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7 minutes ago, Odyssey said:

How much is wreck site? 

£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 ..........

4 hours ago, Odyssey said:

Does anyone have this? Im reluctant to pay £30 without seeing a demo... ideally of what’s around west Wales. 
 

im looking for early spring wrecking for pollack 

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 ..............🤣

6 hours ago, Andy135 said:

 

RTFM GPS... 🙄

I designed the body around the diameter of a 6oz jig head mould that I pour the heads from. No existing SP bodies matched the diameter of the jig head, so I had to make my own.

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 ..............

2 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

 

RTFM GPS... 🙄

I designed the body around the diameter of a 6oz jig head mould that I pour the heads from. No existing SP bodies matched the diameter of the jig head, so I had to make my own.

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 .....

2 hours ago, Andy135 said:

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

Nope , none of them ..................

This is the only book you need for Cod,

8 minutes ago, headlight said:

I am not my usual happy, easy going, non argumentative self due to having not been allowed to use my boat for 17 weeks this year so far and counting so I"m not posting anything 😂

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 .............🤣

3 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

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

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 ..........😇😍🤣

On 10/26/2020 at 9:33 AM, Andy135 said:

I've not found it has memory... you could also try the Savage Gear fluoro made for lure leaders. That's quite good, and supple.

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 .................

3 hours ago, Andy135 said:

Does anyone use them for bottom fishing? I see them online in dayglo colours and wondered if they're worth an extra fish or are they just a gimmick?

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 ..............

3 hours ago, Andy135 said:

I know one angler who uses whole cuttle... but they can be massive so I'm wondering how you'd hook it up?? You'd need about a six hook pennel!

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

4 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

Genuine question - are coalfish any good to eat? Guessing they're like pollack?

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 ................

On 10/22/2020 at 6:48 AM, Saintly Fish said:

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 .................

On 10/15/2020 at 10:33 PM, Andy135 said:

It's nearly 3 tonnes all up with full fuel tanks, which means only 100bhp per tonne. JY177 was reviewed by a boating mag back in the day and they squeezed 41-ish knots out of her.

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

17 hours ago, JDP said:

 just need a break in this weather now as I have a panoptics transducer I'm keen to test among other things.

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 !)

8 hours ago, JDP said:

When you say sea trials, is this just testing the rib or are you testing your rib ?

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 .............

On 10/25/2020 at 1:07 AM, JDP said:

My Suzuki 140 4 stroke seems to be pushing out 15 volts of charge according to my Garmin head unit. Hadn't really thought to much about it untill I just realised two of the bait pumps Ive recently replaced wearnt fused. They are now fused but 15 volts is still to much but also seems to be a common issue. The twin battery's were tested about 3 months ago after some electrical work and were fine then. Contacts all look good but my concern is that several people seem to have had the same issue even after Suzuki replaced the rectifier and battery's. I don't remember if it was doing this on battery 1 or 2 or both running at the same time, so will need to check this further on the next trip out. If it's just on one battery, I suppose I can just assume that ones starting to fail and not to much of an issue. 

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.

On 10/24/2020 at 2:46 PM, headlight said:

Renolit grease and use lanoshield to protect the frame.

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

1 hour ago, JonC said:

We’re fucked now. 

True .....🙄🤣

49 minutes ago, Odyssey said:

Uh oh..... here comes trouble! 😬😬😬🤣🤣🤣

🌊hello 😊

🤣😇🙄

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