GPSguru

£29, but when you renew each year they give you some discount, I think I paid about £26 this year ............ Wrecksite is free to sign up, but you pay for access to the admiralty charts (UKHO), which is where the £29 goes ..........

Yes, I use it, but not very often ........... my main source of data is Wrecksite.eu ................. Wreckfinder is good, but not as good a wrecksite Wrecksite is deadly accurate with position and info ............. all I do is sit and populate my Plotter from my PC using Garmin Homeport Wrecksite can save you a load of wasted fuel, as it gives a lot of info about the wrecks and their orientation, height above the seabed and if they are intact or not .......... all this info can be added to the waypoint in the plotter .................. Do you want access to wrecksite to try it ? 😇 ................. or do you want me post up some screen shots (normally you can't do that from wecksite UKHO Charts, but I have the technology .............. I suppose even the welsh leisure centre (a sheep tied to lamppost) is banned at the moment ..............🤣

We use 160g shads, mainly because you can work them in a way which is almost impossible with the standard flying collar rig ............. If there are Cod on the wreck I switch over to a 160g shad, cut off the leader, and fish direct to the braid ........... we then fish in front of, beside of, or behind of the wreck. The shad is dropped to the bottom and then bounced off the bottom by a sweeping movement of the rod, then dropped by lowering the rod, deadly for Cod and the take is always on the drop ............ A similar movement that you would impart to a slow jig ..............

Oh, sorry, missed that bit 🤐 .............. I blame my glasses 🤣 ................

Whilst making your own plug for the mould is admirable, would it not have been easier to use an existing SP as the plug ? ...... Like BFM, Artic Eel, slim Wreckzer, Vibro Shad etc ...... just curious ........ Now you need to start moulding your own jig heads for then. If you need the special hooks then let me know .....

Nope , none of them .................. This is the only book you need for Cod,

I am just waiting for a break in the weather ........... it has been 3 weeks since I have been out ................... however, I fear that lockdown in England may be approaching fast over the horizon ...................😒 PS: Mark Drakeford sends you and Luke his kind regards .............🤣

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 ..........😇😍🤣

Tronixpro 'Blackout' is good stuff, cheaper than the leading brands, but has all the right qualities ........... memory free, knots well, and seems to be quite abrasion resistant. We have been using it as leaders on the wrecks .................

TBH I can't see the fascination for them, only tart value .............. I have a mate who colour codes all his leads with powder coat, but he is a proper tart like Neil .🤣 On our tinsels (we don't use feathers) we often use either a 60g dexter or a slow jig (60 - 250g) ...........we have had some decent Bass take the slow jig ............ Over the years we have found tinsels to be far more effective ................ in the winter we very often bait the bottom hook with Mack or squid strip to pick up the bigger 'ting, by bouncing it along the bottom ..............

I stock these in 18/0 & 20/0 ................ a pair would make a decent pennel 🤣

Yes, but a bit firmer and stronger tasting than pollock ................ again, like pollock, foodwise it is the poor mans cod ............ (Colin) I am not keen on Ling, but I am a fussy fish eater ................

Now that is a very decent fish, a proper fish ................ our Cod grounds only produce codling to about 2 - 4lb, to get bigger fish it has to be off the wrecks. There are about 70 wrecks on my plotter within easy steaming distance and only ONE of them produces cod with any consistency ................. However, many of the others will produce 10 -15lb Pollock without too much effort .............. We have also found one wreck that consistently produced coalfish in the summer, so it is going to get a winter visit .................

It is also a deep V hull and Deep V hulls need a lot of HP .................👍

If it is the same as the LVS32 then the first thing will be to switch on the transducer compass and calibrate it (2 complete circles) , then you will see 2 vectors from your boat on the plotter showing which way the transducer is looking. I suspect the gain will be too high, so leave all the settings on auto and reduce the gain to get the correct definition ............ I find the standard colour scheme works for me OK. Garmin say that Panoptix is only good to 200ft, but we have used it at 250ft OK (that is as deep as we go here !)

It certainly is Andy ...... so much so, that I used to commute by train 4 days a week to London for 15 years ...............glad to be retired now ! The run down to the Skerries passes some stunning coastline. Apart from Plaice by the bucket load, there are a number of species on the Banks ............

Ribcraft sea trial all their new boats that are 5.85m and above, before handover to the customer ......................I could have joined them but I was busy that day. During the trials they found that it was over propped with the standard 3 blade SS prop, so Mercury sent them a couple of 4 blade Revolution 4 props to try as that particular prop was designed for that style of boat ............ I am pretty careful with it as the REV4 props are £650 each ............. The only other issue was large rooster trails from the transducers ............ Garmin provided diffusers and angle adjustments to overcome the problem .............

2019 Ribcraft professional offshore (19ft) This is a pic from the factory sea trials at Portland On our way down to the Skerries banks (45Nm round trip) ............ This February this year, fishing on the 12 mile wrecks, quite cold , i think about 3C, which is rare for us in the English Riviera

I dont want to worry you Jon, but most (if not all) the Garmin units I have had tend to read slightly low (about 0.4V) .......... I guess they are reading the internal voltage which would of course be more or less correct.

Yep ............ Fuchs RENOLIT Aqua 2 ................. not cheap but excellent for boat trailers .............

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I think I might know a few on here ..................🤣