Through the years I’ve written about fishing spots, fishing methods, and methods to goal sure species. I’ve hardly ever written about particular fishing merchandise.
Years in the past, I wrote concerning the Energy Pole and the way it was going to revolutionize the fishing business. I purchased my first Energy Pole out of the inventor’s storage when he nonetheless had a patent pending on it. All people who fished inshore needed to have a Energy Pole, which, for those who didn’t know, is a hydraulic arm on the strict of your boat that anchors you in shallow water electronically with the push of a button.
All people needed to purchase one as soon as they found out that you would drift into a college of fish, quietly push a button and cease your boat. It solved the issue of anchoring historically, which was loud, bodily and likewise not environmentally pleasant with conventional anchors destroying reefs and seagrass. Then, everyone needed to have two on their boat as soon as they realized that one would anchor you and the opposite would angle your boat.
Years earlier than that, I wrote a few product known as Bob’s Machine Store Jack Plate. Earlier than jack plates, all you would do was tilt your engine up and down with the push of a tilt and trim button. Now, you possibly can jack your engine straight up and down, permitting you to airplane by way of a lot shallower water to get to your fishing spot.
Till now, I feel these two revolutionary fishing merchandise are the one units I’ve ever written about. As we speak I need to let you know a few new product that I feel will change offshore/nearshore fishing endlessly. It’s known as the Bravo ACR LLC, invented and patented by a Marathon fisherman named Erick Bravo. “ACR” stands for Automated Clip Return.
Most offshore anglers use outriggers whereas trolling, kite/balloon fishing or drift fishing. Outriggers use lengthy arms prolonged to the perimeters of the boat to maintain a number of baits separated, hold them out of your prop wash and allow the boat to make tight turns with out tangling baits on each other.
In my view, the fashionable outrigger has simply been reinvented with ACR. As you understand, fishing, and particularly offshore fishing, is a recreation of inches and seconds. Inches and seconds matter rather a lot when presenting a bait to a hungry recreation fish. Earlier than ACR, a captain must yell right down to his first mate, “Hey Larry, take the center starboard outrigger and pull it down. Change your bait – your ballyhoo is trashed!” “Hey Larry, put up your first port outrigger, it’s operating too low.” “Hey Larry, you may have weeds in your port lengthy bait!”
They’d spend all day yelling at poor Larry, who has to carry a number of outrigger clips up and down all day by hand. With ACR, the captain can sit in his chair, wanting down on the cockpit, and may management his total set of outriggers with the push of a button on slightly controller hooked up to a lanyard round his neck – no extra yelling right down to his mate to make outrigger changes.
This not solely permits the captain to have full management of his outrigger system, nevertheless it additionally permits the primary mate to be doing different issues corresponding to rigging baits, cleansing the boat, catering to the shoppers, and many others. Most of all, it saves inches and seconds.
It will also be a game-changer for individuals who fish alone or fish with novice anglers. Earlier than ACR, these captains with no first mates or skilled anglers must depart the wheel with the boat underway to regulate the outriggers whereas trolling, which isn’t solely harmful however time-consuming.
For me, this invention is the good factor because the digital windlass anchor or autopilot steering. I do know there will probably be a day within the close to future when you’ll step onto a pleasant offshore boat and already know the discharge clips on its outrigger system are geared up with an automated clip return.
All of our offshore Ana Banana boats are geared up with the brand new Bravo ACR LLC outrigger system. On one other word, the fishing is nice proper now and will probably be getting higher and higher as we enter springtime.
To guide a constitution with Ana Banana, name or textual content Capt. Joel at 813-267-4401 or Capt. Jojo at 305-879-0564, or go to anabananafishing.com.