OTTER BOARD.

[Poidsear 0]

These were frequently used in the Hebrides but I'm not 100% sure that they are legal although they are very effective on a summer night if you can survive the midges.

[Acuspell 329]

Try using a drift float instead - pop bottle or milk bottle. tie a length of line on it (whatever depth you want to fish the worm or minnow) th eline only wants to be 6 feet really. Toss it in the lake at the windward end, let it drift the length and collect them in the morning - they wll have blown ashore and done their fishing in the meantime - same system can be used for fishing a live mackerel through a tide race for bass......start them from the boat one side of the turbulan water,moor round the outside of the overfalls, collect the "floats" as they come through on the tide.

[Bob Hewitt 5]

This post got me confused! Down here in a fishing port in Devon, an otter board is a bloody great lump of steel that holds the mouth of a trawl net open. Just how you'd catch trout with one of those is beyond my imagination!

[Poidsear 0]

Different otterboard mate