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West Coast Groundfish Observer Program Manual, Part2 - NOAA

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CHAPTER 5<br />

Stick (Pipe) Gear<br />

Stick (Pipe) gear is usually a piece of rebar (metal stake) or<br />

PVC tube with rebar inside that has string or twine<br />

attached at both ends (See Figure 5-4). Some fishers use a<br />

flexible plastic coated cable with a lead weight attached<br />

instead of a hard stick, referred to as ‘cable gear”. Hooks<br />

are attached directly to the string and baited with squid,<br />

mackerel, or bonita. This gear is often used in shallow<br />

water kelp and surf grass beds (0-40 ft). Usually there is<br />

only one stick per buoy line, but multiple sticks can be<br />

connected together by groundline. The sticks can range in<br />

size from 3-6 ft in length. Hooks per stick can vary from<br />

3-10 hooks. Stick (Pipe) gear is used to target shallow and<br />

deep near shore rockfish, lingcod, greenlings and cabazon.<br />

Figure 5 - 4: Stick Gear<br />

1/30/2004 5-5

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