping lanes.
I figure in a few months or so after it gets some growth on it, it should attract something.
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01-24-2011, 09:40 PM
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Location: Libtardia
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this was all the rage a few years back.. everyone was doing it. it was such a FAD...  |
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01-25-2011, 01:36 PM
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Location: Newtown, CT
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Technically you need a permit for the Corp. of engineers, big fines if you get caught and don't have one. Eventually a dragger will probably do it in, or a big ship outside the shipping lanes.
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