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Didnt wanna hijack mikes LRF thread but the mention of Grasdos and then cooking them got me thinking and Paul B mentioning the Net/JIB :
I grew up on states farm in Trinity and spent a lot of my yoof down bouley bay as my Dad had small boat there and was great fishing.
Winter nights a old Jersey boy called Cyril used to roll up in his van with a big square Grasdos drop net with scaffold jib, set it up on the railing , tie on his Shirvy Bag (big onion/bulb bag) and drop it down next to the net , chuck a bit of shirvy in the net and lower it down , shake the shirvy bag and wait , soon there was hundreds of Grasdo's swiming round the net , quick pull on the net rope and lift it up out the water full of nice shiny Grasdos , tip them into a bucket and drop again and again - never seen so may caught.
My Dad made up a rig and we did it for a few yrs , dont know what happened to it but last year me and a m8 talked about making one but never got round to it - wish I could remeber the Jib set up!
I remeber Cyril used to go rabbiting at the weekends and skin the rabbits down Bouley - rabbit guts where a big part of the Shirvy
I was down Bouley one night last year and the end of the pier was bubbling with thousands of Grasdo's
mnhh fried chrunchy Grasdos ;-)
I grew up on states farm in Trinity and spent a lot of my yoof down bouley bay as my Dad had small boat there and was great fishing.
Winter nights a old Jersey boy called Cyril used to roll up in his van with a big square Grasdos drop net with scaffold jib, set it up on the railing , tie on his Shirvy Bag (big onion/bulb bag) and drop it down next to the net , chuck a bit of shirvy in the net and lower it down , shake the shirvy bag and wait , soon there was hundreds of Grasdo's swiming round the net , quick pull on the net rope and lift it up out the water full of nice shiny Grasdos , tip them into a bucket and drop again and again - never seen so may caught.
My Dad made up a rig and we did it for a few yrs , dont know what happened to it but last year me and a m8 talked about making one but never got round to it - wish I could remeber the Jib set up!
I remeber Cyril used to go rabbiting at the weekends and skin the rabbits down Bouley - rabbit guts where a big part of the Shirvy
I was down Bouley one night last year and the end of the pier was bubbling with thousands of Grasdo's
mnhh fried chrunchy Grasdos ;-)