Anyone use Rubby Dubbies these days?

[keana]

Whilst I am relatively new to boat fishing, I have actually fished for most of my life off the beach. I have recently taken to the sea in my own small boat and i`m desperately trying to learn the `tricks of the trade` as it were.
Back in the "olden days", but not quite as far back as when Knights were bold and all that, I seem to remember that a lot of attention was paid to mashing up old fish skeletons and guts, mixing it up with cereals and cramming it all into onion sacks tying it to the anchor and over it went. Is the use of this Rubby Dubby still common practice or has this been replaced now by more modern practices such as rattling beads and fishfinders etc.
Most, if not all, of my boat fishing will be done off Penarth in the fast flowing waters of the Bristol Channel so it is possible that Rubby Dubbies will get washed out too quickly and therefor be of little use here. Anyone got any views ?

[Portland Pirate]

I certainly like to use a Ruby Duby bag when fishing for Black Bream. I haven't tried it for any other type of fishing round Weymouth area. One drawback of using it is the number of Dogfish that it attracts.
I wouldn't like to coment on its use in fast tidal areas like the Bristol Channel, but I know Steve (Lookafar) uses it in the Solent

[keana]

Cheers PP

[Pross]

Used a lot in shark fishing still to lay a good scent trail but is likely to attract some nuisance predator like doggies! That's got me thinking, I wonder if it would work from pier walls etc. with one of those washing powder bags, might attract a few crabs then though!

[Portland Pirate]

When I am Garfishing and Scad fishing from Chesil beach in the summer, I use one then. I just throw it out into the surf and within 15 minutes the fish normaly arrive. It normaly attracts mullet in as well.

[nimue]

Hi....yeah I actually use the little bags Pross mentioned that come with washing machine tablets when anchored attached to the lead weight. It certainly works but obviously you can't use them in doggie infested waters....actually brought up a doggie attached to the bag once!!!!
Also if you go to a pet food shop you can get free hessian sacks...need a few extra holes added...and free blood from your local abbatoir. Mackerel in the blender (ask wife first then when she says no do it when she's out) bit of bran and some fish oils. I've got an underwater video camera with a tv screen on the boat and boy can you see the fish following the trail. Not the ones you expect either....flounders and gurnard are attracted as well as bass and hounds.
Fishings so much fun when you got the gadgets!!!
Cheers Jules

[Portland Pirate]

Originally Posted by nimue

I've got an underwater video camera with a tv screen on the boat and boy can you see the fish following the trail. Not the ones you expect either....flounders and gurnard are attracted as well as bass and hounds.
Fishings so much fun when you got the gadgets!!!
Cheers Jules

What kind of camera is tit Jules and what depth does it operate down to. Does it have a light source or does it just rely on ambient light?

[keana]

What a brilliant idea. Underwater video. Have you ever filmed a fish actually taking your bait Jules?

[nimue]

Hi Mr Pirate,
No it's got six infra red cells around the lens so can see for about 30 feet even in really murky water. Goes to a depth of 100 ft at the moment but can increase it if I want but with tides and currents i think 100 ft is it's deepest workable depth. most of us have gone to braid instead of monofil for reasons of thickness and this has a cable as thick as about 5mm across so you can imagine how it bows out.
It is a really wicked piece of kit....definately cheating but great for finding new marks that just don't show on the sounder.
Jules

[Fisher 1]

The use of dubby in the channel is a deffo. from me but is often overlooked.
When u consider how the fish find our relatively small baits in the murky waters we fish such as the channel,anything we can do to increase this scent trail and spread it must surely be of benefit,whether that be using dubby or fishing extra rods not only downtide but uptide and when the tide eases accross tide to broaden this scent trail.
I not only mash macky and add bran etc. but also save my used bait which is cut into irregular sized pieces and fed in as the tide is easing towards HW or LW,this technique gave me a lovely 10lb bass last summer and countless conger.
Given that a lot of our fish seem to come on the feed as the tide is easing which also means the scent trail from our baits are not spread as far/quickly the more the importance of a good trail becomes.
I would not put a bag down on the anchor rope though as any cross wind could move the boat away from the trail, better to put a weighted net down on some twine over the bow/stern or gunnel.