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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wenzel" data-source="post: 318161" data-attributes="member: 11972"><p>That's a good question. It would depend on the diameter of the line you are using with the pots, and how deep the drop is. The spools hold 300' of 1/4" line, but there are super lines out there with smaller diameters that would enable someone to hold more than 300' on the spool. </p><p></p><p>With a half-turn of the handle in the counterclockwise direction, our systems are designed to allow the spool to release. If you are dropping an anchor, you would get a "free spool" drop. I can check with the person who shot the video up in Alaska, but my guess is that he simply released the spool and unwound the line off the underside of the spool as fast as he pulled it off and probably collected it into a 5 gallon bucket. </p><p></p><p>I believe in Washington State, the recreational fisherman limit is 2 pots per person or 4 pots per boat max - not sure for Alaska or other states. So a day of crabbing would consist of probably pulling and dropping 4 pots every couple of hours. Not like the big commercial guys on TV, obviously. There are smaller motorized pullers on the market, and our systems weren't originally designed for pot pulling - but that obviously hasn't stopped people from using them for things other than anchoring their boat. I've got video coming of a guy who uses his smaller GCJ unit like a hoist on the back of his ATV hitch to hang and take down his lock-on tree stands for deer hunting. People amaze me at their ingenuity.</p><p></p><p>Back to crabbing, we have requests from guys in Maryland who catch blue crabs by tying chicken necks over 1,000 feet of line and want side plates adapted to the spools to wind more line on the spools - chicken necks included in the wind-up! After the line lies at the bottom of the ocean for a while, the crabs keep munching away while the line is slowly wound onto the spool and basically let go of the chicken neck right at the boat/water's surface, where they just scoop them up with a net. I personally want to head to MD and see this firsthand (and mow down on some fresh crab! mmmm).</p><p></p><p>Let me know if you have any other questions!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Wenzel, post: 318161, member: 11972"] That's a good question. It would depend on the diameter of the line you are using with the pots, and how deep the drop is. The spools hold 300' of 1/4" line, but there are super lines out there with smaller diameters that would enable someone to hold more than 300' on the spool. With a half-turn of the handle in the counterclockwise direction, our systems are designed to allow the spool to release. If you are dropping an anchor, you would get a "free spool" drop. I can check with the person who shot the video up in Alaska, but my guess is that he simply released the spool and unwound the line off the underside of the spool as fast as he pulled it off and probably collected it into a 5 gallon bucket. I believe in Washington State, the recreational fisherman limit is 2 pots per person or 4 pots per boat max - not sure for Alaska or other states. So a day of crabbing would consist of probably pulling and dropping 4 pots every couple of hours. Not like the big commercial guys on TV, obviously. There are smaller motorized pullers on the market, and our systems weren't originally designed for pot pulling - but that obviously hasn't stopped people from using them for things other than anchoring their boat. I've got video coming of a guy who uses his smaller GCJ unit like a hoist on the back of his ATV hitch to hang and take down his lock-on tree stands for deer hunting. People amaze me at their ingenuity. Back to crabbing, we have requests from guys in Maryland who catch blue crabs by tying chicken necks over 1,000 feet of line and want side plates adapted to the spools to wind more line on the spools - chicken necks included in the wind-up! After the line lies at the bottom of the ocean for a while, the crabs keep munching away while the line is slowly wound onto the spool and basically let go of the chicken neck right at the boat/water's surface, where they just scoop them up with a net. I personally want to head to MD and see this firsthand (and mow down on some fresh crab! mmmm). Let me know if you have any other questions! [/QUOTE]
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