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Jetdrive
06-20-2013, 03:22 PM
I saw two boats with these at MC the other morning. From what I could see the fishing was just as slow for me as it was for them. I was trolling plugs and spoons while jigging bucktails by hand. I did manage a legal brown along with some stockers.

As for those machines. I see a crowded reservoirs full of boats pulling extreme lengths of copper wire getting in each others way. Effective or not, at what point does it become overkill? Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suhaJFRcJhE

birddog
06-20-2013, 04:48 PM
These are quite popular for fishing salmon after ice out. I saw them on lake winnepesaukee NH 20 years ago, mostly homemade back then.

mtman
06-20-2013, 06:19 PM
the thing is noisier than my 20 yr old rusted out oarlocks--think it would get annoying after a while

Jetdrive
06-20-2013, 06:30 PM
the thing is noisier than my 20 yr old rusted out oarlocks--think it would get annoying after a while
LOL, that is a sound effect I added to the video. I don't know if they are absolutely silent, but I'm thinking any type of machinery is going to make noise at some point. It certainly looks like they can make that sound...:D

Thanks for watching the video. Any comments on the fishing method or the video are most welcome.

dboyd101
06-20-2013, 07:34 PM
Now why hasn't an engineer at Hobie produced an attachment to the mirage drive to do the same thing? :-P

Bicey
06-20-2013, 07:45 PM
That guy is at spruce run fishing for hybrids......he does pretty well.......nice guy too.