jonnyswamp

Ah you know me to well.
I have had Garmin units, followed by Standard Horizon then I had Lowrance and Eagle (re-badged Lowrance) for over 10 years.
I switched to a Simrad main plotter about a year ago and just prefer the menu options and use.
Lowrance/Eagle were easy enough to use but I never liked the operation of Garmin, although my Garmin units were fairly old so maybe I would find the newer units easier.

That looks pretty good 

I fish out of Holyhead in summer and the Mersey in winter

going to be moving my boat to the Mersey next few weeks .i will be tageting cod. Of the charter boat they use lug squid. Pick a few whiting up over skack and try them live. Was reading an article were they had cod in a tank and for some strange reason they seem to be attracted to conger eal skin.

I watch very little TV,  ............. quite like Master Chef professionals with that big mouth git Wallace ..............and watch the kids' cartoons with the grand children 🤣............ normally I am busy on the PC in my office or outside do'in stuff .................

Sired 3 daughters who still live at home

Always used fresh blow lug and did well, but that was when Cod were plentyful though
In our part of the BC it's all down to scent (it's like fishing in a bowl of soup) and I used to think worm always outfished squid, but I'm not so sure now
If we get a decent run this season, I'll try a day just on squid, while someone else just uses worm and see what happens
 

I always used to prefer Navionics, and probably still do for general navigation, but I've been really impressed by the C-Map Reveal charts with their almost photo-like sea floor contour mapping.
From memory Garmin kit only runs their own cartography? Could be wrong on that though, but Navionics and C-Map availability is one of the reasons I use Lowrance plotters, plus the fact that I find their user interface to be intuitive. I also like the fact that they offer a wide range of additional hardware add-ons.

And I knew you'd back him up

And I knew you'd back him up

Speak for yourself Jon 
I welcome any readers wives style photos

Speak for yourself Jon 
I welcome any readers wives style photos

Depends, on how you want to manage your data, but yes, you can create as many SD cards as you want ................
If you want to look at your charts on Homeport then you need to have them downloded form the plotter to a SD card, you can do that process onto as many SD cards as you like ............
I tend to download all my user data to the sd card at the end of each trip, and then analyse it on Homport ....................
My SD card is setup with a folder called Marks which is the master copy of all my waypoints (it is the same as 'my collection' on  Homeport), and another folder called 'transfer' to which all the waypoints and active tracks gets downloaded to at the end of each trip ............... using Homport you can also add some detail into your 'marks'  using the 'notes' tab which will also be available on the plotter. I store info about the wrecks, like length, width, height, orientation, and scour positions
It is always best to have a card in the plotter just in case you need to take a screen dump, just press 'Home' for 6 secs and it will dump the screen to the SD card (the plotter creates a folder called SCRN and the files are .BMP (bitmap) format ..............
 
 

Just been back to the boat with the card and all is good
Would I need to take the card out and bring it home if I want to add more marks, or can I copy it and use a spare so to speak
BTW thanks for your help 👍 

Ah thank you! That was the site I was struggling to remember the name of when replying to Swampy. It's a great resource.
@jonnyswamp, the link that GPS posted has everything you need to know about slow jigging. 👍

Yeah, but I think the point is there are many more that can be used that aren't FC-W registered, your guy there has even mentioned API SG which has been surpassed a long time ago.
Do people that live right beside the sea that may not use their cars that often have to use different oil? No.... And some oils mentioned actually have a quite high molybdenum content that makes it sticky as hell, and coats cams etc for a long time and prevents them rusting....
There are test houses out there that publish analysis results of various oils, that show many specialist oils (FC-W, JASO etc) are identical in every way as the common API spec oil from the same manufacturer.....
I've seen tests showing quicksilver gear oil against a similar common spec oil that was actually worse than the cheapy for anti corrosion.... Also consider there are many engines out there, inboard and outboard, that either were around or their base engine was around before FC-W even existed, yrt you are now expected to stump up extra for "special" oil.
What you have to understand is that oil is big business yet quite a cheap comodity. So any chance they have of making more money through branding and special purpose, they will take it.......
Is there special oil for a drag race engine? No there isnt, and these get a much harder life than an outboard ever will unless you into submerging a running engine!! Using a good quality oil seems far more important than many other factors......
For the doubters, the info is out there, just involves a bit of internet legwork, or don't.... I'm not advocating anyone use anything, as said earler, it's down to whatever they and their wallets are happy with......
 

Looks like you were right Andy, what I'd saved to favourites was the download page, not the home page
Seems the homepage can only be saved in docs ?
EDIT
I've pinned homeport to the taskbar and hopefully moved my marks to my Garmin card (under devices on the top of the page) won't know until I go back to the boat and try it on the plotter

Are you opening the Homeport installer each time instead of the Homeport .exe file itself?

@GPSguru is your man for this question. 

