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Dam leather Jackets, they are the size of a yakka and they eat and school up like a PIHRANA. Lower a bait down first and slowley wind it up to check if the jackets are under you. The squid are on the chew with the sephia in pure white being my favorite at the moment.

Mate please start a new fishing show.... great fish.

Great king for the bay.....mate. I have a HDS sounder also and replaced the transducer with an AIR-MAR p66 transducer. Fish targets are a lot more easy to identify with a lot less shit allover the screen.

Great report mate ... and from past years, you are a great wealth of knowledge. Ive also broken many rods from fishing to transporting them or just being a silly bugger but yet to see one go BANG in the but section...LOL hope they replace it for you.

Wow guys that was a good read, on one ugly fish that sounds to pack a punch.....Now im thinking my mate could have got a belt from it and not letting me in on the laugh.

This one was foul hooked near Gymea Baths ... About 55cm and wight about 1.5kgs

Great report mate... Nice to here the yakkas are back in numbers in the area you mentioned. They are a must, if we are all to be in with a chance to nail LEGAL size kings for dinner.

Hi guys, ive fished the bay for many years also and im leaning towards the Port extension as the problem because i never found a problem until it start and its never recovered yet. On a positive note the more bait fish that stay in the bay and the cleaner the water can stay without storm water runoff should give us a great chance at having a crack at them.

Love to see one swiming around my boat...awsome

The only thing i hate about EGIMAX is that it stains the jigs.

I agree , Get the furuno.. for off-shore work ,and i think its Aussie made...As for fords being taxis as a comparision to the Pro.s having furuno sounders i cant agree with this as contracts and deals goven this industry..Proven performance and word of mouth has gotten Furuno a quality name and no mass advertising and angler sponserships to push there product. IMO. Check out LOWRANCE on facebook and you will see the happy customers they have world wide ...NOT. Whem your warranty is up... toss it in the Bin because your head will spin the amout they will hit you with to repair the sounder... the up side is they will offer you a new sounder at a discounted price thats some how close to the requested repair bill to the old one.

Stay away from Lowrance if your looking to fish off-shore alot, they are ok for bays rivers but you need to Drive there sounders and play with them alot to get the best out of them.

Me also , got 15mile SE of Browns and it was pumping, Landed 2 albacore ..... came across Long Liner bouys and that made me head for home. 2mile out from botany head seen a massive seal over 100kgs easy smashing into a huge squid or cuttle fish flicking it into the air and just shredding it... awsome sight of the day.

Reckon ill be on the water 6.30

Im heading out also tomorrow , Heading east of browns stacko.....CH 21 vhf ill be yelling out to ya if we get connected.

That picture mad me smile instantly ....love it well done on the fin also.

Ill have my fingers crossed for you as im out of options on how to get it working in some sort of decent depth...Im going to reset the system on it tommorow and see how i go. if its still shithouse i have to send it back to the dealer and let them deal with it, will probably buy a cheap $150 sounder for the meantime and i know of one what works.

Right hand side of motor...on the tranducer mount plate that it built in by barcrusher

HDS 10 gen 1 and it still sux at the moment.

I have the LOWRANCE HDS 10 GEN 1 and cant get it to read past 300 meters, up graded the software from lowrance site didnt help, the worst part is that it locks up and dosnt do anything...like it gets lost. When crossing back over the to shallower water it finds itself and is ok again. Im really not happy with it being a true BLUE water sounder, starting to think it really belongs in a BASS lake back in the USA.

Awsome Blue Fin , i could never hold one up at that weight ,reckon my back would snap.I trolled 10mile past browns today for ZIP.

Updated the sounder from Lowrance website to 4.1.36 version and I'll try the above ping and gain as you mentioned Leo. Thanks very much for your help and fingers crossed it works. Cheers stevo.

Super super KING fish....congrats.

It's a GEN 1 and did the software upgrade 3 months ago...so will check for the latest update.... Depth was on auto setting set on 50khz and 98% gain. Thanks stevo

Anyone one else having the same problem and not able to sound any of the water colum after 300m? It really gets lost and packs it's bags and goes to lunch.If anyone is looking at buying one and using it at great depths hold off because it's not only mine that's doing it. Placing the 1kw Bigfoot transducer has not helped it also.