"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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OK, I dropped the plastic furling drum (massive and heavy plastic
part) from my CDI roller furling in the water beside my boat at the
dock. Water visibility is very poor and it is kinda cold although I
MIGHT be able to bear it. Water depth is 10-12'. I can locate the
drum with my very long boat hook but could not get it with a net tied
to boat hook or by using a metal loop and really cannot even tell how
it is oriented. It is literally only 1' out from my finger pier
straight down. A diver says he can get it next month although he
already tried but he looked in the wrong place (he didnt listen to my
directions well). ANY ideas to get it sooner? I am sure I will end
up going in the water and diving fro it but really dont want too. I
hate diving deep cuz I cannot relieve the pressure in my ears.

DB,
Once, a long time ago (20 years) a couple of friends were trying to cast
mature trout in Port Canaveral. They found that in water deep enough to
allow ships next to the pier, the mullet would simply dive lower and the net
would close before it got down to them. So my friends used duct tape, 2
rings around the perimeter of the net, to keep it open long enough to get
the mullet. They got so many mullet in the first cast that they couldn't
lift the net. One of them had to get in the water to let the mullet out.
They weren't commercial, just getting a couple for the smoker and adjusted
the plan to just go after loners.
I think you might be able to retrieve the drum with your cast net. Or maybe
a friend has a long handled shrimp net?