Went out with a good man that’s friends with S4G and my brother Wednesday on his new-to-him 31 contender. Awesome ride to and from the 226 Hole.
Didn’t start fishing until late, and it took 2 hours to get a knockdown, but when it happened it was 7 at once. We got 4 in the boat, and broke two lines (didn’t know they were 30# test and put too much on them) and one spit the hook. Also hooked up a small sailfish for a moment after he worked through the chain and two flatlines. Couldn’t get the hook to stay in, but it was cool to see one play in the spread.
A little later, we hooked another bull. I noticed a a bigger bull swimming with him, so we dropped another bait back into the prop wash real quick. I let my bull go back behind the boat so his buddy would join in the fun, and the free bull ripped the dropped back bait and then nailed another bait on the other side that was still out. He was hooked, but we had a little too much drag on the reel when he hit, so he broke that rig off and promptly got into the bull I had hooked the whole time. I knew it was coming, but there was nothing I could do… snap. Both bulls then proceeded to dance along behind us as they were both hooked and tangled together. During all the above, we hooked a 50’ long piece of rope in the opposite side long rigger bait. Pretty disappointing, but we’ll get them next time…
We had no tangles in the spread and no serious boat issues, so it was a good trip for a new boat. The sonar crapped out in the afternoon though, so we couldn’t bottom fish. Major bummer, but it was still a good time. Note: I do not like Furuno very much.
Oh well. I think we ended with 8 or 9 dolphin in the box and the biggest were in the 20’s. The two bulls that got away were bigger but not much more than 35 I’d guess. The 3 others that broke off out of the 7 knockdowns were also decent fish in the upper slinger to gaffer range.
We fished in 300-1100’ of water most of the day, and most of the fish came from the small 75-76.5 temp br
Note: check your gear before you play with the fishies.
Bad to loose a fish due to to much drag. That sounds like a anglers foul up. Good to hear someone got out and caught fish.
“You are the offspring of 5 monkeys having But Secs with a retarded fish squirrel………. CONGRADULATIONS”!!!
You still got 8-9 of them which ain’t too shabby. I didn’t realize that you were not fishing with P1 on Wednesday. I tried calling you back a few times earlier in the day hailing for P1, but then MCMarine informed me that you were on another boat, and then we saw you like 15 minutes after that. Did you ever get the sounder working again or is it still broken? I thought you said that you couldn’t adjust the range on it. If I would have known that you were totally down and were going to bottom fish, you should have let me know and we could have marked some spots over there for you to drop down on. Did you guys get any bites at the banks where we saw you last?
Damm Skinnee, I’m on the bote with you, and you won’t let me drop on theat BEAUTIFUL ledge…But ol Wes needs to drop…I know where I stand now!
I didn't say I was going to stop MY boat, just mark a few spots when we were passing over the ledge and radio them over so they could hit them. I would have been more than happy to let you float out there for a little bit in one of the coolers like a big canoe and let you drift\drop for a little. We would have come and found you when we were done trolling!
Yeah, but think of how much funnier it would be to post a picture of you floating there in a 200qt cooler holding up your nice red snapper. I just hope it doesn’t rain, but then again, we can leave you a plastic cup to pump out the bildges.
We had it working all morning long, and we’d figured out how to tweak it. I had just put some spots in to go look at later in the afternoon as we worked back inshore when the switch panel in the entry-way to the cabin got bumped accidently and all the electronics were shut off as a result. Powered them back up, and the network seemed to be fine because the autopilot, depth/speed sensor, radar and GPS were operational again. The sounder would not read though. I tried the memory test thing suggested in the manual’s troubleshooting, but it wouldn’t perform that function. The sounder menus were accessible, but none of the functions could be changed. The depth range was stuck on 0-40’, and there was nothing showing but blue screen. So I was thinking it was a connection issue or the transducer having separate power and the fuse being blown or some such nonsense. I couldn’t figure it out. I told Derek to post a thread for Jim at BOE on thehulltruth for a possible simple solution. ??? I wouldn’t be surprised if the thing cut on and worked properly after just sitting overnight! (we did try letting it cool off for a few minutes before powering back up) I don’t see how it could be anything major, but we couldn’t get it resolved out there.
We only got cudas on top in that last area, and we didn’t try high speeding. It was good to get in relatively early anyhow.
