Zander fish-in - October

[JV44]

Believe you can sikaflex or silicon it to hull as long as no bubbles in the silicon or plastic bag full of water with tranducer inside ,think I still have a nev fickling transducer tilting mount in the shed if I can find it , will deffo get one before we go and a drogue but don't tell Rusty coz he will forget that....

[Rob Ward]

Sounds like fun, I can't commit at this point though when would you need to know by?

[Dick Dastardly]

Yes it works. Most "pro" boats have it done like this as the transducer is better protected. On a "portable" set up I used to use a simple baton of wood with the transducer mounted on just "G" clamped to the gunwhale. I've got a purpose made aluminium mount now that looks and does much the same. However I have used the shoot through the hull method with a portasble set up and it works fine as long as you can get it somewhere you ain't going top trip over the lead or kick/stand on the transducer! boats with duck board floors are perfect as the unit is protected from your clumsiness and can have water in without your gear getting wet. I don't know about the Grafham boats but a lot of TR's have them set up like this.

 

As I mentioned I've not fished Grafham but have fished a lot of other big reservoir for Pike. It always pays to take a good drogue, extra mud weights/anchor and anchor rope.

[Anderoo]

I'll have to give it a try, cheers budgie. Yes the AW boats have separated bits at the ends (excuse my non technical boat speak!) where a container of water would be out of the way. (Ps it's Rutland before you end up at the wrong one )

 

Rob it would be great if you could make it, I'll book an extra boat just in case. We can always cancel it later if you can't come.

[JV44]

Anderoo just remind me Rutland = more fish but smaller Grafham= bigger fish but less of them?? going to splurge some money on a finder this evening

[Anderoo]

Yes Steve, that's right.

[Anderoo]

Looking at dates when we're all free, I'm going to suggest the following 2 days:

 

Wed 8 Oct

Fri 24 Oct

 

Shout now if these are no good, otherwise I'll book us some boats before the end of the week

[Matthew Simmons]

I'm good for both of these!

[Anderoo]

Matthew do have any suitable tackle or do you need to borrow an outfit?

[Matthew Simmons]

Thanks - but I think I have a couple of options Anderoo - a stiff 9' 30g spinning rod which I have used for pike, salmon (and livebaiting for bass at depth -entertaining when I hooked a ray!). I also recently acquired a shorter 7' 8lb class boat rod which was the dogs bits for black bream.

 

I figured either of those teamed up with my ABU 6501 with 10lb braid might do the trick - thoughts?

 

I have FA with respect to jigs/lures (I lost 'em all in the great Pangbourne Robbery) so I'll need a bit of advice on that front!

M