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Sea fishing bait boat

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Hi Ben

 

I go beach sea fishing quite often and can cast reasonably far out but imagine there was a little unsinkable radio controlled bait boat, that can take out

the bait/fishing line up-to 500m out into the big blue and deposit it. Who would need fishing boats when you could just get a radio controlled boat of the shelf?

Just thought it might be a good project for the show and keep up the cool work!!! image

 

Sam

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  • in reply to Former Member

    The 24v motor is the expensive piece.

    The body is PVC which can be heated and distorted for the bulge, and the battery is offset to counteract the torque.

    The rest is a simple timer with a means to set (magnet and magnetic switch), and a relay.

    Some designs have a wide tail with multiple attachment points to offset the sideways current dragging it to one side.

     

    It suits the North Island beaches because they are generally sandy/smooth bottomed, rather than rocky like we tend to have in the South Island.

     

    They often have a means of winding the line in but plastic cable rolls would also work.

     

    You could make a scaled down version.

    mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    From what I gather, you link the line to the boat and it takes everything out on a timer, which is programmed according to how far you want to go out.

    Then after the set time period the motor cuts. After a couple hours or so, you reel everything in with the fish.. Its quite remarkable

    Sam

  • in reply to Former Member

    I think its easier said than done, but yes you are correct.

    The line contains a number of baited hooks ie a "long line" and can be up to 2km long.

     

    I have seen small RC type boats used with a release mechanism.

    It required the boat to be 'driven' out, release the line, and then driven back.

    This obviously suited good weather and sheltered waters, while the knotiki devices will handle reasonable currents and waves.

     

    You could adapt the kontiki to pull out the fishing line which is dropped once the motor stops, and a small retevial line pulls back the kontiki leaving the fishing line.

     

    Might be an interesting project if you can find the right motor to use.

     

    mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    I think as a motor you could use one of these small trolling motors

    http://dinghysandoutboards.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/25413.gif

    hooked up to some batteries. I think the hard thing for me will be building the actual body of the boat,

    to make it float and unsinkable haha

     

    Sam