GPSguru

Since moving the panoptix transducer from the forward scan position to the down scan position, a rooster trail has been an issue at speeds above 28kts. The problem is the usual issue of fast water leaving the transom and being forced through the transducer bracket channel, which creates a hosepipe effect. Some time ago I constructed a piece of thin plastic to extend the original Garmin spray deflector. This was successful but the plastic would fold away at higher speeds (35kts). Today, the plan was to recreate the Garmin spray deflector, but longer and with a slight bend in it to deflect the water flow smoothly. I had some 316 sheet to hand, maybe a little on the thick side at 1.5mm, the original Garmin plate is 0.85mm. An hour or two with an air die grinder, a bench green grit wheel, polisher, and the job is done. Garmin on the right and my replacement on the left The new plate fitted in it’s correct position.

The first one ( an original soon after they were released) lost the ability to recognise any game cards. I changed the card controller but that didn't fix the issue. The second one went to a blank screen and only a very poor display when connected to the smart TV. I deemed it to be beyond economic repair.

Another game that I use to play on the switch was Rayman and Rayman Legends. Quite an enjoyable game with good game play.

I have got some of those, and they are very good. We have also used them for Bass livebait fishing, and that works very well indeed. Once the loop has broken free, they slide easy and are also easy to take off the line if you need to.

IIRC Zelda is only available on the ‘switch’ platform. We have had 2 switch consoles here for the grandkids and both suffered terminal issues. Not the most reliable console in the world. However, I really did enjoy playing Mariocart 8 on them.

🙄Call of Duty, you old fart 🤣

He doesn't play too much in the way of games, mainly farming simulator ( his farm is worth several billion 🤣) and CoD.

He doesn't really ‘do’ any social media, only on ‘steam’ playing games wiv his mates.

I usually fillet round fish on the boat, Kyle helms whilst I fillet, but flatties require more care, so I do them at home 😉

At 7:00 am the temp here was 10C, so a little chilly. Kyle is also a carrot top, so avoids the sun ! 😂

Excellent weather and sea conditions were forecast, so it was to be a day at the Skerries. With Kyle as crew we launched at 7:40am and after a decent steam of 20miles we arrived on the Skerries banks at 8:25am. The conditions were perfect, flat calm and a mirror sea, not often you get those sort of conditions on the banks, however, with no wind and neap tides, our drift was quite slow, so I immediately knew that would be an issue for the Plaice. Looking on the bright side, a slow drift is good for Rays, and Mackerel can be caught at any time. I had already looked at the tidal stream graph and decided our best time for Plaice would be from 11:00am onwards, where we would drift along the banks at about 1kt, heading 227 degree's true. Straight away I was into Mackerel, only small, but perfect for bait. Kyle was first in with a Plaice, which was a decent keeper, but then he followed with 4 postage stamp fish ! Interestingly, the first 2 Mackerel were followed to the surface by quite large Cuttlefish, but I didn’t have any jigs in the tackle box. I felt a good bite and lifted into something heavy, which I assumed to be a Ray. Carefully I got it off the bottom and in typical big ray fashion it moved slowly off taking line. I tried to turn it, but I was using Plaice gear, and the line parted at the zip slider swivel knot. Next Kyle was into a ray and slowly boated a 7 ½ lb small eyed, which was good going with a 20lb snood and a sakuma 510 Atlantic size 1 hook. Now time was pushing on, and at 11:00am we repositioned for a drift along the banks. Perfect timing, as the drift was 0.8 – 1.2kts, and we were picking up a lot of decent keeper Plaice and Mackerel. All too soon it was 2:00pm and time to make our way back to port, a quite fast trip on a flat calm sea. We finished the day with 22 Plaice (11 keepers and 11 put back to grow bigger, so a 50/50 day 😃), 53 Mackerel, and the usual pack of Grey and Tub grunters, which all went back. An excellent day in which we covered 46Nm ……………. Kyle with the Small Eyed The average stamp of Plaice Flat calm, which is unusual on the banks Looking toward Dartmouth The Plaice filleted

Yes, I have never found your humour very funny ..........😛

Here we only get localised sea mist during the autumn / winter. It usually lays in the estuary entrance but as it is classed as radiation fog, it clears very quickly. Also it will be clear 1/2 mile out to sea. It is probably only one or two days a year when we get fog with less than 10 yards visability. Usually fog for us is no more than heavy sea mist with the visibility rarely dropping below 200. Yards. Our geography is also very different, and generally we don't have any moorings past the harbour entrance, and the harbour nav lane is very clearly marked.

