Fishing Under Sail

So now that we realize that "to catch fish one has to fish" (our mantra), we have to look at the actual mechanics and needful gear of actually fishing... Now to fish under sail implies movement, so for the moment we will concentrate on trolling and the basic tools involved. The basics are pretty simple: a bait of some sort, a hook, line, and a means of bringing said line in (hopefully with a fish on the other end). So here is a basic, bare minimum fishing kit for a sail boat. A couple of hand lines of different lengths (50 foot and 100 foot) made up of 100# test line which is wrapped around some means of keeping the line controlled and tangle free (a 20-ounce coke bottle works fine, but the plastic yo-yos sold at tackle shops for a couple of bucks work even better). Throw on a big swivel/snap at the end and voilá you have a hand line... Not exactly rocket science, is it? Now you need something to put on the end of the hand line that fish want to eat. There are two ways to go...

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