Popular Post GPSguru Posted June 26 Popular Post Share Posted June 26 (edited) Mid springs, nice weather, flat sea forecast, what is not to like. It was a hard call, due to the usual slipway spring tide limitations it was to be either a morning wrecking session getting back at 13:30, or a full day on the skerries getting back at 16:00. The call was easier as fishing the skerries on a spring is hard work and often not productive, so it was out to the wrecks. Launched at 07:30 with kyle as crew and headed to a wreck at 18 miles. Wind over tude was an issue on the trip out with a short sea coming from all directions, but managed at steady 22knts being careful not to stuff the bow. There was a commercial from Dartmouth fishing the wreck and we saw he was catching bass using one rod with hookais, and 2 handlines with multiple lures. The stamp of bass looked to be 3lb ish. We kept 4 fish that were 48 / 49 cm. we made a few drifts and had a good few bass on small lures, however, there was a large quantity of monster pout on the wreck and we had a few of those as well. We did try a wrecking rig with mack flapper over slack, but it only produced pout. Once slack came the sea quietened down, so it was a cracking morning to be out there. The trip in was quick on a flat sea, and we caught the tide ok by being back on the slip at 1 pm. @Josh Here is a pic of the trip off the plotter 😉 Edited June 26 by GPSguru Dicky, Andy135, daio web and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Good effort the pair of you. Nice fish and great conditions 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 41 knts top speed, well you werent hanging around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 (edited) The screen picture that you have posted, is that available on most garmin mfd's I have a couple of old 5012's and a slightly newer 7410 XSV, can I get that info on any of these BTW, looked a nice few hrs out 👍 EDIT I assume that it's linked to the outboard and not an option for me Edited June 26 by jonnyswamp daio web 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 1 hour ago, jonnyswamp said: The screen picture that you have posted, is that available on most garmin mfd's I have a couple of old 5012's and a slightly newer 7410 XSV, can I get that info on any of these BTW, looked a nice few hrs out 👍 EDIT I assume that it's linked to the outboard and not an option for me i think you can only link them to certain outboards mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 nice day on the water again bud 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 (edited) 3 hours ago, jonnyswamp said: The screen picture that you have posted, is that available on most garmin mfd's I have a couple of old 5012's and a slightly newer 7410 XSV, can I get that info on any of these BTW, looked a nice few hrs out 👍 EDIT I assume that it's linked to the outboard and not an option for me Yes the trip info is readily available on your 7410 plotter, however, the fuel used info will require an input from the engine (I use a Mercury CAN bus to NMEA black box), but generally I red this infor diect from the mercury smartcraft gauges. When we are moving, I have the smartcraft set to show me fuel burn per hour and litres used since last fill up. But the trip distance, odometer, time moving, avg speed, max speed etc is all in the plotter. RTFM 🤣 ........... page 114 Edited June 26 by GPSguru jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 23 hours ago, GPSguru said: Yes the trip info is readily available on your 7410 plotter, however, the fuel used info will require an input from the engine (I use a Mercury CAN bus to NMEA black box), but generally I red this infor diect from the mercury smartcraft gauges. When we are moving, I have the smartcraft set to show me fuel burn per hour and litres used since last fill up. But the trip distance, odometer, time moving, avg speed, max speed etc is all in the plotter. RTFM 🤣 ........... page 114 That's great, something else for me to piss about with 🤣 GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 On 6/26/2024 at 12:15 PM, GPSguru said: Mid springs, nice weather, flat sea forecast, what is not to like. It was a hard call, due to the usual slipway spring tide limitations it was to be either a morning wrecking session getting back at 13:30, or a full day on the skerries getting back at 16:00. The call was easier as fishing the skerries on a spring is hard work and often not productive, so it was out to the wrecks. Launched at 07:30 with kyle as crew and headed to a wreck at 18 miles. Wind over tude was an issue on the trip out with a short sea coming from all directions, but managed at steady 22knts being careful not to stuff the bow. There was a commercial from Dartmouth fishing the wreck and we saw he was catching bass using one rod with hookais, and 2 handlines with multiple lures. The stamp of bass looked to be 3lb ish. We kept 4 fish that were 48 / 49 cm. we made a few drifts and had a good few bass on small lures, however, there was a large quantity of monster pout on the wreck and we had a few of those as well. We did try a wrecking rig with mack flapper over slack, but it only produced pout. Once slack came the sea quietened down, so it was a cracking morning to be out there. The trip in was quick on a flat sea, and we caught the tide ok by being back on the slip at 1 pm. @Josh Here is a pic of the trip off the plotter 😉 Awesome stuff ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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