On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:06:24 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:39:30 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Oct 2, 3:26?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
I like that feature, but I don't see it in the West Marine
catalog.http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?..._imageViewsInd...

No reference to a fish cannon at your link. ???

But it may be similar to a "herring charge". When my granddad served
on destroyer escorts in the British Navy, WWI, detecting a German U
boat always resulted in fresh fish for dinner. In his personal log
from the war, he describes how the mess hands would run out on deck
with long handled nets during depth charge runs and scoop up huge
quantities of stunned fish.

Sometimes you hear about rednecks supposedly doing some catfishin'
with dynamite. Probably 99% urban legend, but the results would be
similar to Grandpa's depth charges- if on a smaller scale.


Chuck, you have a big boat, but you can't afford new glasses? Look at the
picture, directly above the guy in the yellow helmet. It's a fish cannon.

I am not in the mood to explain simple things tonight. Get with the
program,
please.

I have no idea what a fish cannon is unless you are talking down
riggers.

Oh no. Not you too! :-)

Well, I've never heard of a "fish cannon". It looks like the type of
artillery that uses a rocket powered shell of some sort, but why they
would call it a fish cannon I have no idea.

Got a reference to fish cannon?