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    Come on then... who's out at the weekend?

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    1 hour ago, jonnyswamp said:

    Myself and 2 others managed to get a few places out of Weymouth on a Bream/Bass trip in the morning

    Pulled my back in work this morning and I'm walking about like a half opened pen knife

    The one trip I could do with being called off......

    And it's on

     

     

    Rather be a penknife on a boat than at work, hope you fell better and have a great trip

    Burnham On Sea 1/9/24

    in Catch reports

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    12 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

    Can't beat an angry Huss!! 
    Well done on the placing as well, what were the prizes? 

    Cash payout on the day but not much as only 8 entered, get your name on the trophy and a tackle voucher at the presentation night. When we joined the club 17 years ago there would be 14 or more boats with 40 anglers fishing comps. Like most clubs numbers have shrunk and now we only have around 8 boats in it. 

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    Burnham On Sea 1/9/24

    in Catch reports

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    Club comp last Sunday from Bos, foggy start and a bit of swell. First mark just produced dogs, thornbacks, baby tope and a hound to me. Moved further down channel looking for more hounds but didn’t find any just loads of small thornbacks, more dogs and some slightly better eels to around 15lb and a cracking double figure huss for my brother. Final move to try a new mark and this did throw up an insize Thornback amongst the smaller stuff. 
    Back on the beach my brothers huss took first and my hound took second and won the pools so not a bad day.

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    West Wales 30/9

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    Posted · Edited by Dicky

    Out on White Waters in Neyland yesterday. Left home at 3am for a 7am sail. 5 of us onboard for a shark trip with 2 shark virgins in the crew. We steamed out around 35 miles off the heads, loads of wildlife on the way out as usual. We drew lots with the newbies getting 4 and 5 but I was confident we would all get a couple😂😂, how wrong was ! There was no wind and a small tide so we were virtually stationary with the baits coming back towards the boat at times. The morning was dead with no runs but once the tide picked up and the breeze increased the chum started working and the baits all sat nicely in the slick. 4 sharks in the afternoon and we made sure the newbies had a fish so unfortunately it meant my bro missed out. On the steam in the Andy made a bit of a detour to where he had seen tuna the day before and sure enough we found a couple of busts. They ignored the popper but couldn’t resist the livebait and we soon had a hook up. We had already agreed to share the fish so everyone had a go on the rod and 45 minutes later a bluefin around 500lb was was boatside. Once revived after a successful release we still had 26 miles to get back to the heads. Got tied up on the pontoon at 9.15 and crawled into bed at 1.45 best part of 23 hours later🤣🤣🤣. The wildlife out there is truely amazing and is a special fishery.

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    Hello

    in Introductions

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    Welcome Matt. I can recommend Valkyrie Charters out of Gosport. They have a couple of the best equipped, comfortable charter boats on the south coast and also find the fish  

    Navionics on Ipad

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

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    23 hours ago, GPSguru said:

    Generally, only iPads that have a cellular connection have built in GPS, so if your iPad doesn't connect to the network, then it probably does not have an inbuilt gps receiver.

    Easy to fix, just get a bluetooth GPS device and connect it to the ipad. Usually the branded names work well, like Garmin, and Bad Elf.

    If you post the model number (it is on the back of the case), it is easy enough to look up.

    Hi Ian

    It's A1822, i don't think it has it as i think it is WiFi only not cellular

     

    thanks 

    Simrad NSS EVO3

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

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    11 hours ago, Gordmac said:

    My Garmin plotter does that, the boat direction comes from the fluxgate compass for the autopilot. Switch that off and the correct direction is displayed. 

    We don't have autopilot but will check to see if there is a setting for a fluxgate compass on the plotter, thanks 

    Simrad NSS EVO3

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by Dicky

    22 hours ago, JDP said:

    Personally it may be something you need to run through with Simrad on the phone. Have you checked no pins aren't bent on cables and connections and all electrical fitting to the radar. Do you put your phone or a speaker of any kind close to the unit as that will cause that sideways crabbing from the first image. Have you done a heading calibrate ?I don't use radar, so have no experience but I have owned Simrad units and use them on several other boats and find them problematic, hence why I no longer have them.

    No phone or speaker near the unit, will look into a heading calibration when next down but manual is crap. Thanks 

    Simrad NSS EVO3

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by Dicky

    We have a couple of Simrads on our Pirate and not overly happy with them at the minute. Firstly can’t get the radar to work and the other issue is the boat icon seems to  crab sideways across te screen rather than point in the direction we are travelling. I have added a direction line yesterday which does at least point in the direction of travel but would be nice if the icon was facing the same way. Pictures below of the icon and the screens when trying to use radar. Any help most welcome, thanks

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    Navionics on Ipad

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by Dicky

    Hi all 

    can anyone help, I have Navionics on my phone and IPad  but when at sea my IPad doesn’t connect to gps but works fine when at home. I even hot spotted to my phone to give it internet but made no difference. My phone always works at sea. I did used to use a smaller IPad with no issues but as can only now have 2 devices on the same account  I took that on off. Could it be that my iPad doesn’t have gps ?

    any help appreciated, thanks 

    First mullet

    in Shore reports

    Posted

    7 hours ago, GPSguru said:

    Yes, it really is the best tasting crab, but not popular here in the uk as compared to browns, spiders are hard work to process.

    The frogs and the Portuguese love them.

    A meal we used to have regular in the Vendee was langoustine with a spider salad (french dressed).

    I'm in the Vendee now, bloody hot out here 

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