09-02-2007, 06:06 AM
I was fishing with the sandsinkers yesterday on the jetty in Avon on the Sea in NJ and discovered something interesting:
If I reel in to refresh the bait (or sometimes to bring in the fish) and leave the sandsinker on the ground, even for a minute, it doesn't cast as well. Probably this is because the water between the grains of sand drips out and air gets in.
On the other hand, if I dip the sinker in some water (yesterday this was a puddle of ocean water on the surface of the jetty) it becomes heavier and casts excellently; about 95% as well as a lead sinker if the stroke is right. It has to make a bigger arch over like a medieval catapult.
P.S. I almost caught a pesky young brown cormorant who was diving after my bunker bait. After that I had to fish in a different area from where the nincompoop bird was hanging out. Teenagers!!
Perkons
If I reel in to refresh the bait (or sometimes to bring in the fish) and leave the sandsinker on the ground, even for a minute, it doesn't cast as well. Probably this is because the water between the grains of sand drips out and air gets in.
On the other hand, if I dip the sinker in some water (yesterday this was a puddle of ocean water on the surface of the jetty) it becomes heavier and casts excellently; about 95% as well as a lead sinker if the stroke is right. It has to make a bigger arch over like a medieval catapult.
P.S. I almost caught a pesky young brown cormorant who was diving after my bunker bait. After that I had to fish in a different area from where the nincompoop bird was hanging out. Teenagers!!
Perkons