What is a boom?

gallagher08 · Post by **gallagher08** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:12 am

silly question i should no the answer to

what is a boom?

thanks all
josh

Post by **mrix** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:25 am

Hi josh, Its basically a device that helps keep the snood / hook away from the main rig body and mainly helps reduce the risk of tangles.
cheers
mrix

davethecod · Post by **davethecod** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:29 am

SUMMIT THAT GOES BANG sorry could not resist it

Post by **mrix** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:40 am

SUMMIT THAT GOES BANG sorry could not resist it

yes it also did cross my mind

and expected similer to follow

cheers
mrix

gallagher08 · Post by **gallagher08** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:23 pm

thanks all

Post by **rabbi2** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:26 pm

Its normally a length of plastic or wire that fastens to your trace and stands out so that you hook lengths dont tangle with your trace line.
Cheers keith

Salfordian · Post by **Salfordian** » Sat May 22, 2010 9:24 pm

i'll add a silly question to this thread!

how many of you on here use a boom rig, and when would/wouldn't you use one?

Sorry if it's a daft question, I am new to Sea Fishing and kinda lost without my roach pole lol

Chris

Post by **rabbi2** » Sun May 23, 2010 4:41 am

When casting distance is important as booms can drasticallly cut down you distance, I use them for boat fishing and pier fishing.

I am an ex Salfordian myself and used to cycle from Eccles to Blackpool every weekend to fish the north Pier before it collapsed and that was in summer and winter.
Cheers
keith

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Sun May 23, 2010 12:27 pm

I use long wire booms for boat angling (stops the snoods wrapping round the main rig body) and short plastic ones for beach angling to reduce tangling.

Salfordian · Post by **Salfordian** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:58 am

rabbi2 wrote:When casting distance is important as booms can drasticallly cut down you distance, I use them for boat fishing and pier fishing.

I am an ex Salfordian myself and used to cycle from Eccles to Blackpool every weekend to fish the north Pier before it collapsed and that was in summer and winter.
Cheers
keith

Only just noticed this reply Sorry Keith.. I only got in to sea fishing last summer, when I lived in Eccles I used to fish the Bridgewater canal.
My family had 2 caravans on Newton Hall camp in Blackpool so spent most weekends there myself...

Post by **rabbi2** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:06 pm

Hells Bells!!! I lived in Ellesmere St as a kid then move to Lewis St both in Patricroft. Jumped of Barton Aquaduct for a dare and drank in the Bridgewater, Spinners, Wangy's and that one on Patricroft brige in my ypunger day. What a small world!!!

>:) >:) >:)
Cheers
keith

Oh and born in Hope Hospital

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