 Those white things are fish. They're all fish. The white things are, yeah. What's that like to be perch and pike? Yeah, a perch roach, green marks in the bottom. It could be a mooring. Oh, I see. Yeah. Just with the chains scraped along. Yeah, a successful one. That's washer. I'll get the underwater thing, see it. Oh, I've got it now, yeah. Yeah, go for it. First time I used the fish finder, I managed to trawl all day. Not get snagged, not lose any allures, not run aground. It's a much straightforward day, yeah. It's much easier. But then when you go on, these ones here, you go on to all the stuff we've got, yeah. Side vision, down vision and all kind of stuff, but I just tend to stick to these pictures here because it suits me for seeing the down bigger, seeing the bait. I see the fish I could drop the cannonball down to. If they're all fish, it's marked. They're all fish? They fish, yeah. That's a big group of fish, bait fish. That's the individual fish. What's the individual fish? That's the individual fish there. That's a group of bait fish. That's a big group of bait fish as well. So the color's the density. Yeah. Right. There's more fish there, just off the bottom as well. See, that doesn't shoot the cannonball. That one does, that one doesn't. Because that's like a pinpoint beam that gives you, so it doesn't pick up the cannonball. It's like a floodlight. That'll show it. I see. There's just been a spotlight and a floodlight. The deeper it is, the bigger it gets. It's like you getting a torch and putting a torch down there and then lifting it up as you lift it up. You can cover more of the bottom. Just like that. With 30 feet, you'll be seeing about 10 feet of the bottom. 30 feet, I want to see about 10 feet. Ah, fish, come on. You can mark that and then come back next week and it's not there. That cruise, it's a bait ball. You don't get trees wandering about the lock. 26 feet, it's too deep to be weed. That's the side view once. That's just seeing that show efficiently past there. That's in line just off the bottom. For me, the main benefit is mapping. I could turn that off and just have the mapping because it's not having a street map of the lock. You know all the depths. You can buy charts with the charts. It's just like a line of numbers showing you like 70, 60, 50, 40, 30 feet. That's giving you holes and lumps and bumps and everything like that. This is much better. And the lock is up and down. And this changes as well. You can adjust it to take in that. Perfect. You see where this thing pays off when you get along that shore. See that cladded shoreline? That's full of lumps and bumps and holes. That's been made by... Here we've got another bit here coming up. See, we've got that. That's 12 feet. I'm at 35 just now. I'm going to wind this up. 20. I can keep going in until safe to get to 25. And that just goes straight up with that. You see the angles going up out just now. And that's in the wide bits, which you get to those bits. Turn this around. It should avoid getting snagged. Cannonballs at 20, which is there. 22, 20. He says how sharp the drop-off is. You actually cross into that. You see it. You cross into that. But the lures would have been behind you, so they'd still be... I'd check them anyway. I hate dragging bunches of the weed about it. Every time I do check them, I find there's no weed and you shouldn't have checked them. They end up getting tangled, so... I'll check them anyway. The lure's fine. It's fine anyway, so... I'm going to check them all. This is why I don't like coming out of the rough weather. You can't do all this. You're having to constantly stand up, stay alive, and both getting blown all over the place. You let go of it everywhere, so... This is why it's all like the calm weather. Stick this down here. Watch on there. There's fish at baithead mount. You just put the fish in to secure it with a couple of cocktail sticks. And it swims. It's like a real fish. Absolutely brilliant. The rod is great. It's getting in two different sizes. That's the big size. We've got a 7-inch mackerel in it, so... See if you can put it out and get a fish to get it now. Right, so... The way that rod's pulsing. See with that dead bait mount. As you see a fish swimming like that, you see the rod pulsing as well. The rod's wobbling. It seems not to affect. It shows you how fish spin and grab the bait, something as you get up. You get off that. You see it because it's grabbing it from the back. And it hangs on it from the back and hooks it over near the back. Or it might be when it snaps up and from the tail. So it's... It's good for that. It's showing you how fish grab things and how many fish come up to follow if things are good while. Take a look at it and swim away. Maybe just mouth the bait. You can see it getting mouthed. So it's very good for that. Sometimes you don't know. Just saw the rod go one bank. It's one hit. But the fish has got a hold of the bait, grabbed it from the back and hangs on it for over a minute. If I hadn't seen that fish go out, I'd be still trolling about. A fish's head. That was it. 50-pound braid, 30-pound moaner on both down rigs. Just because they take a lot of abuse from rubber bands and then having to pull them to release them and stuff like that. And there's a lacking big cannonball right in front of the thing. The fish isn't going to be shy. I'm going to do jigging. I'm going to use... Jigging or drop-shopping. I'm going to use that because you can see structure and stuff. If there's a tree down there, you see a tree. You've got a lot more fine detail with that. But for me, open water fishing, where I want to see lots of things, I want to see the bottom coming up, and I prefer the standard fish finder view. I actually get the side vision as well. That's okay, but I'm actually getting the water depth. The minute you get a deeper water, that becomes wider. There's that fish there. This fish