500 yard fishing rod

[RONVIK]

no need for back breaking casts, take a small boat with you on the beach,then row out with the baited rig, 500yards or more! and drop it over the side row back to the beach and wait for a bite. (use ultra thin braid line on a large scarborough reel).

[treeboa]

not quite the way you have thought, but something i have thought about for years, one of these radio control boats, obviously it would have to be calm weather or you would lose it, i have seen it done in freshwater carp fishing though, in some ways it could be ideal, especially at long range as your bait will get there in perfect condition unlike a hard cast, more especially with soft baits like mussel and the likes

[RONVIK]

How about a radio-controlled helicopter! one could make a fortune flying anglers rigs out to the 500 yard mark.

[treeboa]

having owned a flown one of those choppers i would not try it, the cost alone never mind the handling would make it not worthwhile, especially if it went in , the boat though as i say i have seen used in carp fishing, then again can you imagine winding in say a thornback from 500 yards

[RONVIK]

sometimes reeling in a big cod from 180yds is a work up, let alone at 500.

i have seen thoughs "bait-boat" your on about, im sure in the future someone designs one for sea-fishing, it would be a great help to disabled anglers who want to fish at a longer range.