Web site by: J Bailey Copyright © 2008 Riviera Fishing Products -
Product Review (Page 2)
What’s needed is a standard gunwale mounted gurdy and outrigger, but at the fish stripper a totally new idea, so that it doesn’t matter in what direction your boat is travelling, you can wind away and the fish are gently fed to the inner stripper.
“Well, we’ve got it,” answered Clive when I outlined the problem. A few days later he travelled to Falmouth from Torquay and I saw the gear.
On fitting the prototype to my boat I saw how it had been through many changes, but how the ‘fits any boat’ idea has worked. The stripper and its shape may be the answer that many mackerel fishermen are looking for.
The outrigger looks different as well, using two rollers instead of one, and I was keen to see that working too. However, when we got to my boat, the wind was howling and had swung to SSE and there was no chance of leaving the Helford River, but we did have the chance of trolling along the wider parts of the river and I was much impressed.
I took the boat around all sorts of angles with the line moving around the U shaped,
guide-
Clive told me he now loses very few fish and said: “I had the old traditional system and it was too costly – there were fish flying off and nobody can afford that.”
Above: Downward shot of of the guide in-
Above: The single piece arrangement which enables the skipper to be either side by
just flipping the brackets to the required position with a spanner -
Left: The two wheel outrigger where the end unit can be set at varying positions to accommodate any type of arrangement
The stripper and gurdy are linked together so there’s no need to repeatedly raise the gurdy line to stand between that and the stripper. You can have the wheel on your right or left, it’s no problem to change the arrangement.