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Thank you Donna !

You may have hooked the main 12v line and the ignition or auxiliary wires all together . Radios usually have a wire that has to stay live to keep the memory active and part of that is remembering what state the radio was in when the ignition was turned off - simple fix is a switch on the dash to turn it on when needed .

Great haul of fish there !

Might have to start a new topic on Fishraider- dodgy reports and put those AI reports in there , always on the lookout for a good laugh 😆

Well I suppose you could call it that 🤣🤣🤣 I have never seen anything like it and it wasn’t a one off - I did three passes and they lined up behind the prop each time . Might have to change my name for my boat from Rainmaker to pied piper 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks all for the kind comments! one strange thing did happen - I was trolling along a man made rock wall and noticed a large splash in front of the boat so I started looking around the boat to see if I could spot what made the splash, looking out the back I spotted a school of big carp following the boat - seemingly mesmerised by the slowly rotating white prop ! I dropped a curl tail plastic in there but couldn’t get them to take it .

Anywhere beats home or work! originally wanted lake Lyell but that place is booked solid months in advance, looked at Wyangla but didn’t like it and my mate mentioned Windermere so went there . Came here a million years ago and had a great time - glad to say that it is still a great place and I will be coming back !

G’day Raiders, Currently out at Windermere dam for a relax and a bit of fishing . Nothing serious and wasn’t expecting to catch much considering I don’t normally fish the sweet water. Anyhow we went out for a troll / cast session and I got my first cod and my mate picked up a chubby yella , mine was caught on a chartreuse spinner bait and the yella was on a rattling vibe style lure - brand unknown .

Fishing is only as expensive as you make it - buying seafood is expensive because you are paying someone to catch it for you and if you catch your own you also get the benefit of a day out / an adventure which will beat sitting at home watching tv every day of the week. Someone that can use a tiny bit of sausage mince on a small hook tied to a few metres of cheap light line and used to catch a yakka for bait and convert that into a table fish is a real angler in my eyes - it takes knowledge and skill to do this - neither of these can be bought and you don’t get them because you own a lot of expensive gear - they have to be learned and earned ! You were born with free transport - they are called legs and feet and you don’t have to have a boat- no use if you fish the beach/rocks , tiny bass creeks or trout streams anyway. The only thing I buy from a fish market are my pillies - usually around $13 a kg and still frozen food grade IQF which is a hundred times better than the garbage you get from a servo or tackle shop freezer. One flathead trip is usually 8 - 10 pillies ( 200-250gm) so for $13 I get four trips worth of bait . So about $5 bait , about$15 diesel, $10-$15 petrol , a thermos of coffee , a few sausages and salad for lunch so for around $45 I get a day out and if I catch my bag of flathead that may yield say 2-2.5kg of fillets @$30 a kg I’m saving $20 ! If you really want a sport / pastime or hobby that cost lots and returns zero try target shooting- each squeeze of the trigger is like throwing a $2 coin into the sea - then repeat that for the equivalent of 300 rounds and all you get back if you win is a trinket worth about $5!

The great thing with being able to turn the transducer off is you can play with the settings at leisure at home . I’m not sure but I think you can run it in simulator mode and test your settings- you might have to do some google work to check this though !

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/echomapplus/EN-US/GUID-4E013683-0EFE-4465-A1ED-5DCF1238651B-homepage.html ok first one is a video to show you how to turn off/on the transducer so you can run the unit out of the water - do this first . once the unit is up and running run the sonar you are having problems with and the touch menu >sonar settings > advanced and check the bottom search limit setting - make sure this is deeper than where you fish . Also in that sonar setting section is where you will find the manual / auto / bottom lock and zoom function, I run either auto range or bottom lock as I fish on the bottom mostly . I made the mistake of watching some American guys tutorial on settings and ended up with a screwed up sounder - I restored to factory default and then chose the units I wanted it to show and pretty much left it alone. The new sounders do a pretty good job on auto for most applications. I found the little range icon box on the top of the screen wouldn’t set the unit into auto range , if I set it there it would change back to what was set in the menu function as explained above. Also in the menu you can change what that little box does ie from range to brightness ( gain ) etc to suit your needs. Each type of sonar has its own menu settings so you have to run the type of sonar you want to change things in then select menu > sonar settings etc . don’t forget to turn the transducer back on when finished- tap power button and select from onscreen list . one thing I did do is change the start sounder on power up to off - all this means is that when I turn the main power on the sounder stays off until I press the button on the sounder unit itself - good if you remove you sounder head unit all the time .

I think you might have one too many 0 on that number James - 2000AD was not that long ago ! Or was it 2000bc? I think it is a typo in the article - 2000BC looks more like it

I think that the system for hooks was around long before electrical wire though and even before fencing wire . I wonder if it may be something like sewing or knitting needles - iirc they use /0 system as well . Hooks are weird as they use a double sided scale for sizing , one side the higher the number the smaller the hook , the other side the higher the number the bigger the hook . It does make me wonder how far back the use of the /0 system goes in regards to fishing hooks - maybe Scandinavian countries were using this centuries before America was discovered?

Awesome Dolly Larkin!

The mower will still be there tomorrow- the fish may not 🤣🤣 That’s my excuse 🤣🤣

I don’t have that problem - single, no kids so fishing here I come 🎣🎣🎣🤣🤣🤣

https://archives.cjr.org/language_corner/language_corner_072814.php#:~:text=That's because “aught” can mean,that was originally a mistake.

I originally thought that this saying may have come about from wartime surgery but from what I have read early sutures were #1,#2 etc and sizes 1/0 (0) thru to 6/0( 000000) appear to be 20th century designations . 1/0 is thicker than 6/0 .

Nice feed ! Hey Yowie do you ever fish at night for whiting in the port ? I have a hankering for a run up tide night time whiting fish using nippers - was thinking of Swansea but port hacking is way closer !

Well one thing I do know is if you ain’t got a bait or lure in the water you ain’t gunna catch anything regardless of the moon , tide cycle or barometer reading ! I often ask my mate if he is going out on the weekend and usually get a reply of too windy , too cold , swell too big or wrong tides - my reply is if you sit there waiting for the perfect conditions you will die of old age before you ever go fishing again !

Probably the same reason they drive on the wrong side of the road, use 110v for domestic supply , call petrol gasoline and on and on etc - if you can answer that then you will have solved one of the greatest mysteries of all Now can we pick on the kiwis???? There are some real gems in there

It could be worse - hooks could use the same size designations as drill bits ! Metric , inch, letter and number sizes . I’m waiting for someone to put a # in front of the hook size

Weirdest use of the aught thing is with a rifle cartridge 30-06( 30cal, released 1906), Americans call it 30-aught 6 but pronounce 1906 as 19 oh 6 as do we. Here it is 30-oh 6. You are probably right there Zoran - aught is naught without the N . I don’t know the origin of the bar oh designation -4/0 ( four bar oh ) surprised it isn’t pronounced four forward slash oh

I have heard a saying that when the moon is up during the day the fishing will be bad during the day , I never payed much attention to it . Thinking about it makes me wonder if this has something to do with the prawns running during the dark of the moon ? Maybe the fish are gorging themselves on the prawns at night and digesting during the day ?

I think aught is an American term . I would say four oh .