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Perkons · 09-01-2007, 01:31 PM

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 became heavier and cast excellently; about 95% as well as a lead sinker if the stroke was 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!!

09-01-2007, 01:31 PM	#16 (permalink)
Perkons Junior Fisherman Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 5	Sandsinkers Have to be WET at the moment they are cast. 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 became heavier and cast excellently; about 95% as well as a lead sinker if the stroke was 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!!