Couldn't make our first day out of lockdown (work keeps getting in the way) so plumped for the Tuesday instead, as the forecast for the rest of the week was shite
My mate (and one of the usual crew) was out on a charter on the Monday fishing up near Clevedon (my intended area on Tues)
After the picture of his 3rd codling, I rang him and spoke for all of 5 secs before he said "got to go, got a bite"
He rang me back after 10 mins or so just after his picture message pinged on my phone showing a plump 6.5 pounder, seems like it's carpeted with them says I
"Well", says he, "I've had 4 and there's one other on the boat"
I went back to my work wondering if I should take the big cooler box, instead of the smaller one for all the cod we were going to get Tuesday
And after receiving another 2 pics showing his total for the day (6 to around 7lb) I genuinely considered the larger one
Anyway, back to our report (can you tell I'm trying to pad it out a bit)
We took the 7.30 lock and headed straight up/over to Clevedon, on a steep bank/reef which is usually a good spot
Plenty of conger, couple of dogs and a few thornies were all we had for the first 2 hrs of the flood, so opted to move a bit closer in to Ladye Bay
We found a parking spot in between the flotilla and dropped anchor, much the same here with one small (8lb ish) ray doing a very good impression of a double figure cod and really got the blood pumping
A phone call from the charter skipper that my mate had been on the day before revealed he hadn't even had a bite on his boat (he opted to go further up channel)
Another move across the channel to just inside Newport deeps resulted in more of the same, so by about 2.45 I miserably pulled the pin and trundled off down the channel to get the 3.45 lock in........Codless
Speaking to the others in the lock, there were 2 codling between 20 odd anglers, although I did hear of a few doubles that had came out (including 2 from Clevedon the previous day) and the charter we spoke to ended up with 6
Shit weather for the foreseeable, but I will return
They can't hide forever
Can they?
 

Couldn't make our first day out of lockdown (work keeps getting in the way) so plumped for the Tuesday instead, as the forecast for the rest of the week was shite
My mate (and one of the usual crew) was out on a charter on the Monday fishing up near Clevedon (my intended area on Tues)
After the picture of his 3rd codling, I rang him and spoke for all of 5 secs before he said "got to go, got a bite"
He rang me back after 10 mins or so just after his picture message pinged on my phone showing a plump 6.5 pounder, seems like it's carpeted with them says I
"Well", says he, "I've had 4 and there's one other on the boat"
I went back to my work wondering if I should take the big cooler box, instead of the smaller one for all the cod we were going to get Tuesday
And after receiving another 2 pics showing his total for the day (6 to around 7lb) I genuinely considered the larger one
Anyway, back to our report (can you tell I'm trying to pad it out a bit)
We took the 7.30 lock and headed straight up/over to Clevedon, on a steep bank/reef which is usually a good spot
Plenty of conger, couple of dogs and a few thornies were all we had for the first 2 hrs of the flood, so opted to move a bit closer in to Ladye Bay
We found a parking spot in between the flotilla and dropped anchor, much the same here with one small (8lb ish) ray doing a very good impression of a double figure cod and really got the blood pumping
A phone call from the charter skipper that my mate had been on the day before revealed he hadn't even had a bite on his boat (he opted to go further up channel)
Another move across the channel to just inside Newport deeps resulted in more of the same, so by about 2.45 I miserably pulled the pin and trundled off down the channel to get the 3.45 lock in........Codless
Speaking to the others in the lock, there were 2 codling between 20 odd anglers, although I did hear of a few doubles that had came out (including 2 from Clevedon the previous day) and the charter we spoke to ended up with 6
Shit weather for the foreseeable, but I will return
They can't hide forever
Can they?
 

Here lies your mistake. You hexed your own trip. School boy error. 
never mind, it’s still good to get out. Thanks for sharing and letting us southerners know it’s not just us who can’t catch cod. 👍🏻

Nice write up and well done for getting out. 👍
Must have been very frustrating, both in respect of your mate catching plenty and you not being out on the Monday, then you being out on the Tuesday and the cod having fucked off... 😤
Can they hide forever? From me they probably can... #whydodogfishalwaysfindmybaitfirst??

Couldn't make our first day out of lockdown (work keeps getting in the way) so plumped for the Tuesday instead, as the forecast for the rest of the week was shite
My mate (and one of the usual crew) was out on a charter on the Monday fishing up near Clevedon (my intended area on Tues)
After the picture of his 3rd codling, I rang him and spoke for all of 5 secs before he said "got to go, got a bite"
He rang me back after 10 mins or so just after his picture message pinged on my phone showing a plump 6.5 pounder, seems like it's carpeted with them says I
"Well", says he, "I've had 4 and there's one other on the boat"
I went back to my work wondering if I should take the big cooler box, instead of the smaller one for all the cod we were going to get Tuesday
And after receiving another 2 pics showing his total for the day (6 to around 7lb) I genuinely considered the larger one
Anyway, back to our report (can you tell I'm trying to pad it out a bit)
We took the 7.30 lock and headed straight up/over to Clevedon, on a steep bank/reef which is usually a good spot
Plenty of conger, couple of dogs and a few thornies were all we had for the first 2 hrs of the flood, so opted to move a bit closer in to Ladye Bay
We found a parking spot in between the flotilla and dropped anchor, much the same here with one small (8lb ish) ray doing a very good impression of a double figure cod and really got the blood pumping
A phone call from the charter skipper that my mate had been on the day before revealed he hadn't even had a bite on his boat (he opted to go further up channel)
Another move across the channel to just inside Newport deeps resulted in more of the same, so by about 2.45 I miserably pulled the pin and trundled off down the channel to get the 3.45 lock in........Codless
Speaking to the others in the lock, there were 2 codling between 20 odd anglers, although I did hear of a few doubles that had came out (including 2 from Clevedon the previous day) and the charter we spoke to ended up with 6
Shit weather for the foreseeable, but I will return
They can't hide forever
Can they?
 

A long time ago I was out with my dad in his kit car......