Finding Lumps For Dermersal fish

Hey There Guys

I have a furuno 585 sounder and im not sure if i am reading it correctly. When i fish on what i think might be a lump i get a lot of wrasse and other crap species of fish so maybe the small flare ups i see on the sounder might not be small lumps.

If any one has any sounder images of small lumps around 2 metres off the bottom or images of flat coral bottom they could post up then that would be great

All advice will be appreciated and hopefully after seeing a few images it might help me out more of what to look out for when searching for ground for dhuies / Baldys and Pinkys.

Cheers Guys

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Keep at it

Fri, 2013-02-22 15:44

 

 Predator, Mate, keep at the manual, and use the search function as there are plenty on here who use the same unit, im sure there's a bit in there.

i started in the shallows with mine sorting the difference between hard and soft before working on the gain.

 

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I don't have furuno so i cant

Fri, 2013-02-22 15:53

I don't have furuno so i cant help too much but not all lumps metro hold good fish, just have to keep searching until you find one that does. Heres a few threads with sounder shots.

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/sounder-shots

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/sounder-photos

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 Most the Dhuies I've caught

Fri, 2013-02-22 15:55

 Most the Dhuies I've caught have come from the flat Coral. We have fished a few pro cray lines and the bottom is hard so tells me that there are cracks in the limestone bottom where the crays and Dhuies are living. 

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 Is that a form of pinging

Fri, 2013-02-22 20:04

 Is that a form of pinging .......   

 

 

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 Ha ha yep but fair game for

Fri, 2013-02-22 20:09

 Ha ha yep but fair game for all. Just keep your distance.I find you need to read the ropes and get well ahead of the pots and the drift.

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Time time time thats all that

Fri, 2013-02-22 17:23

Time time time thats all that will help you out .keep looking at the sounder check different settings and learn what it is telling you. Even pro fisherman will need a few weeks to get their head around a new sounder after looking at a certain brand/ model for so long.

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Coral ground shows up as

Fri, 2013-02-22 17:52

Coral ground shows up as little xmas trees for us , if your getting harassed by wrasse it's on hard ground I'd be throwing one of their fillets on the hooks ..and give it a couple of drifts . The lumps should be solid in form and the flare ups fish ...heaps of info on here , you'll be a full bottle in no time 

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 Cheers for the info guys ..

Fri, 2013-02-22 18:11

 Cheers for the info guys .. Will have to spend a bit more time studying it I think..

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 http://www.teamcruisecraft.c

Fri, 2013-02-22 18:16

 http://www.teamcruisecraft.com.au/images/TUNING%20SOUNDERS.pdf Check this out . Very handy

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your quick!

Fri, 2013-02-22 20:03

i just cut the same link and was about to paste it here!

one of the best "how to" for sounders ive seen

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Hardness

Fri, 2013-02-22 18:18

Look for colour changes indicating the bottom if getting hard, , on most sounders its the red changing to a deeper darker colour. A lot of times you will not actually see major ledges etc but the sudden change of colour will show where it is.

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 That link is excellent,

Sat, 2013-02-23 10:01

 That link is excellent, cheers sea-kem.

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 Welcome. I keep it on the

Sat, 2013-02-23 10:04

 Welcome. I keep it on the boat as a refference.

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Thanks for the link

Sat, 2013-02-23 21:42

Cheers Andy.....it's an interesting read and a good reference doc, thanks.

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