Your favourite drogue?

[Joakim]

Need to buy a drogue, the rental boats on the bigger lakes where I'm moving are way too light.
Never had to use a drogue on the smaller lakes back home. What's your recommendation?

[Otter Spotter]

Greys Platinum if you can get your hands on one. Great piece of kit about the £35 quid mark. I have had one for 6 seasons seen plenty use and still solid. Holds the drift on old school 15 foot Leven boats, folds nicely into the supplied waterproof bag nae mess nae fuss.

[Joakim]

Greys Platinum if you can get your hands on one. Great piece of kit about the £35 quid mark. I have had one for 6 seasons seen plenty use and still solid. Holds the drift on old school 15 foot Leven boats, folds nicely into the supplied waterproof bag nae mess nae fuss.

That sounds nice, thanks!

[Billy]

I used to have a Wychwood which was good.

I tied a small plastic ball from a toilet ballcock onto it so that if it broke away it would float to the surface and make it easy to find.
Trouble is that its out Airdrie way now.   :roll:

Billy

[Otter Spotter]

Seems they are still available -

https://www.fishingmegastore.com/greys-platinum-drogue~6142.html

Thats it there but I see you can save up to £10 depending on where you buy it from, GAC (The shop in the link, has free shipping though not sure whether it will apply to Sweden).

[Wildfisher]

I made my own. Took 5 minutes.

A  garden tidy sheet (mine was Black and Decker) +  some nylon clothes rope. Simple, compact  and indestructible.  Total cost would still be under £10 and available from any garden / hardware store.

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[Joakim]

I used to have a Wychwood which was good.

I tied a small plastic ball from a toilet ballcock onto it so that if it broke away it would float to the surface and make it easy to find.
Trouble is that its out Airdrie way now.   :roll:

Billy

Good tip, Billy. I've been looking at the Wychwoods with clamps.

Seems they are still available -

https://www.fishingmegastore.com/greys-platinum-drogue~6142.html

Thats it there but I see you can save up to £10 depending on where you buy it from, GAC (The shop in the link, has free shipping though not sure whether it will apply to Sweden).

Great, thanks! Probably no free shipping to Sweden, but that's OK. Been shopping before at GAC, when the local shops haven't had what I've been looking for.

[Joakim]

I made my own. Took 5 minutes.

A Black and Decker garden tidy sheet + some nylon clothes rope. Simple, compact  and indestructible. Total cost would still be under £10 and available from any garden / hardware store.

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That's the way to go, nice work! I've used an IKEA-bag with nylon ropes, but that looks way better!

[Wildfisher]

That's the way to go, nice work! I've used an IKEA-bag with nylon ropes, but that looks way better!

True Scottish frugality. We are known internationally as being  miserable bastards.    :lol:

It could be improved by adding another rope to one corner that  could be pulled to collapse it, but I have never bothered with that.

[Fishtales]

A big sea swivel helps between the four corner lines and the tow line so the drogue can spin if it wants to without kinking the line. I used one of the big builders bags.

This guy uses them to grow vegetables in

http://www.permaculture.co.uk/readers-solutions/reusing-builders-bags-vegetable-beds