The
classic ‘A’ frame provides the height necessary for a ‘donkey
engine’ to hoist the catch up onto the ‘culling board’. The ropes,
called ‘warps’, are of lengths roughly forty to fifty feet. Each pulls
a ‘dredge’, which is like a rectangular basket, along the bottom.
A single trip along the bottom, lasting from roughly fifty to several hundred
yards, is called a tow. Most boats fish eight dredges at a time.
Photos
and text copyright Jim Patrick and Rob Benchley, 2002
