Pulling mooring ball for winter, why?

[nightrider]

spring fisherpersons (how's that for PC?!?) fish close to shore as that's where the fish are. Fishing in 4 or 5 feet of water, close to shore, is common. Why couldn't a mooring ball owner run a sinking line from the mooring along the bottom towards shore and have a weighted end laying in 4 feet of water. Wouldn't that be just as easy to retrieve as a winter jug 4 feet under the water a hundred feet from shore?...and it wouldn't be a fishing line catcher.

[Merrymeeting]

Originally Posted by nightrider

spring fisherpersons (how's that for PC?!?) fish close to shore as that's where the fish are. Fishing in 4 or 5 feet of water, close to shore, is common. Why couldn't a mooring ball owner run a sinking line from the mooring along the bottom towards shore and have a weighted end laying in 4 feet of water. Wouldn't that be just as easy to retrieve as a winter jug 4 feet under the water a hundred feet from shore?...and it wouldn't be a fishing line catcher.

I changed my mooring chain a few years ago as it was getting thin. I kept the old chain in a bucket and the above is what I now use it for. I tie a rope to my new mooring chain and head toward shore. Then I tie the rope to the old chain and use it for the final ~25'. The chain pulls the rope to the bottom out of harms way.

I drop the end of the chain in about 3' of water near my shoreline and pull it up with an iron rake in the Spring.