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Originally posted by blackhawk961If you figure the cost of your fishing equipment, you can buy fish a lot cheaper than you can catch them! I spend less shrimping than I do fishing and I love to shrimp. Its not work, its enjoyment.
exactly!
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quote:Since you have put tags on some of the poles,get you some couplings,more pvc pipe and glue them together so you will have more lenght.
Originally posted by bigred38Thanks to all who have responded with great advice. Made a newbie mistake by not asking “before” I purchased the 10’ poles. Have already attached my tags to 4 of them but will see if I can remove them and attach to the longer ones I’ll get. One suggestion was for me ( 6’ 7" with really long arms) to get in the water and hold my breath while holding the poles up so that they stick up above the water, even at high tide. Suggested by an unnamed spouse, but take one guess. Ha ha
Double D.
Shoot Great Stuff foam in pvc tops. Get 10 x 10’ sticks of emt. Shove 1/2" emt metal conduit up the bottoms and leave 5’ hanging out. Hammer the end flat and glue and screw the poles at the joint. Then you have 15’ poles that will still float - are stiff enough for a strong tide - and have metal points that will stick in shelly sand bottom. Lots of people use this setup.
J Ford
You can’t catch 'um on the couch!
i could be a little off on this, but i believe that you will find that …cpvc… plastic pipe makes a tighter fit on the 1/2 inch emt. got it at lowe s. it s a better fit. then i pop-riveted it to the emt and wrapped the rivets with electrical tape to keep net from snagging on rivet heads. capped the top. did spray foam in ends for flotation and then flattened the ends for better penetration in hard bottom. also used reflective tape and light sticks on the two end poles, and the center pole. to increase flotation, i slid about an 8 in piece of foam pool noodle on each end. use the pink noodles and watch the looks at the ramp. i used 10 ft emt and a 5 ft stick of cpvc. hope this helps.
10 ft metal conduit, 4-6 ft PVC, end caps and reflective tape. 10 poles $65. Don’t heat the ends tho, be a man, grab a hammer and beat the bottom ends flat. Done. My son made our set.
Miller time,
What diameter is the metal conduit? And how did you securely connect it to the pvc?
3/4 metal. 3/4 PVC. I hammered about 6 inches of conduit flat and in half to the point the PVC just fits over the conduit then hammered the PVC onto the conduit the full 6inches (not coming off), however I put a screw in to make sure. If you’re like me and the hammer is your only machining tool wear a glove or you won’t have skin left on your hand by the 3rd pole.
My PVC / EMT poles were 10ft EMT pushed 3.5 ft into the PVC. I hammered the EMT just a little here and there on the part going into the EMT and
it fit snug into the PVC. I shot some great stuff into the PVC and put caps on them. I cut 5 inch pieces of hardwood dowels and hammered them into
the ends of the EMT, then sharpened them and coated with fiberglass resin. Duct tape the joint between the PVC and the EMT. I used those poles three years, replaced the tape, and gave them to a friend who used them another three years. They would bend but were easy to straighten. I’ve been using fiberglass poles for 6 years now.
just get some bamboo that’s what I used my first year shrimping then if you decide that you like shrimping and you wanna do it every year go ahead and spend the money and get a set of fiberglass poles. Had my set for over 10yrs now never had to bend them back straight or anything all I do is put the new tags on every year
16ft High Tide
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