Those are awesome. We're still working on our design, driven with compressed air. We lost some motivation when the area west of Holly Beach was closed to vehicle traffic meaning we'll have to hand carry the launcher, tank, air compressor, battery, and other accessories from the vehicle to the launching point. Sure, we can still drive on Rutherford beach, but we can easily cast far enough there to catch a steady supply of bull reds.
We still haven't worked out how to launch crabs, which is important when mullet are being picked up quickly by catfish. The way the launcher works, you need to freeze every bait into an ice cylinder with the hook, bait, and sinker in the "ice bullet" and the leader extending out. We can see have a dozen of these pre-prepared, but with the rate that catfish take mullet, the bait needs to be reset much more than a dozen times if fishing with mullet. Crab is much more species specific to redfish, but we haven't figured out how to launch it.
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