there is sitting off the bottom. But we show we group of fish. So some guys can work out there's another group of fish there. Um... You know... It depends on the method you're using. What you're like. If you're seafishing and you're coming up to rex and stuff like that in reefs, you're going to see things like that. It's good for that. There's a fish just on the surface there as well. Just such a splashed there. There's another fish splashed over there. This shoreline is like a staircase that goes down like that. But then it shallows up in there as well. There's a lot of this stuff with this whole bottom of the lockout. So... The glaciers carved out the lock. It pushed all the debris down, so it's just all, you know, boulder fields and everything. So it's all up and down, up and down, up and down. There's a bit there. See over by those trees over there. There's a bit there that goes from 20 feet to 6 feet in the length of the boat. It's like that. I've got it on here. I've got it on that one as well, I think. I've got a skull and crossbones here. If something pops up, you put a skull and crossbones on it so you know not to go there. It might not be in that one. You have the pro mapping card in. It just says all the details right to the card. You don't have to go home and edit it. You did with that one, the old one. You have to put it into your computer, open up the software, save all the data, go back, save it back to the card, and then next week you find out what you've got and what to do with the old one. I'd see that and I'd drive through it and then I'd go back home and see what I've got all of it. That one, you drive through it and you can see if you haven't got it just turned back around. Go over it again. There'll come any more contours that it gives you. See how it gives you loads of contour lines. That just gives you a few. There it is there. It's coming up just in here. What's the benefit of having both of those? Some bits of the lock. I'm driving in the depths. So it's just not a backup, it's really just information that's not on that will be on that. And say after about another year, that's got about five years of data on it. I've only been using that for a year. There's dates in here as well, there's roach, there's chub, there's barbel, there's green, there's trout, there's everything. There's tons of things in here. It could be powing as well up in the surface. Loads of stuff. They're quite unique to the locker though. It's a herring. It can land locks in size age. And it's a fresh water herring. And you just get them in the locker, see big shoals on the fish finder sometimes, or you get them up in the surface. The back's breaking the water. What's the best catches in here? The heaviest fish is £14.10. But something else with me, he got one at 16, one of the guys in the shop. So, it's 33 inches long, we reckon it's 16. So, I gave it 16. You're not bitter. No, they're just fish. This is scallion crossbones here. I'm going to turn out that for again. So that's a nasty bit there. You see it marked on that one, I haven't put an icon on this one yet for it. So, we're just Another good thing with this is that big green line, the coastline where you're heading to. So you know you're heading away from there. I'm going to put it back to fish finder view. You'd also save screenshots as well. If you want to take a picture of something that's interesting, you can do that. So, that's where I've been. That's all my tracks I've covered. That should really be secret knowledge. But anyway, that's it. It's just filling in the map detail. That's areas of map. That's that bit I haven't done. So, just driving through there, it just fills it all in. You don't have to go home, update it, find out what you've got. It's just all there. I could turn back around and go over that bit again, but I'll do that another day. Just a lot of fish, no? Yeah, uh-huh. 40 feet. Down to 35. So, that's it going down just there. Could be a big bream or, I don't know, find out. That's banging. That's 20 feet and that's 35 feet. Oh, better. Bring us up. We're going to check it just to make sure. Yeah, we're just dragging a bunch of weed about the waist of a rod. It's fine. The heaviest sound from the lock was caught just along that bit there at the stables. 44 pounds, I think it was. So, we've got it down. We've got it set at 10 and 15. We don't have two at the same depth because if you come into a shallow, they can't wind you up at the same time. So, that's one of the ones that's deepest to wind that up into the other one. You can see that rod's pulsing. That's where that spoon bounced about the slider. You rock it, pulsing away. Sometimes you do it and the pulsing stops. You think, that rod should be pulsing. Then you find out there's a fish on it which is swimming along holding the bait. You just see the rod's not running right, so you think something's wrong with that. Something's got to smack that macro. It's swimming away. Something's got to come and hit it. I think you just have to put the bait in front of the fish. I don't think it's too fussy of whatever bait it is. Making them last longer? Just to integrate and follow up? Just the freshest of the bait? Freshest of the bait. Some baits that are tough, like Char are tough. They're real leathery skins. They're really tough. Dace, I find when I get daced in the fourth, get them early in the year and they just fall apart. Get them from now. September onwards, they're a lot tougher. Roach are good. Roach are got nice tough skins. You got a weed trout from a hill lock from a burn that's years old but it's very squall. They're tough. These wee bait heads are good here because they've got that captivated pin. You just stick the bait in there, put the pin through. It's held in by a part of the trace. So everything's all held in one go. It's a rotating bait head. It rolls in an arc, but they work. Just get the fishes, ones that are slightly too big for it, but it should still work. Pinch the bait head in, put that pin through the hole there. It's right through the fish's head and it comes out over here somewhere. That's it. That's the fish held in. It's just hanged down the side. You see the bottom, you know there's nowhere near the bottom and with that, you can see the bottom coming up to meet you so you can get away from it. That's a 15. 