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Hi guys and girls, I'm looking at purchasing a new sounder for my refurbished tinny I have just completed somewhere in the $650-1000 range, will be using it to mainly target Jew on the drift in the harbour and Hawkesbury river. I want something compatible with sidescan imaging however I'm am just unsure which brand to go with. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

No and yes looks like I'm ringing lowrance

Hey guys Any ideas I'm stumped. Had my unit now for a month or so now and never had any problems to date until the unit stopped working just will not turn on. I've tried with a number of 12v fully charged battery's and changed the fuse twice

Couple of flicks

gday fellow raiders, back from my working holiday and thought id let you guys know how i went as i asked for a few tips before i went. was stayin at holloways beach beaut lil place 30m from the beach had no luck there however a few of the locals said you could get some barra and salmon off the beach in the morning, same goes when i walked up the barron river outlet on my days off no luck, seen quite few barra chasin some baitfish but. was hoping to get out to the reef on the Sunday and ill tell your what the conditions were perfect blue skies 1-3knot winds and a little if not any swell. my cousin and i hit it early up at 3 drove an hour up to Port Douglas and headed out to batt reef were on the water at 4.40 a good hour and a half before sunrise. all was going well as were probably 30km out just as the sunrise and were about 10km of were we headed when the bloody impeller shit itself of the 60hp 4stoke. **** as you can imagine. let the engine cool to see if we could get it started again but every time we got over 1500revs 2.5-3knots beep beep beep the warning lights would start, couldn't even get to trawling speed. Anyways 6hours later after limping back to Port Douglas doing 3knots we finally arrive extremely pissed off. However managed to get a 40cm spotted macky after trying to trawl on the way back even the lures were slowing us down hahaha. That was my only day off that weekend. On our way back to Holloways we stopped at this wharf forget the suburb but right near the uni up there. after getting a few livies with the cast net chucked some out with a few balloons attached and managed to snag a 50cm black tipped reef shark, this fellow comes running over from the uni and asked if they could chuck it into there aquarium the uni just spent a couple of mill building, yeah no worries champ. The following Friday had finished work for good and had the rest of the w.e off as i was flying home Sunday night, went round to me cousins to fix the impeller, bloody $40 part screwed us hard. weather was hopeless sat and a little bit better on Sunday so we decided to give snapper island a go up the daintree on Sunday, we hadn't tested the boat and weren't going to risk the reef again after our previous effort. got up early again 3am and headed up to snapper island, followed the daintree river out crossed the bar and round to snapper island in a good 1m swell. finally made it round there soaking wet threw the halco's out and hit trawling speed 4.5-5knots, thankfully we didn't have an issue with the boat. bait-fish everywhere according to the sounder and were hunting some big mackies thought we were in for a chance. no love for the first few hours of sunlight they must not of been on the bite that day. we noticed a trawler coming round to anchor behind the island so we got up in behind it hoping some fish might be following it and eating all the scraps they were throwing overboard, got level with the trawler and zzzzzzz we were on huge first run took a got 100m of line jumped on and started winding and could only feel a dead weight with only a couple of tail beats 'shark' i said, after winding him in we saw some silver big GT the bastard had curled onto his side and was just letting me pull him in, its like pulling in a 44gallon drum. 20kg GT. He completely swallowed a 40cm wolf herring with 4 gangs through it a bloke had given us at the wharf the previous week. Released him he took a bit of time to get him going again though. On our next pass of the trawler we got in the exact same spot and zzzzzzz on again this time the rod was going nuts pulled a good 150m of line on his first run. after a good 15-20 fight and pulling a boat a good 200m from the hookup spot i'd landed him the biggest GT id ever seen even bigger than those on all the videos 30kg F*** yeah!! Had a great time up there and i recommend it to anyone and everyone. Cheers BUSTED TRYIN TO ATTACH FLICKS MIGHT TAKE A WHILE IM HOPELESS

Heading up to cairns for work on the 7th-18th of April and will be staying only a 20-30m from the beach, as i haven't been there before i was hoping u guys could help us out with any local knowledge primarily will be doing land based fishing after work and on w/ends and am hoping to get out on at least one charter whilst up there. i don't really know anything about beach fishing so any tips would be a great help, i also plan to tackle the estuary system so any tips on lure types would be great much appreciated

if it’s a female, make sure you pull out the roe from under the backbone - it can be a tricky bit of surgery. Cheers Peter when u talk about the roe what is that? cheers for the advise guys never thought of checking youtube haha i guess practice makes perfect

Thursday 18th March Went out for a evening session 8-10pm to catch the last of the run in tide fishing one of my favourite land based spots in Woolwich had no luck to start then Zzzzz got something not a huge run so i figured small to medium sized bream after small fight and a bit of weight behind it landed this fish, to my surprise this fish defiantly exceeded all expectations managed a great sized yellow-fin bream 35-38cm expected much more of a fight from this fish but after closer inspection it had engulfed 2 hooks 30cm apart PB Yellowfin

hooked em both on a 7ft rod and quite oldschool reel workes perfectly but and holds good 250m of .50 line only running a 50lb leader i guess, prob haave to upgrade this to 80lb have caught them only on 15lb before but i guess it was just my lucky day i thought 50lb would secure my fish anyways cheers for the advise

was up the only a couple of months ago, had no luck when i was up there fishing wise as i to had no boat but if your like a bit of a spearfish the beach adjacent were the cnr store/ post office is littered with quite large bream 30-40cm probably on 10-15metres offshore if say throw a line out there, beachworms probably your best bet(bait available from the cnr store) cant help with the kings/jews i think ya might need a boat

have caught a few decent 30-40cm flounders down botney bay in recent times can anyone give me any tips on gutting these thin buggers have attempted it just cutting down behind the head and down on an a angle past the guts of the fish, then flipping the fish and slicing down either side of the guts and scrapping it out, any tips would be appreciated another quick query, whats the best way to fillet a flathead

i usually get mine from nrth head, where at balmoral can i get yakkas/squid it will save me a extra 40min round trip much appreciated

was out and about monday arvo for a a landbased fish up around little manly fishing live yakkas hooked up on a metre and a bit of 15kg mono trace running off a floaty down to 8kg mono i too was duly frustrated after being busted off twice by quite large kingies, both kings took me on a run of a good 40-50 metres before busting me off at my float any tips that may help me to land the prestige fish cheers

wow, this sounds like a must see how/where can i get these dvds (NZ guy (Matt Watson) that jumped from a helicopter onto a marlin, or the footage of the big snapper taking the whole kawhai/Australian Salmon) Waganella Banks DVD is awesome a friend showed it to me a few weeks ago bloodly amazing stuff

hello raiders. new to your site and i would just like to say quickly your site is great and i have learnt much just from scolling through your helpful topics, much appreciated. to the topic.. recently i have been visiting my new favourite land based spot around north head and everytime i visit the number of yakkas available has been unbelivable, except one night i ventured out and struggled to even get one can anyone tell my why i was to no avail, do they disappear to their favourite hidey holes at night like like flies do once dark hits. just curious