Pot Pullers

C-Hawk · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: Pot Pullers

Here's a pot puller that will mount onto your Scotty downrigger base.

http://www.blueoceantackle.com/pot_haulers.htm

Kinda pricey, but looks like it would work.

Pat Anderson · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Pot Pullers

We have one of these, an early model Ace Pot Puller - not fast, but it works great, will add years to my enjoyment of crabbing and shrimping...here it is in use:

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:53 am Post subject:

That is faster then the 65 FMP unit I was looking at for the same price.
I wonder if that sale price is Canadian?

dogon dory · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:39 am Post subject: Re: Pot Pullers

Sorry, Folks - Post Deleted By Author

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:49 am Post subject:

Now thats Dogon funny...
I don't care who you are Laughing

Pat Anderson · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Pot Pullers

Yes, occasionally yellow and blue, a bit more gray on top that this pic...

dogon dory · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:50 am Post subject:

Sorry, Folks - Post Deleted By Author

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:49 am Post subject:

Pat, have you been happy with the unit, and more importantly... would you buy it again or recommend it?

3rdbyte, what do you have in the works? I am pretty shameless too... Mr. Green

Mighty Bite · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:27 am Post subject:

I'll be running shrimp pots next year and I'm pretty much like Pat. Gray on top but no logo on the shirt.

I have a new Ace Line Hauler that I'll pull out of the box in the spring and will marry it to 800' of line and 4 or 5 pots. I have a couple of other friends who've used the Ace besides Pat, and they are pretty happy with it. The compact portability and the convenience & clutterless ability to use the Scotty base for it precludes me from considering a faster, bulkier
puller.

Dan is a wit of some magnitude and one of my goals to get over halfway there. Levity floats my boat!

Bearbait · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:54 am Post subject:

Good luck with the shrimp pots in PWS. I had 3 stolen 2 weeks ago. It's been 4 years since I've had any stolen.

Mighty Bite · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject:

Bearbait,

Some days the elevator and some days the shaft! It's a shame that some people have no sense of respect for other folks and their property.
Fortunately these blighted souls are in the minority.

It's probably not a good idea to leave the pots in too long at a stretch and I'm going to be a bit judicious about that. Seems to to me that they don't need to soak all that long if the shrimp are there and if they're not, move 'em. Plus, in a number of spots I'll be fishing close enough to keep an occasional eyeball on them.

Sorry about your losing the pots, gets the hair up on your neck, doesn't it.

DodgeRam · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject:

Hi Pat congradulations on your new boat . I have the same ace pot puller that you have . There is an upgrade you can get , bigger moter, two small pulleys , it will make it lot faster . I believe it will cost about 180. Can. Gary SeaRam

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

Hey Pat, do you still have to pull on the rope or do you just feed it to get it started? Does it do all the lifting or does it just assist?
I have never seen one of these in action but I sure am interested.
They have a special right now, $50 off. Even the wife loves a sale Laughing

SENSEI · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

I am wonderin how strong the downrigger mount will be when you are out there with a 25 to 30 lb shrimp pot, 10 lbs of shrimp, a 8 to 10 lb anchor all being lifted .
sloooooooow is what I have observed.

this season there was another boat out where we were shrimping and he was using one of these electrics. in the time it took him to raise one pot and reset it I had lifted 3 of my pots and reset them using my gas powered puller. we had 375 ft of 3/8 line with 75 0f it being lead line(sinking).we were in 280 ft of water, with about a 1 knot curent.

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks Rodger... Trying to consider all the data... The price is right though...