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General Fishing Tips / Re: 20 Fathom Line Install

« on: Today at 03:03:07 PM »

Process was similar to this on my Lowrance:

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Fishing Tournaments and Events / Re: The 2nd Annual Bullards Bar Fish'n'Chill Friday 5/10-Sunday 5/12, 2024

« on: Today at 08:03:44 AM »

Schoolhouse 25 Friday - Monday

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General Fishing Tips / Re: 20 Fathom Line Install

« on: Today at 07:27:13 AM »

On my less fancy Lowrance it showed up under files and was easy to load. It's possibly the card or the card reader, just not sure. If it's the reader i'd try inserting it over and over again to see if it might get contact on a corroded contact. See if you can see any corrosion come out from doing that. If you had a known good card you could recognize in there before that would help narrow down the issue. If it has a wifi capability, sounds like that would be a better option, but not sure how to troubleshoot that. I definetly would like a wifi option for offloading data. Then I would automate backing up data every trip. I have a backup already, but have to put the card in, write it, and then stick it into a usb reader in the office.

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General Fishing Tips / Re: Descender Weight

« on: May 01, 2024, 05:13:34 PM »

Quote from: polepole on May 01, 2024, 03:56:32 PM

Quote from: AlsHobieOutback on May 01, 2024, 12:56:36 PM
Quote from: Bulldog---Alex on May 01, 2024, 12:20:34 PM
Has anyone tested retrieving what might be a larger fish at slower retrieval from deeper water? I will try and report when the time arises.

I have not had issues with barotrauma at inshore because most of my inshore fishing in a kayak is usually no more than 80 ft in places I frequent around the Monterey bay
According to this PDF from the DFG on barotrauma: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=36345

Myth: Reeling a fish in slowly prevents barotrauma.
Fact: Rockfish cannot acclimate to the pressure drop even when reeled in slowly.

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Myth: You can tell by looking whether a fish will survive or die.

According to published results of a Sea Grant
study led by researchers at Cal State Long Beach:
The degree of barotrauma in a fish is not a reliable
predictor of its survival. The most significant
predictor of post-release survivorship is the time a
fish spends at the surface.

Descend them all please, regardless of what they look like.

-Allen

If a fish can go down on it's own, lets say quick release at the water line, does that also mean that it's being less subjugated to the stress of barotrauma?

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General Fishing Tips / Re: Descender Weight

« on: May 01, 2024, 12:56:36 PM »

Quote from: Bulldog---Alex on May 01, 2024, 12:20:34 PM

Has anyone tested retrieving what might be a larger fish at slower retrieval from deeper water? I will try and report when the time arises.

I have not had issues with barotrauma at inshore because most of my inshore fishing in a kayak is usually no more than 80 ft in places I frequent around the Monterey bay

According to this PDF from the DFG on barotrauma: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=36345

Myth: Reeling a fish in slowly prevents barotrauma.
Fact: Rockfish cannot acclimate to the pressure drop even when reeled in slowly.

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General Fishing Tips / Re: Descender Weight

« on: April 30, 2024, 06:44:37 PM »

I have a 2.5lb fin weight I'm going to use, it has a snap at the very end of the fin to attach your dr release clip so I'll point it straight down. At the moment I plan on using a hand-line to descend, but I'm more than tempted to use my DR, which seems like it would be easy to control on descent and retrieve.

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For Sale / Re: Kayak City Current Kayak deals!

« on: April 30, 2024, 04:01:15 PM »

Quote from: Kayak City on April 30, 2024, 09:43:34 AM

sorry guys admins decided we are advertising and no longer allowing us to post our deals to help the community, I'm sure they will pull this post and also ban us. just wanted to let you all know thanks - James

That's a nice. Very professional response.

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AOTY / Re: Electric Motors in AOTY

« on: April 28, 2024, 08:05:07 AM »

Topic: Electric Motors in AOTY

No, it would not apply as that is clearly not electric powered.

Quote from: Sailfish on April 27, 2024, 03:01:59 PM

Quote from: fishbushing on April 27, 2024, 02:32:34 PM
Quote from: SpeedyStein on April 27, 2024, 02:12:46 PM
Does this qualify?

Could probably get to the fishing spot faster than me, haha.

A motor is a motor

I don't see why not. It's a motorized kayak

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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: Clear Lake 4/25

« on: April 25, 2024, 04:48:53 PM »

Damn that's exactly what I've been hoping for is a day like that. I love tossing those small keitechs! So much fun on my light rod when they load up. And an UPGRADE cat!? WHAT!? Sure sounds better than buying and tending to minnows all day.

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General Talk / Re: My newest kayak 😁😁😁

« on: April 25, 2024, 10:41:29 AM »

Quote from: Bulldog---Alex on April 24, 2024, 05:58:57 PM

Quote from: AlsHobieOutback on April 24, 2024, 05:13:00 PM
Congrats on a new slaying vessel Alex! That looks much slicker than the tin cans you usually float in

Thanks, I think?

Ha! I might be taking my 12 foot aluminum to shelter for a few recon missions. Then talk to me about tin cans. Tenderfoot!