New Toy!

[mark]

been talking to my chaps at UKHO, and have a few images from their latest wheeze...bathymetric charts, need a laptop with gps or a new plotter when they catch up but your plotter display will look a bit like:


(i blurred the info BTW)



been tinkering with it here, you get a full 3d of the water and whtas under it that you can view from any angle, with your boat on top

they have a full set already for the whole of the north sea with every wreck on British Wreck Index already on it, it evens tells you what sort (flavour?) of rock the bottom is made of, tidal streams etc
the fish won\'t stand a chance

[willywetegg]

Looks a bit of quality that mind Mark.

Jim.

[mark]

aye and soon as the \'European\' commercials start using it there\'ll be bugger all left but jelly fish, and then the \'oriental nations\' will come have them.

resoltion is as good as 500mm or better, which means if a rock is 500mm in size it shows up as a, well, rock.

if it gets finer, you\'ll be able to see all the gear you\'ve lost on the wrecks!

[craigyboy]

thats cracking that mark i want one of them now.

[Marc]

Bet Boblydon\'s got one on order by tonight

[Charlton]

He still wont catch any fish. canny bit of gear that they cant even hide behind the rocks, yes cod will certainly become extinct shortly

[Stores]

Thanks for that Alan..... What will I call the book now???? The No Codling Crouch lol

[Charlton]

\"The way things used to be\"

[Stores]

To be honest it\'s my opinion that shore fishing has suffered, relatively, less than the fishing in the boat. Many times in the 70\'s I was sick whilst catching up to 30 or 40 codling per session, in the weirs, piers closed. Can\'t see that today but shore catches seem maintained, albeit over a longer period (some good years, some bad). Maybe there\'s more hope for the shore angler than those in the boat

[Charlton]

Could be right there David, there always seem to be a few fish in the weed.

[willywetegg]

Got to say that some years on the beach are better than others.
This last year is the worst in my memory. so hopefully it was just a bad one.

Jim.