Proto #2-3

Since I’m kind of in a limbo between seasons and runs, I’ve revisited the “Super Gig” idea and made two more prototypes, moving my center of operations (I will call it ALPHA CENTRAL) to the living room so I can multi-task (i.e., watch baseball) while I tinker.  I’ve created two more devices that might aid in filling the bucket/boat quicker.  I’ve been reading reports of the crabs starting to float in the Haulover Canal more often and that gets me interested in going up there for a night of nonstop action.  That action- packed evening will ultimately entail gigging flounder, which brings me to this post about prototype #2 and #3.  I’ll start off with proto #2 because #3 isn’t at all exciting and is moreso intended to show off its masterful design for gator hunting this fall.  For Proto #2, I stuck a 50 watt halogen light in a 1 ½ PVC Y with the light in the part of the Y that aims at a 45 degree angle. Then I put a coupler to accept a threaded plug in the portion of the Y that is straight inline with the pole.  (The pole being a 7 foot  ¾ schedule 40 aluminum pipe with the power cord coming through it.) See Pictures!  I’m not tooting my own horn or anything but this one’s a great design.  The way this is set up, I can attach any type of device on the tip that I want.  The two that I have set up now are a flounder gig tip and a gator dart deployment tip.  Other devices to come later this year will be the frog gig, the bang stick attachment and a gaff hook deploying mechanism.  Proto #3 is pretty lame; it’s just an underwater light essentially. It’s a red 20 watt halogen light bulb in a straight 10 foot PVC pole.  The intended use of this will be used to stick into the holes gators dig in the banks of the river and check to see it they’re home or not.  That’s it for that one.