reti board
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Landbased & Surfcasting
Forum Description: From rocks or beaches, here's the place for the landbased fishos to share information
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Printed Date: 31 Jan 2026 at 1:25am
Topic: reti board
Posted By: mrqt
Subject: reti board
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2008 at 7:35pm
| Hi All. Does anyone know how to make and use a reti board?? Pio was watching some wairoa locals use one in a river mouth to catch kahawai. Ta. Mrqt |
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Posted By: empty
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2008 at 10:05pm
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i could ring pio and ask him for ya
------------- what happened to the pissing man? |
Posted By: mouthu
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2008 at 10:25pm
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What's a reti board?????????? ------------- Yes it was me, I screwed it up for everyone. |
Posted By: Kenshin
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2008 at 10:30pm
------------- Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger. –Herbert Hoover |
mouthu wrote:Posted By: mrqt
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 8:14pm
| It looked like a small snowboard but on its side rather than flat and somehow used the current in the river to tow a line and lures out. I know that Pio was totally fascinated with it. |
Posted By: tinny fulla
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 11:23pm
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next monday 9pm maori tv, pios show, tangaroa ------------- Only 2 things smell like fish and one of them is fish. |
Posted By: tinny fulla
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 11:24pm
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thats when that episode is on ------------- Only 2 things smell like fish and one of them is fish. |
Posted By: brown
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 11:47pm
| cool, will put that in the memory bank for next week |
Posted By: Merit
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 12:09pm
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Try searching the net for in-line planer boards, sidekickers or sidewinders. Hit the wall when it came to info on "reti' board construction and overall usage. The sidewinders and kickers are about the closest I have found to a "reti" board.
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Posted By: 1000PA
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2008 at 12:33am
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Burnt it to DVD from the telly. The guy from the Mohaka gave a good description of them. I'm also going to make one up to use on the Waikato river mouth. It might just save me some work eh!
Ross
PS - PM me if you're willing to send a blank DVD for me to copy it to.
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Posted By: mrqt
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 8:30pm
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Hi All Many thanks for the replies. Merit, Ta for those google search words very useful.Ross, I'll try to email you PM about the DVD. Trev aka mrqt
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Posted By: 1000PA
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 9:48am
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Got it Trevor, addy sent. Cheers
Ross
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Posted By: Merit
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2008 at 10:02am
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Keep us posted, keen to know the outcome. Love to try this land based technique at the Taipa river mouth, massive Kingy's chasing Kahawai on the incoming tide. Hope build spec's are posted also. |
Posted By: 1000PA
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2008 at 11:39pm
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It's in the mail trevor
Ross
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Posted By: skids_boy
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2008 at 1:44pm
| I just had a friend asking about this as well. The in-laws are friends of the guy that showed them how to use it on the telly and have a stencil of the design on its way. I'll let you know when I get it. |
Posted By: mrqt
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 8:51pm
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Hi
Ross, just seen the DVD... great.
Skids boy...I'll be keen to get a stencil.
Many thanks. Trev
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Posted By: skids_boy
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2008 at 10:46am
| I have received a trace of the reti board and drawn up a diagram and instructions so can email to anyone who wants it. I don't know how to use it, can someone please email me some basic instructions on how to use it once rigged up. I can then include this in the document before emailing to anyone. |
Posted By: halen08
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2012 at 8:24pm
| hi m8 im very keen to post you dvd...please email mailto:[email protected]" rel="nofollow - [email protected] 0275182792 thx u |
Posted By: Naki-Fisher
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2012 at 8:57pm
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Good to see your reading some of the older posts. ------------- The 20lb+ Snapper club No Longer Eludes me Broken with a 12kg new PB Goal for the next 12 months: catch another 20lb+ Snap and watch it swim away Hook a King LB here in the Naki. |
Posted By: chad
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2012 at 9:18pm
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Haha yeah the locals here in Wairoa love em aye ------------- https://www.facebook.com/nzsurfcasting |
Posted By: Naki-Fisher
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2012 at 9:27pm
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Are they any good for kings?, on my mobile to slow to go searching. could be worth a crack at the Waitara mouths. ------------- The 20lb+ Snapper club No Longer Eludes me Broken with a 12kg new PB Goal for the next 12 months: catch another 20lb+ Snap and watch it swim away Hook a King LB here in the Naki. |
Posted By: chad
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2012 at 10:01pm
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It is a board that when held in current pushes out on a 45 digree angle, behind the board (wood) is a set of fishing lures to target kahawai. Kahawai enter the bars, and head up stream and take the lures on there way through, then you haul the rope in attached to the board. This method is mainly used by alders who are trying to catch a feed, it is an interesting concept, and it works really well. Its quite a hard case to watch. Not suitable for kings sorry. ------------- https://www.facebook.com/nzsurfcasting |
Posted By: chad
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2012 at 10:02pm
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Just like casting spinners, only they use the wood and current to hold a lure in place. ------------- https://www.facebook.com/nzsurfcasting |
Posted By: Ahab
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2012 at 2:37pm
| I've also heard of a contraption called a galloping gertie that takes your line out off a surf beach. |
Posted By: EditB
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2012 at 4:00pm
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Are they like the planer boards you can use for trolling? http://www.downtimecharters.com/Ideas/Planer_boards/boards.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.downtimecharters.com/Ideas/Planer_boards/boards.htm With a couple of breakout clips, you could potentially hold several kahawai in the current for the kings... ------------- I do not lie about fishing, I willingly participate in a campaign of misinformation. |
Posted By: Zambezi
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2012 at 4:10pm
My thoughts as well. But it would be such a ***** to setup/maintain/manage. Used to us the same concept when we were kids to hold our baits in place when fishing streams and rivers for bream using ice cream sticks. Was awesome for holding little bits of corn at the edge of an eddy. Some times we could get them close to 90 degrees into the current and then move them out & in by letting line out. ------------- A man’s comfort in life can be measured by the quality of the toilet paper he uses to wipe his arse. |
Posted By: EditB
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2012 at 4:13pm
 ------------- I do not lie about fishing, I willingly participate in a campaign of misinformation. |
Posted By: fish-feeder
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2012 at 4:13pm
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ill be keen for a diagram/stencil forsure.
