Saintly Fish

You have probably done enough for the moment, however, a detailed visual inspection of the engine and keeping both the engine and engine bay very clean  will show up potential faults quicker when you have that last look in the engine bay before you leave the boat ................

A Saturday banger

that was a grate escape.

Just what I uttered 

Wow! That's a lucky, lucky biker!

You’ll still be under house arrest, why bother. 

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Homeport also used to support active captain, but I think they removed the support as active captain can be quite flaky ...........
All you need with Homport is to copy your inbuilt plotter chart onto a SD card and then you need an SD card reader on the PC ........... then your PC effectively becomes your plotter. After each trip I always save the 'user data' to the sd card and then analyse the active track on homeport .............. Also your sd card becomes a definitive backup of your plotter marks ..............
Homeport is here ............... https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=7263

Any other members interested in this potential boat meet/social event?
if yes please cast a positive vote. If not please cast a NO vote. 
This helps us gauge interest. 
many thanks

Just a follow on from Andy's post on side imagining (don't seem able to post comments on his post). There is a heap of things you are missing out on in regards to that topic, some might greatly influence the way people purchase transducers for range and fish finding capabilities. Andy only mentions the 455-800 but there are also 1200 and 260 frequencies that are far more capable in both fish finding and structure finding, with the 260 scanning right out to 200m each side with good results on structure finding.
After buying a Garmin 8410 simply because of the far higher res screen in comparison to my last 12 hds carbon Lowrance, which I was initially quite disappointed with. I watched all the Garmin free online seminars but still felt I was not getting the most out of this unit. I came across an online course and decided to to take a gamble and pay the coin to see if I couldn't fast track the knowledge base to getting more from my sounder and especially the sidescan side of things. 
The course had a fathers day special and my wife bought me the online training. I found it very worthwhile and can reference back over any parts at any time. The training is broken into modules and any response to questions has been very prompt. I looked at it in a couple of ways, firstly getting value out of the expensive electronics on my boat. Second fisheless trips still cost money, so being able to use the electronics to their best to find fish should soon offset the cost of the course.
Anyway here's the link, part one might actually be free https://www.fishsmarter.com.au/courses/sounder-skills-1/
I found it worthwhile and its saved lots of wasted hours experimenting with settings, hours that I can now spend searching down my target species. I fast tracked and problem solved initial and now have an increased confidence on the water. From memory there are around 40 modules.

Again, if you ask @suzook12 he has just set up some kind of trade deal with a battery company. He might be of help again? 

"It's a boy!" I shouted, tears rolling down my face. "I don't believe it. A boy!" It was at that moment I decided I'd never visit Thailand again.

Got offered sex today, with a 21yr old lady. In exchange, I was supposed to advertise some kind of bathroom cleaner on twitter I declined cause I've high moral standards & strong willpower. Just as strong as Ajax, the super strong bathroom cleaner. Now available scented with lemon.

I didn't think he had that many friends, must have a big family

You’ll still be under house arrest, why bother. 

Jon beat me to it 👆🏻

Luke, I don't usually turn on a fellow Taff, but they are terrible 
1/10 for effort

Typical JonC humour 3/10

Small cod use worm baits with squid. 
 
However, on a number of occasions I have caught more cod than other boats and most on the boat using a bit of bluey as well. This works especially well when the sprats are in the channel. The 4 doubles I caught last year were all on worm/Squid/bluey.
 
for the big girls, nothing beats a live whiting. Fish it on a sleeper rod downtiding, especially over slack water

i have cought cod on mackrel south of the nab

This is true, it has been noted that the right honourable gentleman has been most gracious with his verbiage, which indeed makes the house a most pleasurable place to be .............may the extending of the olive branch, long continue ..........😇😍🤣

What books are best for cod then? The Compleat Angler? So long and thanks for all the fish? The Codfather??

Don’t start Ian, I’m trying to be grown up over here. 🤐

Glad it's not mine. They loaded it sideways...