I already knew that was the difference, but did check the actual beam widths from Garmin data. Your Furuno might be older and technology has moved on a pace.

Tomorrow looks like a Skerries day 👍, so hopefully the weather will hold.

Just turn it on, and then look at the ‘marine traffic’ app on your phone, it will show your position, speed, and track.

Depends how old the Osoi is, the originals had the wrong hooks on them, but that would has been about 2017. Even the later Osoi hooks are generally way too large, the hook is too heavy, and the hook braids are too thick. Although the Osoi is a good jig, it pays to change the hooks. Also the way to look at this issue, is the fact that it is not really foul hooking as the fish was obviously going for the jig and got hooked up in the process.

If there is nothing on the inside or outside of the transom, then look inside and under the helm, sometimes builders put the ID plate there. The engine if it is original would suggest late 80's to mid 90's

Yes, probably about 15 - 25% of the time (less on the deep wrecks), and the culprits are always Pout, small Pollock, and scad. The bigger fish (probably 4lb and above) are always mouth hooked. I have never foul hooked a Bass of any size. However, Pollock of 2 - 3 lb are often hooked in the area of the mouth and tend to go back unharmed. Pout get hooked anywhere, often in the top of the head, but pout suffer from barotrauma and rarely go back. Finer hooks tend to be most fish friendly, I have been using Suteki twin assist with huge success. When they are foul hooked, I am not sure whether they were going for the jig, or the shiny flailing hooks ?

If you are like me and a fine weather angler then it is not worth the extra cash. I went AIS instead of Radar, because I really have no need for it. The 18" sends a 5.2 degree beam and the 24" sends a 3.7 degree beam. The narrower the beam, the more detail you get, so effectively the 24" is of higher resolution (i.e lots more detail)

Difficult to answer. As with potting, netting is best on springs, with pots on springs you normally check the pots every other day, but I am not sure about nets. When potting on Neaps, you can leave the pots to soak for 5 days or more. They tend to reset the nets if it has been profitable, however, netting on wrecks is very risky because the gear loss often outweighs the profit. A friend went out from Exmouth on last Thurs / Friday, and report back that most of the nets are either gone or have been moved slightly away from the wrecks. I happen to know that some of the rod caught commercials have been picking up the buoy / net ropes and driving slowly around in circles, which causes an horrendous tangled mess to sort out 🙄🤣 I said right from the beginning that the commercial mafia would sort it out, and the situation won't last long .................

A good day’s fishing Mike, excellent.👍 Yes, if there are Mackerel or Scad around, the snowbiki’s rarely fail !😉

Yes, bait elastic improves bait presentation and if used correctly also stops the bait sliding down and masking the hook point. However, you need to use the correct elastic for the job, there are generally 4 types, Fine elastic, Regular (also known as Medium) elastic, Heavy elastic, and lastly Cocoon elastic. Most Medium elastics are pretty much a waste of time, as they are too heavy for fine and not beefy enough for Heavy jobs ! Fine is great for soft baits like Mussel, Razor Clams, Hermits, Cockles, Prawns, Worm, and Limpet Heavy is good for everything else, like Macky, squid, Peeler, etc. Heavy is also good for making large baits by continually adding extra bait to the bundle and binding each layer with elastic Cocoon is just wound differently and made on a smaller spool (it is wound like a cocoon), but it is a finer elastic than the fine and again good for very soft baits, but it doesn't really do anything better than the standard fine elastic. I tend to use Heavy for almost everything, just don't pull it so tight with soft baits, but I do carry Fine elastic which is used mainly for Mussels and Prawns. There are also other tools to make baiting easier, like using a heavy duty bait needle for threading worm, or the Breakaway bait tool (essentially a bait needle with a double loop on the end), where you hook onto the loop and then bait up on the shaft of the tool using elastic and then pull the tool free. Also, there is the Gemini spring loader, where you use the spring action of the tool to construct very big baits, but again, elastic is a very important part of the process. This is using the Breakaway bait loader

Yes, I can see it fine, but I bet @JonChas trouble viewing it 😛🤣

If you know how, it is possible to do a google image search, which might throw up something. I will have a look later if I get chance, as image searches are somewhat complicated.