sat night

[danners]

I did actually get off for a fish this weekend against all odds,

headed off solo down the mouth, had jew on the mind but found my favourite spot occupied by a ship

fished a variety of difference spots and found it relatively quiet, picked up 2 jew, one mid-high 60s released boatside without lifting from the water as he was a bit worse for wear, and the next 71cm

got a high 30s squire and missed a good hit from a thready

i only made the effort to fish 3 or 4 spots this time, i'd also remounted my transducer and was getting more noise than before (go figure, previously it was on the same angle as the V in the hull, so shooting off to the side, i flattened it up and its throwing more noise now

on the positive side, after getting Garry (spaniard_king) to service the Honda its running much better. and for less than half the price of 'that other mob' who i should really name and shame that caused the problem in the first place, so cheers Garry much appreciate the quality of service

some piccies:




cheers
Dan

[Spaniard_King]

Nice Work Dan,

You may have to get the transducer down deeper if its showing noise now.. must have turbulance running under it.

[danners]

yeah i will have to play around, theres a bit of noise while not moving at speed and plenty of noise associated with cavitation/turbulence from the motor when just getting on the plane.

How much lower would you mount it? It'd be getting pretty close to the engine if i had to lower it a fair bit. or is that not a bad thing, lol

[Spaniard_King]

Dan If you have noise at rest then I think you have to play with the settings somewhat.. you want no noise at rest.. otherwise you don't have a chance of a good reading at speed.

[danners]

yeah perhaps, i have to run at about 70% sensitivity or the noise takes over, but i'm positive its transducer related as i should be able to get higher than 70%

[Spaniard_King]

Dan,

On My Furuno FCV 585 I cant go over %47 or I get bad clutter when deeper than 50m. I know you fish shallower than that but thats just an example.

[brisbane_boy]

Nice fish dan, i pulled out a meter thredy and a good jew on one of ya pink threadybusters last night, the snapper have been really quiet this winter compared to a couple yrs back, might have to try the islands shortly.

[jesse148]

Nice one Dan... I was keen to hit it up last night but the wifey put the brakes on a solo trip! Haha.... So took her out today at a lazy 10:00, picked up a few keeper squire and got home by lunch so wasn't to bad...

[bennykenny]

nice work dan shame the ship was in your spot, cheers BK