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Winter in western Kansas is lasting too long, but the sunsets are pretty.

I can assure you Highy, that you can never be certain what the reflections you see on the screen of an echo sounder represent. I spent a substantial part of my working life hunched over a very expensive echo sounder running exactly the same sounding lines year after year. I can say that I have picked up many sharks on an echo sounder. Sharks do not have a swim bladder. How do I know they were sharks? … I could see them! A good indication of a potential fish are the parabolic reflections (or fish arcs in marketing speak) you get as you move over a fish and the measured distance to it changes. The thickness of the line forming the arc can indicate the size of the fish. You only get an echo from a change in density. The strength of the echo depends on how much the signal has been attenuated (absorbed) during its path, the degree of density change it reflects off, and the angle at which it strikes it. It helps to understand the physics of sound. A low frequency (wide angle) will penetrate further than a high frequency (narrow beam). So a low frequency helps locate a solid bottom beneath silt whereas a high frequency will show weed better. The science is very simple. Understanding the results is incredibly complicated. There is no substitute for experience but the Deeper software does a pretty good job at interpreting the results for the average layman. I assumed your post was Deeper's reply but, having read it, I still can't get my head around CHIRP technology.

Hi Chill, Yeah I'm using my Avid 2 man HQ exclusively at the moment. Had it for about 5 years I guess, its still perfect, lightweight for it's size, easy to put up - tbh I have no faults. Think newer versions are even better. You'll not go wrong with AVID gear IMO You wanna buy a Ridgemonkey 1 man? 🤣

One from a few years ago.

In my day, the equipment needed to do everything the Deeper does now, cost several tens of thousands of pounds and weighed around 200 kilos. For me, the Deeper is a miracle in a tennis ball. The biggest omission is not to be able to put in a tide height. This means that if your water level changes between sessions, as it does on the big reservoirs near here, you can't match up surveys done at different times of the year.

That was the reply from Deeper I got this morning....

Glad you sorted it, I soak my line for a bit then use a line spooler these days, I find it works well and gives you a fairly even tension, I took £90 in the end for them, another thing I don't have to store now, I'm quite enjoying getting money back rather than just spending 😂

4/4/2022 I caught and released an Eastern Creek Chubsucker with a 1/8 oz twister tail leadhead jig on 4 lb test line in Colliers Mills WMA, NJ, USA, that was bigger than the all tackle world record. Foul hooked fish are disqualified from world record consideration. If I hook it in the mouth next time, I may apply for the record. I know where it lives.

Thanks . After I’d calmed down a bit 🙄 I tried it again and this time it turned out a lot better . Not perfect by any means but a lot lot lot better and more than acceptable to me thanks . I hate maintenance .

I know @kevtaylor likes an avid product, he might be able to help

Went to Cornwall on the weekend to toast a friend’s husband who sadly suddenly passed away this was there favourite beach

One autumn the setting sun briefly lit up this scene on the river Lot, France. Quite a magical moment which I was fortunate to capture!

Took this one this morning from my front garden.

Here is a shot of a flying fish I caught a few years ago. Didn't notice it when I took the photo, only when I put it on the computer.

Sunrise & sunset on the same lake different times of year

Looking through pictures, found this one from June when on a flathead catfish sesh.