Bunno Dhu's
First trip out with the old man since September last year ( He has been laid up due to injury) and managed to find a couple of fish. Started off in shallow waters south of Bunno figuring that there might be a few predators inshore chasing the crays but it was pretty quiet. Dropped a couple of solid fish early just after arrival at about 6.30 and then it went dead. Fish everywhere on the Furuno but didn't seem to matter what we dropped in front of them. Tried squid,occy,mulies,prawns,jigs and plastics but no go. Watched them on the sounder come up for a look at the bait then head back to the bottom without a touch.
Decided to cut our losses at 9am and headed for deeper water. Thought I would try out the 588's accufish feature having never tried it before (only had the unit for a few trips). Took the readings with a grain of salt but found an area with a "claimed" 50+cm fish so had a drop. Up came a 60cm Dhu. Nice!. Cruised along until the next decent reading - says 55cm fish. Dropped a couple of baits on it and soon landed another Dhu measuring a just legal 51cm. Thought about returning it as we were now seeing soundings on the drift that the Furuno claimed to be 70cm+ but we were pressed for time (had to do some work), and considering the Dhu's reputation for barotrauma we called it a day and headed for home. Big thumbs up from me for Furuno's accufish. I know most don't rate it but it was brilliant especially as I am still learning how to read the Furuno. Every little bit helps.
Also returned a few pinkies, the largest being 47cm, plus a couple of rays which gave us a workout.
Conditions were good, a great day on the water!
Adam Gallash
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Date Joined: 29/11/05
Tasty treats
Cant complain with a new area producing some tastytreats, not seen the accufish feature in action yet.
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Flaminghedgehog
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Date Joined: 19/04/15
Accufish
Thought about taking a couple of pics of the sounder readings as I have noticed a serious lack of feedback online about this feature but you know what it's like, too busy steering/ baiting up/ getting lines in the water etc. Plus I can barely see my phone's screen in bright daylight when taking shots so it makes it all a bit too hard. Will try to make an effort in future to do so however. Downside to accufish that I can see is that it halves the screen refresh rate (less detail) and it can get a bit crowded when multiple fish are on top of each other. It's hard to read sizes when they are stacked on top of each other.