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Title: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 14/01/2011 at 19:10
Purists look away now :!

No, first off a dipsey diver is not some middle-aged diver who has sniffed too much dry-suit repair/neoprene glue  :z4

I appreciate it's unlikley, but nothing ventured and all that. If you know what they are and have one or two spare I'm on the hunt for a few in different sizes, especially deepwater models  :wink
Also interested in comments if you've used them by PM please.

Also on the look out for a complete mid to lightweight downrigger (or two) suitable for gunnel mounting.

I'm planning an assault on a couple of 'very big waters' this year and am looking to extend my armoury a smidgen  :cool:

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Ben Dixon on 14/01/2011 at 20:14
Quote from: Hamish on 14/01/2011 at 19:10
Purists look away now :!

No, first off a dipsey diver is not some middle-aged diver who has sniffed too much dry-suit repair/neoprene glue  :z4

I appreciate it's unlikley, but nothing ventured and all that. If you know what they are and have one or two spare I'm on the hunt for a few in different sizes, especially deepwater models  :wink
Also interested in comments if you've used them by PM please.

Also on the look out for a complete mid to lightweight downrigger (or two) suitable for gunnel mounting.

I'm planning an assault on a couple of 'very big waters' this year and am looking to extend my armoury a smidgen  :cool:

H  :z3

Ned
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 14/01/2011 at 21:08
Quote from: Ben_D on 14/01/2011 at 20:14
Ned

No, just broad-minded  :z7
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 14/01/2011 at 23:10
Hi Hamish,
I should have a couple of dipsys in a box somewhere left over from my trolling days. Will have a look tomorrow.

I know you are thinking of using trolled Brownies/char but also consider the Savage Gear 4-play lures. Have a look on Youtube for some videos. Lets just say they have been picking up a LOT of Ferox on a certain water in the West The action is stunning and seems to get the ferox going more than the Pike.

As for outfits, what style are you after? Traditional UK ot American style?
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 15/01/2011 at 11:51
Quote from: Rob on 14/01/2011 at 23:10
As for outfits, what style are you after? Traditional UK ot American style?

I'm working on a hybrid system  :wink Then again, I would  :z4

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 17/01/2011 at 08:51
I took delivery of a 9 foot "Sea Bass" rod at the weekend from a Japanese company called Awa Shima. Rated to 50grhs its going to make an interesting rod for trolling..although its been bought for an altogether more exciting prospect :)
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 17/01/2011 at 09:16
I'm looking at importing a couple of 'specialist' blanks from the US, most probably in the 9'6" range which are up to the job of using dispeys, paravanes and being used on downriggers. We'll see  :wink

Mind you, that means I'd have to build them  :shock

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 17/01/2011 at 09:43
Duck tape, fencing wire and some pliers should see you right :z16
 
:z4 :z4

Sandy
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 17/01/2011 at 09:49
You think :? I wasn't going for anything remotely that 'high brow'  :z7

H   :wink
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 17/01/2011 at 12:43
Pah..drill a hole in the blank and turn it into an "interline" rod, no need for any fittings then..lol.

I do have a source of lure blanks, IM6 (Grey) or IM7 (Bottle green), 9 foot for either 2.5, 3 or 3 oz. They are around the £50-£65 mark depending on the spec. They a well known US blank.
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: James Turner on 22/01/2011 at 20:58
those innerline rods are the bees
there is much less chance of tangles which is handy in a boat running many lines out.....
we use ours as a spare it causes no problems in the bottom stored away neatly
I've also got a lamiglas fibreglass rod which is designed for divers/planers.driggers kind of an all round ros 9 foot in length not too stiff either which is good when using braid

whereabouts you heading to hamish?
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 22/01/2011 at 21:36
Quote from: Pellinore on 22/01/2011 at 20:58
whereabouts you heading to hamish?

Loch Ness, it's just a few minutes from the house  :cool:
Plus I have 'unfinished' business on one or two other big lochs nearby  :z15
Welcome to the forum :z18

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: James Turner on 23/01/2011 at 07:49
oh right thought you were still in dinnet
long way from a ferox loch here in aboyne  :z6
what kind of boat have you got up there?
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 23/01/2011 at 09:22
Quote from: Pellinore on 23/01/2011 at 07:49
what kind of boat have you got up there?

Ahhhhhhh........ well.... errrr.... let's just say that it's a work in progress that she who must be obeyed need not know too much about just yet  :wink

In other words I don't have one yet  :z7

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 23/01/2011 at 09:33
He's going to pioneer trolling fro a float tube.
As a new exercise regime

 :z4 :z4

Loch Ness needs a new monster. :z4 :z4

Sandy
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 23/01/2011 at 09:41
Funny........... I wasn't thinking about a float tube but something else peaked my sense of humour  :wink

(http://i52.tinypic.com/34pi7ok.jpg)

Probably more suited to 'your' part of the world Sandy  :z4

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Ben Dixon on 23/01/2011 at 21:06
Quote from: Hamish on 23/01/2011 at 09:22
Ahhhhhhh........ well.... errrr.... let's just say that it's a work in progress that she who must be obeyed need not know too much about just yet  :wink

In other words I don't have one yet  :z7

H  :z3

Yet..... Working on it!!

Ben
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 23/01/2011 at 22:53
Quote from: Pellinore on 23/01/2011 at 07:49
oh right thought you were still in dinnet
long way from a ferox loch here in aboyne  :z6


Oh no your not ;) I have had one of 9 and one of 11 not a million miles from Aboyne :) Thats if you define a Ferox as a Brown thats turned cannibal...
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 23/01/2011 at 23:04
Hamish,
I cant find the dipsys, or 2 Abu 6501Cs and around £300 worth of lures..not a happy bunny!!

Anyway, have you looked at Paravanes from Storm? I found them better than Dipsys as once a fish is hooked, or the bottom come to think of it, they invert and plane to the surface. GAC have them at around a fiver depending on size.
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Hamish Young on 24/01/2011 at 00:03
Quote from: Rob on 23/01/2011 at 23:04
I cant find the dipsys, or 2 Abu 6501Cs and around £300 worth of lures..not a happy bunny!!

Ooopsie  :z10

Quote from: Rob on 23/01/2011 at 23:04
Anyway, have you looked at Paravanes from Storm? I found them better than Dipsys as once a fish is hooked, or the bottom come to think of it, they invert and plane to the surface. GAC have them at around a fiver depending on size.

I have two Fladen paravanes to try out, I'm intrigued by them  :shock

Quote from: Rob on 23/01/2011 at 22:53
Oh no your not ;) I have had one of 9 and one of 11 not a million miles from Aboyne :) Thats if you define a Ferox as a Brown thats turned cannibal...


I would tend to agree Rob although some might reasonably argue that Ferox are defined by their predation on char.
Ultimately, they're cannibals.

H  :z3
Title: Re: Dipsey divers and down rigger - wanted!
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 24/01/2011 at 11:37
Quote from: Hamish on 24/01/2011 at 00:03
I would tend to agree Rob although some might reasonably argue that Ferox are defined by their predation on char.
Ultimately, they're cannibals.

And thats the problem when Scientists can't agree themselves.

I have one water in mind that produces Char, but you can only fly fish the place...but it does not say you cannot fly fish with very large bait fish patterns :) John Baily famously was taking very large Ferox from Rannoch on the fly, so I wonder...hmmmmmm