Electric pot pullers?

[hunthard]

Anybody use one of these, thinking about getting back into shrimping. My boat is already set up for Cannon down riggers. Thanks in advance.

[fishngamereaper]

What are you looking at. I have an Ace line Brutus. About 12 years old and still going strong.

[RB]

What are you looking at. I have an Ace line Brutus. About 12 years old and still going strong.

 

Me too love it!

[hunthard]

The Ace is the main one I was looking at. WOW 12 years, i'm going to go ahead and assume you are pretty satisfied with it.

[Mfowl]

Ace line hauler is great. Small and stowable in your boat. It's easy to pop your DR off and put the Ace on and go get you crab pots when salmon fishing as well. However, compared to gas pullers they are slow as molasses. Harbor Marine had a shrimping seminar today (4/15.) They were advertising great deals on Ace line haulers on the Outdoor Line (710am) this morning for the seminar. I'm not sure how long that deal is going on though.

[huntnphool]

 I've owned both electric (Ace) and gas (Honda) I'll stick with gas.

[rasbo]

I enjoyed pulling them by hand and never bought one,but I did use a Honda puller on a friends boat and it was awesome..

[dscubame]

Davit's are the way to go.  Especially with shrimp since typically the pots are down so far.  Been using them for years and won't go back to hand pulling.

[fishngamereaper]

The Ace is the main one I was looking at. WOW 12 years, i'm going to go ahead and assume you are pretty satisfied with it.

Very happy with it. Gas is faster, but also louder and has its danger issues. I know a guy that lost a digit with a gas puller. The Ace pulls fast enough to keep the shrimp in the pot, is quiet enough to have a conversation while pulling, and is pretty safe with a bunch of kids on the boat.  And for a small  motor its pretty powerful, Ive snagged derelict pots with it before and it will pull two pots no problem.

[Encore 280]

The one bad thing about the electric pullers, you have to keep your main motor running or you'll run the battery down and be DIW. I have the EZ Pull and like it.

[Jerome]

I have the ace and love it, i did install a second battery and a perko switch to run the hauler and downriggers off of. 

[hunthard]

Thanks for the feed back guys, I'll check out the Ace puller,

[WAcoueshunter]

I have an older Ace that is still going strong. But got a Scotty last year and now prefer the Scotty.

[NRA4LIFE]

I've had the Scotty now for 4 seasons and love it.  Yanks up heavy crab pots with no problem.  My buddy has an Ace and that thing works well also, maybe even a bit faster than my Scotty.  I thing either would be good.  Never shrimped though so can't help there.

[Snowgoose1]

Have a Discovery Bay Power Hauler  2.3HP, 90:1 gear box worm drive.  Our pots are offshore pots and exceed 60 pounds which don't move in the tidal swings.  We went to the power hauler because it's easy to get the pot higher than the side of the boat.  Then we only have to swing it in and lower it.  Works the same way in reverse putting it out.  The Power Hauler is very strong and has a rating up to 250 pounds.  We have had it for three seasons with no issues and it saves our backs.  It's very easy to hook up and take off the boat leaving only the bracket along the side/floor base.

[SpringerFan]

Have a Discovery Bay Power Hauler  2.3HP, 90:1 gear box worm drive.  Our pots are offshore pots and exceed 60 pounds which don't move in the tidal swings.  We went to the power hauler because it's easy to get the pot higher than the side of the boat.  Then we only have to swing it in and lower it.  Works the same way in reverse putting it out.  The Power Hauler is very strong and has a rating up to 250 pounds.  We have had it for three seasons with no issues and it saves our backs.  It's very easy to hook up and take off the boat leaving only the bracket along the side/floor base.

I have the same but in 1.8hp.

[SERVOSKI]

I have the Ace puller.  works great for crab pots.  It has some trouble pulling heavy shrimp pots, the rope slips in the sheave(even with multiple rubber strips in the sheave).  If I had to do it again I might try the Power Hauler.

[h2ofowlr]

I enjoyed pulling them by hand and never bought one,but I did use a Honda puller on a friends boat and it was awesome..

I call BS on this one.  Maybe for crab.  lol  For shrimp, no way.  Dropped 4 pots and after pulling the first SOB up from 350' I was ready to leave the other 3 on the bottom.  Luckily some guy came buy and pulled the other 3 for me with his pot puller.  I was one happy guy after that.

[Wanderer]

me too.   first time shrimping we pulled the pots by hand.  went and bought an electric puller the next day....

[JKEEN33]

Dad and I pulled them by hand for two years. Not a ton of fun, but doable. We do have the ace puller now and like it a lot.

[Wacenturion]

I went this direction..........the actual brand of davit I used and the same exact winch (picture is from someone else's winch).  Had a special adapter made like the one shown to attach to the davit.

[dscubame]

Your back and biceps thank you.

[Stein]

I pulled 4 pots several times a day for 14 years and just built my own puller from an eBay wheel chair motor.  I'll post a video if it works.

[gasman]

Buddy made one from a camper jack motor. I got a slideout motor to build one, nut right now using my gas puller.

[Stein]

My homebrew puller worked great, just need to tweak the hands free part a bit.  It pulls faster than commercially available and I have less than half the cost into it.  I could hook it to 18 or 24V and really get those pots moving.

[h2ofowlr]

I just went and bought the Scott Line Puller.  I think they had them at Costco for $368.

[lokidog]

For what it is worth, Ace Line Hauler comp  any has an amazing warranty.  I have had two motors replaced by them with no questions asked. I've now got a Safety Hauler which works well, thankfully I did not have to pay for it though....  It does require a much different mounting (more complicated)system than the Ace.

[dscubame]

The best warranty is one you don't need to use.

[KFhunter]

Dad just bought a Thunderjet Alexis with partial hard top and offshore mounted O/B and kicker, we plan on getting it in the salt once or twice a year *hopefully* and I'd like to put a pot puller on it.  It's got electric Scotty's on each rear corner, would the scotty pot puller be ideal to slide in the current DR mounts and plug in since it wouldn't be used very often?

Or better to put a davit off the hard top? 

[WAcoueshunter]

Dad just bought a Thunderjet Alexis with partial hard top and offshore mounted O/B and kicker, we plan on getting it in the salt once or twice a year *hopefully* and I'd like to put a pot puller on it.  It's got electric Scotty's on each rear corner, would the scotty pot puller be ideal to slide in the current DR mounts and plug in since it wouldn't be used very often?

Or better to put a davit off the hard top?

Go Scotty. Super easy with that setup.

[Fishstiq]

Dad just bought a Thunderjet Alexis with partial hard top and offshore mounted O/B and kicker, we plan on getting it in the salt once or twice a year *hopefully* and I'd like to put a pot puller on it.  It's got electric Scotty's on each rear corner, would the scotty pot puller be ideal to slide in the current DR mounts and plug in since it wouldn't be used very often?

Or better to put a davit off the hard top?

Go Scotty. Super easy with that setup.

...and if you're interested, I know a guy who is putting a Scotty puller up for sale.

[KFhunter]

possibly 

[Tenkara]

I just went and bought the Scott Line Puller.  I think they had them at Costco for $368.

I was looking at those at the Tumwater Costco today.

[Fishstiq]

I just went and bought the Scott Line Puller.  I think they had them at Costco for $368.

I was looking at those at the Tumwater Costco today.

That's a smokin' deal