KennyPowers

19 hours ago, JonC said:

Sorry @Andy135, but you know @KennyPowerswas hiding up along the starboard walkway all day, well….he was trying but it’s not so easy with a strap. 

That was a 28lb conger but because of offshores tight budget it was resized to 5lb🤣🤣🤣

On 7/20/2022 at 6:43 PM, Saintly Fish said:

That's such a silly thing to say. Most boats are solidly built, and not all of them are abused, infact most are highly looked after which is why they command for their age a relatively high price. Any potential buyer would have a survey done anyway (except @KennyPowers). 

I didn’t get a survey done on my Arvor and it’s a great boat, unfortunately people like to lie about service history to sell boats.

20 hours ago, GPSguru said:

Both JonD and myself are using Garmin panoptics transducers that have a built  in AHRS compass ( Automatic Heading Reference Sensor i.e. a magnetometer sensor), so yes, I can fully understand your need for this type of functionality.

When we are drifting it displays the boat icon in the correct orientation, irrespective of drift direction, which for me is quite helpful when drifting wrecks

 

Yes that’s exactly what I would want.

My current finder is a Dragonfly-5

42 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

If boat orientation is important you'll need an electronic compass/GPS sensor (e.g. the Lowrance Point-1 GPS module). Regular units like Jon's don't actually have a way to know the orientation of the boat - they infer it from the GPS heading, but that only works when moving. For example, you could be drifting banks with the bow pointing across the tide, but without the compass module the plotter will show your boat pointing downtide.

Ahh interesting to know, yes it is quite important to me, ironically my older plotter is very quick on direction, I will need to look into a package I guess, I’d like to think my in hull transducer will work on another raymarine product, I don’t want hassle I want plug and play.

I like the one Jon c bought, only issues with it I see was inference due to transom mount transducer which I wouldn’t use anyway and if I’m honest it did seem a little slow on positioning, it might sound silly but I rely on the direction the boat is facing via the plotter for positioning myself on banks etc, sometimes it didn’t seem to catch up, and as a brand new unit I wouldn’t expect it to freeze up and need rebooting, although having said that johns fingers are so big that when the average person hits one button Jon hits 4 so it could be that.

10 hours ago, Andy135 said:

Do you already have the transducer installed? If so, and assuming you want to keep it, the brand of plotter may be dictated by compatibility with your transducer. What transducer is it and what make is your existing plotter?

Also, what's your reason for upgrading? This will also influence the choice of brand to upgrade to.

My original plotter is outdated, a lot of the buoys have been moved in river and do not show on my plotter in the correct locations, it’s also a bit clunky and lacks options, my current transducer is raymarine.  

6 hours ago, GPSguru said:

These days they are all very similar because they all use the same technology !

It all comes down to which one you like the feel and smell of.

Personally, I like Garmin, and I have had Garmin products for years that have never let me down. I like the look of Raymarine, but I always felt the operating system was clunky and cumbersome, however, they might have changed all that now as the new operating system across the board for Raymarine is 'Lighthouse 4' which has had good reviews.

 

You are spot on with that, I watched a YouTube tutorial on the axiom 7 and the operating system was simple but fast, also was really customisable.

Just now, KennyPowers said:

 

Like the look of this one.

6 minutes ago, KennyPowers said:

Looking to upgrade my charter plotter in the future, looking for opinions on best models/brands etc, being drawn to the Garminge but would like to see what people have, I will be using a through hull transducer.

Looking to upgrade my charter plotter in the future, looking for opinions on best models/brands etc, being drawn to the Garminge but would like to see what people have, I will be using a through hull transducer.

19 minutes ago, JonC said:

Filthy has been try to get rid of those lures for ages, not even at discounted price could he shift them 

Well I’d give them to you but the fact you can’t catch fish with bait leaves me thinking they wouldn’t be much use🤣🤣🤣

Just now, JonC said:

I hope the appropriate duty is paid on the cash prize? 

Just like my business I’m tax exempt🤣🤣🤣

6 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Nice one @KennyPowers. What was the weight?

It was  just shy of 5lb but because of people like Jon C putting lead shot down there necks when they weigh fish it was all done by length, 58cm to the fork, 61cm won it, it was a pretty poor day all day, raining most of it, but it was a good crack!

On 5/19/2022 at 6:37 PM, Andy135 said:

Gas then.

Absolutely correct!! Everything we had required gas to process it and Jon forgot it! He did however musta a bacon roll by leaving the bacon on the windscreen for 4 hours.

Everyone ask John how many cups of tea he made, we had everything bacon, eggs, milk, tea bags, 5 offsure points if you can guess what we didn’t have though🤔

7 minutes ago, JonC said:

I recon you will be trying your hardest to brake your current plotter, I recon one of them 8 oz power casts through the screen would do it. 

2019 2020 and 2021 uk boat casting champion 

The Garminge was excellent, mud in HD, sand in HD, when it froze up and needed rebooting even that happened in HD, I think I’ll end buying that one after my plotter packs up, until then I’ll be looking at mud in standard definition🤣🤣🤣🤣

It was a good day, its good fishing waters we haven’t been before not necessarily always the best for actual catches, we also clarified a position we was also given called the Kirbys we actually sat in wrong spot then realised all the other boats were sitting in a line further up, that produced plenty of small bass and smoothies, forever a learning curve.

This is how Jon saves money on boat fuel btw🙄

50% of Jon’s pictures aren’t us or his boat, he’s using me for clout on the international Facebook circuit to gain likes, I also caught a 50 pound tope on Jon’s rod which came off before it got to the boat, it was definitely 50 pound though because that’s what bait cost and the pain was the same.

Me and Jon went fishing today on his boat, we went everywhere with not great catches, but at the end of the day I whooped him with a 12lb skate and 6lb bass Jon will no doubt argue these weights but I was reeling them in so I know the weights were true, can everyone congratulate Jon on actually leaving the black water, I have pictures but I find resizing them tedious, Jon can do it for me when he argues the fish actual weights🤣🤣🍻🎣🍻🎣🍻🎣🍻🎣🍻🎣

Jon c is leaving the safety and comfort of the black water tomorrow to engage in real fishing in real waters, please like this post and pray for Jon c, #makeitbackjonc #gogetembigguy #prayforjonc