Bonking, Sugar and Hoopnetting...

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

Do you think that maybe you bonk because you're overworking yourself? How about letting the nets soak for 15-20 minutes instead of your traditional 5 minutes?

I think you misunderstood...

Do the math... 5 nets, pulling a net every five minutes is 25 minute soaks. 30 minutes if you add travel time from one end of the string to the other.

For instance say I pull net one a 10:00 pm net 2 get's pulled at 10:05, net 3 at 10:10, net 4 at 10:15, net 5 at 10:20, then figure five to ten minutes to paddle back to net 1, take a drink of water wash off the yak and start over. So net one get's pulled again at between 10:25 to 10:30.

You loose time when you get a legal bug but then make it up by paddling and pulling faster, and usually I try to set up the nets so it take about 2 minutes to paddle from one to the next one which gives me three to pull the net and get any bugs I got into the box. If you check out the vids you'll see my pace is pretty consistent, more then I thought it'd be

It's a grind the basic idea is you want pull a net every five minutes or each net twice in an hour. Four hours 5 nets pulled twice an hour is forty pulls. Five hours fifty pulls. No doubt it's a workout but it get's bug limits, and that's what I'm out there for.

Basically you and I are pulling at the same pace but I'm running a longer string of nets then you are spacing them out further in a line down the outside while you bunch your nets together on the inside, and I' hooping longer hours. After four hours I get pretty tired but there are nights where I drop my first net a 10pm, then hoop till the sun comes up then load everything in daylight while saying hello to my friends at the ramp as they are headed out fishing.





You're essentially right... between paddling and pulling, and the time I put in I do overwork myself, that's why I'm running out of blood sugar. I just want to push harder, hoop longer and still feel better at the end of the trip when I get back in and have to load the FND on the truck


Jim