Water is getting warmer
Submitted by randall df223 on Sun, 2014-11-02 19:14
First image is last weekend, fishing for whiting - Mindarie
Second image is yesterday, water is one degree warmer. the bait ball was busting on the surface. a couple of predators down low. same area.
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tim-o
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Love that bottom pic, that
Love that bottom pic, that excites me
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sea-kem
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I still reckon the
I still reckon the sensitivity is too high on your unit ranadall. Are you also able to change the backdrop pallette to a dark colour?
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randall df223
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Yes I can. Experimenting
Yes I can. Experimenting with a white background atm. Lots of others to choose from. I was on my own when I took that second pic, so I was trying to fish rather than stuff around with the settings. Lol. What caught my attention was the bait busting the surface in front of my drift, so as I moved over it I took a snapshot.
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randall df223
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It's good to be able to
It's good to be able to review the settings when I get a good picture like the first one. Next time I can start with those settings.... just got to remember to record them.... I think I should note the settings on the waypoints.
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Cruise Control
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Hey RandallIs that black line
Hey Randall
Is that black line on the bottom the equivalent of the "white line" on other sounders and it is just separating the bottom from fish echoes etc ? If so what is all of the blue and green just above the black line and below what i take to be fish echoes. Its more evident in the second pic in the zoomed shot of the bottom on the left.
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randall df223
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Yes the black line is what
Yes the black line is what the unit interprets the bottom to be and I believe it is called white line or mesh line on some units. The blue and green are just weaker echos. Their colour is purely dependant upon the colour pallette I choose. The second image isn't great. My settings were a bit out. Too much sensitivity and the range is set a bit shallow. The prevailing conditions accounts for the difference in the bottom echo between the images. The first one was taken on a windy raining south wester with an short wind wave. The second was saturday afternoon when the seabreeze was about three knots and it was pretty flat.
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z00m
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Good stuff Randall, is that
Good stuff Randall, is that still on the sand flats or over hard ground this time?
The echo looks stronger so just curious about what I'm looking at.
I think you and I fish pretty similar places. Once I've got my anchor issues back under control I'll be back out there!
randall df223
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Both on sand. Different
Both on sand. Different range setting and different sensitivity setting. As SK says, probably too high and on a shallower range in the second pic.
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water temp to rise
In the paper earlier this week there was an article from some marine centre saying that there are alarming signs that we may be in for another "water heat wave".
Later on this year extending into next year. The article stated that if there predictions are right it will have a dramatic negative effect on the cray season and the local fish populations will suffer and change in make up.
With the above observation on water temperature it is looking like another heat spike in water temperatures is highly likely to become a fact.
tim-o
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Good on you
For takin that pic and sharing it, but I woulda fished the shit out of it!
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randall df223
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Got myself a halco c-gar
Got myself a halco c-gar sinking stick bait in gin clear. Need to get it rigged and ready for times like that....
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uncle
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Yeah
I got 21c yesterday off mindarie
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Mattyb84
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Bring on the heat wave I
Bring on the heat wave I recon. I'm getting excited
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DTrain
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On Saturday I was getting 19c
On Saturday I was getting 19c at the east end of rottnest and then it shot up to 21c by the time we got out to the wrecks on the west end of rottnest.
tim-o
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Shows that on the sst chart,
Shows that on the sst chart, see any action?
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DTrain
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We spent most of the day
We spent most of the day trolling along the north edge of rottnest without any action.
Once we got to the wrecks we had a quick jig and pulled up a sambo. While we were jigging we spotted some bird action out on the horizon so we headed out towards it but it dissapeared just as we got to it.
Judging by other peoples posts we should have stuck closer to the coast.