Exploring new grounds and gotta feed
Submitted by Ktreloar on Thu, 2018-03-01 08:35
Tired a different location instead of the gay bay last weekend. The little 5m savage clocked 120km but worth it got a good mixed bag and found some not bad ground.
IncognitOh
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Have to be happy
with that!!
Good haul!
Moking
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That's looking like a few
That's looking like a few good meals there- ooh and gay Bay would have to be Cock Burn Sound. lol
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Faulkner Family
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definately a good feed
definately a good feed there, well worth the miles traveled. doing the exploring doesnt always pay off but it certainly can open up more ground for you. well done.
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sunshine
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Gain on the sounder wound up?
I seldom run greater than 4 ......? Through hull set up? Nice fish from exploratory ground
Ktreloar
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Gotta run higher with p66
Gotta run higher with p66 soft corals won’t show up properly. I have spent weeks jumping over the side freediving to confirm the ground. From there I tune the sounder so you can’t miss it. That’s going slow and at speed bottom lock shows a nice clear read spike when you run over it at 50km an hour. Almost never follow the guides for tuning sounders. Every reef is different and I tune my sounder to the reef I’m looking for. On all honesty you will miss a lot of plate coral and rubble reef will low gain. Big difference between 1kw and p66.
sunshine
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Only running standard transducer
And like you have "proved" ground by diving to confirm. I like less gain as the Furuno clearly shows caves and overhangs which vanish when the gain is too high. Oddly the pictures I see almost mimic what you have shown, love to see what I call flarey ground particularly in the 40's as it always holds good fish
Tom M
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Enjoying the screen shots
Enjoying the screen shots you attach. good reward for effort I would say, well done.
Tom M
Jadeo
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Nothing like reward for
Nothing like reward for effort. Bloody nice feed there
Bodie
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yep good fish, nice screen
yep good fish, nice screen shots, that 2nd one looks the sh!t