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Originally Posted by oneyedeer

Besides doing it by hand have anybody used winch or something to retrieve their pots? Powered?

At the risk of stirring up controversy: Someone emailed me about this and the answer is Yes and Yes. People use both booms and powered pullers and they are both legal.

Booms definitely do make it easier to pull nets and if you want to pull longer hour wise they are not a bad way to go. With a power puller you can stay out there all night long.

Here's my Yak boom setup:



You can read about it more here: http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwevb/s...ead.php?t=6394 Just scroll down the page.

Booms are great I prefer ones that get the rope up high so you can use your weight pulling down and they hold the net up out of the water when your done.

I also built my own powered puller for my skiff, but since this is a kayak board I'm not going to post it. Basically powered pullers have no place on kayaks. That said if you want one for your skiff like Saba says check out the Ace-Line Haulers which run on12volt at about 150ft./minute.

The one I built is roughly twice as fast as the Ace pullers but with the cone nets now available today you do not need the kind of speed we used to.

Good luck, Jim