Anchor buoy method for pulling crab and shrimp pots?

I was reading online about using an anchor puller buoy to lift crab and shrimp pots. Anyone try it on a kayak? I don't know how much speed plays into using this method, and I don't know if a paddler would be able to generate the momentum needed to do it effectively. That being said, a crab pot or shrimp pot would only weight a few pounds so I could see it being possible. Thoughts?
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Anchor pullers rely on water resistance to slow the movement of the buoy while you accelerate away.  I think you'd just end up dragging the ball and pot around behind you.

The anchor puller would however give you the advantage of being able to stop part way up and rest. 

-Spot-

Pulling pots is my arm workout.   

Mine are pretty light since they are always empty.

Now that more people are using downriggers, I really believe they are the ticket. Use 100 to 200 pound spectra and a downrigger and I can pull shrimp pots from 500 ft down almost effortlessly (though it takes time). The added benefit is I can store couple thousand feet of line on a relatively small downrigger and nobody else can pull them and steal the contents!  Can't say it's perfected but it worked great for me off my mini-x no less.

Yeah I started thinking about spectra lines versus the conventional thicker line also. The thinner line would also be much better as far as keeping the pots from drifting so you could use less weight to hold bottom and maintain pot position. You're kinda screwed if you have to pull the pot in by hand, I guess.

Even the small Danielson folding crab pots weigh a lot more than a "a few" pounds with a dozen crabs in them. 

You use a manually powered kayak for fishing and now you're looking to avoid some work? 

Well crab fishing is a lot shallower than shrimping from my experience  multiple pots at 500ft down requires something other than conventional method. First where would you put the rope?  Two you better have a hobie because your arm will fall off by the time you retrieve a few. When I lived in WA the deepest I dropped crab pots were around 30ft. But if it was much more than 100 the one to one retrieve ratio on a big spool seems much more efficient.

Even the small Danielson folding crab pots weigh a lot more than a "a few" pounds with a dozen crabs in them. 

You use a manually powered kayak for fishing and now you're looking to avoid some work?

Above the water the crabs weigh (surprise) a little more than the weight of the water they displace. In water they weigh very little. My concern is for shrimping in the PS and Hood Canal and being able to pull pots multiple times from 250+ feet.

If these guys can do it from a canoe. You can do it.



Put some gloves on, eat your Wheaties, and go for it.

I crab down to 100' in Puget Sound and haul up by hand.  Mass and weight are different.  Pulling hand over hand involves pulses of acceleration where mass matters.  To illustrate, drop a 5 gallon plastic bucket filled with water to the bottom and haul it up.  Also the difference in water resistance between a full pot and an empty pot is substantial.

I get the difference between shrimping and crabbing.

Anchor pullers rely on water resistance to slow the movement of the buoy while you accelerate away.  I think you'd just end up dragging the ball and pot around behind you.
-Spot-

Hmmm,  What if you used a drift chute and with an anchor puller and a small float? 
Come to think about it,that'd have to be a pretty BIG float to pick up a crab pot.
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