I'll be honest I'm just kind of afraid of hooking myself. Usually I keep my body as far from a hook as possible and do everything related to hooks with gloves or pliers. I'm going out with some pretty big hooks in a few weeks and I'd rather they go into the sharks I'm targeting instead of me, and not needing to be stressed out when I cast is a big plus.
I do actually have a DJI drone I use for school projects! Maybe I'll rig up a bait delivery mechanism on that thing and use it to do both surveys and casting. Sounds fun.
Take a look at a system used in Australia.
Ooh yes this is excellent! I will set up one of these immediately.
Why? Is everyone else just ok with swinging around a curved needle with a barb on it at the end of a piece of fiber?
I’d say yes. I’d also guess most have, in some form or another, hooked themselves with this flying needle…cost of admission
I've fished on and off since I was 8. Always my biggest issue with fishing and why I'm nervous around hooks. Getting stuck with a hook hurts like nothing else and a barbed hook is a nightmare and I've always just cut it with a wire cutter instead of trying to pull it out. Salmon fishing is nicer because you don't use barbed hooks for em and at the very least it comes out easy and I've targeted salmon a lot more often than any other species.