15 and 10. You don't want to just have a depth counter? Yeah, a depth counter on them. It's got a trawling ball up. What about this one? It just means it lines out and it's for jet skiers to come round the back of your boat and cut your lines. It doesn't work. It's up to 19 feet, so this is full of holes and a wee hills and all that kind of stuff. This one you have to watch all the rods, especially that one there. I don't know exactly what depths it's at. I need to watch for that one. This is coming to another shallow bit there. Turn away from that. It's on that map. 16 is coming up again. This bit here, if you look, it shows you that it's 25 feet, that's 16 feet, that's 15 feet, that's 19. That's up and down, up and down, up and down. You're all over the place up here. You have to have your wits about your trawling this bit. You can't really go and do something else because all of a sudden you could be in 10 feet of water. Everyone's getting snagged. You're not telling me the fact. Save the wind behind you and push me along. That's the fish. This is where I'm glad I've only got four rods out, not six. Could you get those bags up, Craig? Just pull them in the boat so the fish doesn't run into them. It might be a trout the way it's fighting, but we'll see. Because a warm water pike fight really well. It's a pike. This is the 8 foot 6 fly rod. It's stripped down immediately down to your rod. Maybe about what, eight pounds, something like that? It's hooked on the outside of the mouth. It's just going to unhook him out of the boat, okay? Would you want him in the boat for a picture? I don't know if I can. It's bigger than I thought. I'll measure him. Get a line from him. 34 inches. Maybe about 10. Okay, so sticking back in. Get back in here again. First thing I did when the fish took, I looked at a damn rigger. That was at 9 feet. We're in 15 feet of water, so he knew it was a fish. That's a fish. There wasn't the bottom end of that. Could have been a straight log, but you know, it's unusual. The way it fought at the start, I thought it would have been a trout, just the bang, bang, banging. But, you know, warm water pike do fight really hard. The pieces of foam in the rods, so that if the rod falls in, it floats. The fish are awake. The fish takes the rod, that banging like that. See it bouncing. A big fish can do it, or a wee fish can do it, but if it doesn't break the band, just lift the rod out, wind down to it, thumb on the spool, and just jank it like that, across the band. That's why I've got a heavier line, because, you know, I've got to do that. If you did that with, say, a 15 pound line, the end of that would break the line, and you end up losing the fish. So there, handy, when you do get a fish, you can just swing everything out of the way and clear the dicks. I've had fish, take me when I'm doing this, as soon as I'm doing this, they just pull the line free. I've had that a few times. Take a wash and go for the down rig. I don't like having two at the same time, because if something goes wrong, I don't know which one to grab first. One at a time. That's Port Nell, and that's where the record pike was taken. Just in there. Tommy Morgan got it in 1947, I think it was. This thing here, if you want to fill this, this thing here is called a retro ease. It brings the cannonball into your hand, but it's there. We're already having to swing out here and get it, so you put it back out again. So 45 feet for that one. It's because it's deep out here, may as well try it. 20 feet for that other one. You see that lock on, it shows a char. So I think that's a pound. And you see it in other fish finders as well. So what size is that? There's one. This is where we're going. You have to mark it back, and see how many yards we're going, but it's bigger fish above them. It's strange. And the cannonballs above it and below it. There, and we've got one. 45 as well. 45 feet is all of one. That'll be the 45 foot one down there. So that's going through those bigger fish there. So we'll see if something's interested in it. There's also this wee... I own school. It's wee humps there as well. It's about 12 feet. It's not just a big deep channel. It goes down and there's a lump. Then it goes down. For me, the best conditions are just flat calm like this. Because I'm standing up. I've got to attend to rods. I'm in deep water, I'm in open water as well. So just flat calm. It's the opposite of all salmon anglers, but I just like flat calm conditions. It makes life a lot easier. You can steer better. You can control your speed a lot better. It just makes life simple. Do you ever forget a wind on my lock? For me, an easterly or a southerly, because that then doesn't make big waves. I don't like westerlies because the time they come across the lock, it's like surf over there. I don't like northerlies because they kill people. A easterly or a southerly. I just saw a flash and the rod just went and I realised there's a pike taking it. I don't know why something hasn't hit that. To be a reasonable size to hit it right enough, but I don't know why something hasn't hit it. I'm not going to put it out to 60 feet because I've run a wee bit shallower this time. It's a needle in the haystack. It's like a three-dimensional game of battleships. You're just going about looking, trying to put your lure in front of that fish or your bait in front of that fish. And a lot of luck as well. Determination and luck, that's what you need. Chairman James has thoughts for the day.