That doesn’t sound good. Did you guys check the cable in the back of the unit? Was it the NavNet sounder or the seperate FCV585\600? If the latter, I don’t think that it needs the network to function.
It was the newer NavNet multifunction box. His separate depth sensor and display was still working properly. I was wanting to flip his controls/dash station down to get to the back of the big unit, but he said it was a royal pain in the butt. Weird that a connector would have coincidentally come loose from the plugins at the same time the power was cut though.
How many fuses are in your setup? The late model Lowrances have a separate fuse in the power going to the network & GPS antenna, and the transducer and display usually have another shared fuse. Looking back on it, we should have looked in the installation section of the manual to find ideas for electrical fixes after we couldn’t get anything to respond via the software.
Not sure about the fuses to be honest with you. I have the seperate unit (FCV585). It seems that if a fuse would have blown, you wouldn’t see much of anything. The first thing that I would have checked is the transducer connection. Usually on the NavNet, if a module isn’t working, you can’t even select it in the “display” menu (it’s greyed out). On an older boat of mine, I had some kind of connector come loose on the way to the x-ducer and it quit working, but that was years ago and I don’t really remember the symptoms.
Not sure about the fuses to be honest with you. I have the seperate unit (FCV585). It seems that if a fuse would have blown, you wouldn’t see much of anything. The first thing that I would have checked is the transducer connection. Usually on the NavNet, if a module isn’t working, you can’t even select it in the “display” menu (it’s greyed out). On an older boat of mine, I had some kind of connector come loose on the way to the x-ducer and it quit working, but that was years ago and I don’t really remember the symptoms.
I will let him know about those options… perhaps an extension cable or plugin loose…
Neither frequency would work… actually, we couldn’t change frequencies. Hitting enter or return after selecting something different in any menu would not change anything. I think it may be that memory issue that somehow got screwed up when the power was shut off suddenly because of how nothing could be changed, and it wouldn’t perform that memory module test or something like that we saw in the troubleshooting section. The weird thing is how the plotter and options still worked fine…
Not sure about the fuses to be honest with you. I have the seperate unit (FCV585). It seems that if a fuse would have blown, you wouldn’t see much of anything. The first thing that I would have checked is the transducer connection. Usually on the NavNet, if a module isn’t working, you can’t even select it in the “display” menu (it’s greyed out). On an older boat of mine, I had some kind of connector come loose on the way to the x-ducer and it quit working, but that was years ago and I don’t really remember the symptoms.
I will let him know about those options… perhaps an extension cable or plugin loose…
Neither frequency would work… actually, we couldn’t change frequencies. Hitting enter or return after selecting something different in any menu would not change anything. I think it may be that memory issue that somehow got screwed up when the power was shut off suddenly because of how nothing could be changed, and it wouldn’t perform that memory module test or something like that we saw in the troubleshooting section. The weird thing is how the plotter and options still worked fine…
We had it working all morning long, and we’d figured out how to tweak it. I had just put some spots in to go look at later in the afternoon as we worked back inshore when the switch panel in the entry-way to the cabin got bumped accidently and all the electronics were shut off as a result. Powered them back up, and the network seemed to be fine because the autopilot, depth/speed sensor, radar and GPS were operational again. The sounder would not read though. I tried the memory test thing suggested in the manual’s troubleshooting, but it wouldn’t perform that function. The sounder menus were accessible, but none of the functions could be changed. The depth range was stuck on 0-40’, and there was nothing showing but blue screen. So I was thinking it was a connection issue or the transducer having separate power and the fuse being blown or some such nonsense. I couldn’t figure it out. I told Derek to post a thread for Jim at BOE on thehulltruth for a possible simple solution. ??? I wouldn’t be surprised if the thing cut on and worked properly after just sitting overnight! </font id=“size2”> (we did try letting it cool off for a few minutes before powering back up) I don’t see how it could be anything major, but we couldn’t get it resolved out there.
We only got cudas on top in that last area, and we didn’t try high speeding. It was good to get in relatively early anyhow.
Luke 8:22-25
Thats what he did and it worked fine the next day.
and put too much on them) and one spit the hook. Also hooked up a small sailfish for a moment after he worked through the chain and two flatlines. Couldn’t get the hook to stay in, but it was cool to see one play in the spread.