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Posted By: MrWildabeast
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 12:08pm
Where about was that zambizi? ------------- Here fishy..fishy.... |
Posted By: Zambezi
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 12:14pm
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Amanzimtoti :)
------------- A man’s comfort in life can be measured by the quality of the toilet paper he uses to wipe his arse. |
Posted By: Big H
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 5:41pm
Funnily enough i've got a real old one. Tried it a times and works ok. Basically the outgoing tide and current action take it out. Only caught ky and it was a ***** to haul back in if it had settled somewhat while out. Handy west coast rig before electric kontikis i spose |
Posted By: MrWildabeast
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 8:38pm
Did the same at mana pools  ------------- Here fishy..fishy.... |
Posted By: fish-feeder
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2012 at 7:35am
| ive got hold of a mate from mahia who is going to bring one back up for me to take a pattern off in a few weeks. |
Posted By: krispie_nz
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2015 at 6:42pm
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Posted By: Fish Addict
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2022 at 6:08pm
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Old post I know but as I mentioned reti boards in a recent post I thought I would resurrect this post. The
shape of the reti board we used was much like the shape below.  The board itself was about 800mm long x 250mm high (at the
head end and 100mm high at the tail end) and around 25mm thick. Arris or round all the edges. Two holes were drilled, one in the tail end
which was the fixing point to tie a nylon leader / trace with a lure on the
end. The other hole at the head end was
around 20-25mm diameter. A short length of dowel around 400mm long was shoved
into this hole. You want this to be a
tight fit with about 25mm of the dowel protruding from the 'back side' of the
reti. Two short saw cuts were made where
shown at the head end. We would lock the dowel in place by tying it into position using cord. The cord would be attached to the end of the
dowel furthest away from the board then run through a saw cut, then looped
around the short end of the dowel, back through the other saw cut and tied back
tight to the long end of the dowel. Attach your tow line to the end of the dowel and you're ready to go. We would mostly run two lures each on a separate leader around 4m long. One leader off the tail end of the board and another 3-4m up the tow line. Lures were mostly hexagonal chrome slices but you could use anything really. Saltwater flies / octopus skirts / soft baits would work better than metal slices when the current is slow. The top /plan view would look like this.
This is what I did 50 years ago. With today's tools and materials I'm sure there are better / simpler ways of attaching a wooden dowel or similar at right angles to a flat board. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2022 at 6:57pm
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That's awesome FA and remember seeing one now but never seen one in use. I can't visualise how they work though. A friend was telling me about them recently but your sketch is kind of like something I remember from when I was a kid ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: Fish Addict
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2022 at 8:05pm
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Smudge hopefully the image below will provide some clarity. This is the mouth of the Wairoa River. The angler is standing at spot X and the river is flowing out. The reti board will head out into the current at around 45 degrees. By moving your position and letting more or less line out you can position the location of the lures where you want. The line to the reti board is coloured green The reti board is red The leaders / traces to the lures are blue.  At one time I considered employing a similar system off my boat when game-fishing to give you an even wider spread of lures than you can achieve with outriggers. I'm sure it would work in the right conditions however the increased risk of a cluster f... especially with a small crew numbers put me off. This short vid takes what I was thinking of to another level. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAk1BLR9g9Y" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAk1BLR9g9Y |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2022 at 5:14am
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Ahhh that's perfect, thanks FA! ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2022 at 8:54am
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Equipment in that video is crazy! Too much for me, but an interesting concept. Completely off topic, but I've done a bit of striped bass fishing in that part of the world. Forgot about umbrella rigs. They're bloody effective. Could be good for our game fish. Like a dredge with a hook at the end
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