Fishing without GPS : Fishing Polls

Matt Flynn · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: Fishing without GPS

Might not have GPS next year!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25512011-5014239,00.html

Although I suspect they'll fix it, given it's a defence technology.

But imagine it. Fishing without GPS would be ...

PilbaraBrad · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

probably some scam to make us all fork out a bucket load of cash to jump on to the new system (economic stimulus??)

2rods · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject:

Bring it on I say... would be he best thing for the fish stocks ever...IMHO

There are still a heap of us who remember days of old when your GPS and sounder were all in one unit called Grandad....

max · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:

It would be great for fish stocks,some of the offshore places that you couldnt get landmarks off wouldnt get touched

dodgyone · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:59 pm Post subject:

I remember those days 2rods. My Grandfather used to run a dive charter boat for years before GPS was around. Can remember him plotting a course over 10kms and finding the smallest spots week after week.
Was pretty quick to get a GPS when they came out though. Believe his first unit was a Furuno and cost over 6g. :bonk:

And that was well before chartplotter days too.

Unfortunately poor old Grandads arent up to the offshore stuff anymore.

Hows Galileo coming along? Up and running yet?

doggies66 · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject:

I grew up in the Whitsundays and we were out in the boat most weekends, I remember that my old man use to find hie spots every time just using a chart and a compass on the end of his binos. I still remember when he got his first dept sounder, it used a paper roll and a scrib like what you see on a lie detector.

fishfanatic · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: No GPS

I suspect that people would probably be forced to become better fishermen..concentrate more on finding the right terrain/bottom rather than just looking at the waypoint. Be a lot of marks lost and a whole lot more places found I reckon.
Might do us all a lot of good....anyone wanna buy two GPS units?? :grin:

tinnieman · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

That article is a major scare piece!

It might have an impact on military applications, but for general use I doubt we will see any major difference (apart from longer acquisition of signals possibly).

See:
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/20 ... ont-panic/

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=650277 ... 57008DA7A1

jarrah jack · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject:

Have only been using a gps for a year and am amazed at what they do and how easy they make life. Before that I used commonsense always had a chart and the compass was mandatory. I tried learning how to use one of those sex things but the calculations are mindboggling.

meter_seeker · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:22 pm Post subject:

No drama, just gotta brush up on my celestial dust off the sexton roll out the charts and invest in a gyro compass :grin:

....everyone has had it to easy for to long :lolpoint:

, great skills to harness once ya get the vibe of things :mrgreen:

ronje · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:01 am Post subject: gyro

hi

Prefer true north indicator rather than magnetic north indicator?

Knew people who used to add the variation going out on trip and take it off coming back.

Strangely enough they used to get back ok.

They were convinced that they could put the position they went to on a chart.

It didn't really matter where they actually were. as long as they went out on the same course each time they found the spot.

regards
regards

double haul · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject:

This time of year down the daly i dont even turn on my sounder till im ready to start trolling. :shock:

Just ask dutto what i had to do last weekend to get past wolliana sand bar. 8-)

As for the gps ofshore iv got a navman and they harldy ever work. :rofl:

Rug · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

2rods wrote:

Bring it on I say... would be he best thing for the fish stocks ever...IMHO

There are still a heap of us who remember days of old when your GPS and sounder were all in one unit called Grandad....

I remember before they started building the high risers in town. the water tower behind NT house was a great bearing, then they built NT house :banghead:

. the old travelodge was a good mark too.

best thing my grandad tought me was pissing on the fence will kill the termites.

natural sparks · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:20 pm Post subject:

It would be no worse than it is for me right now...............
Cant catch shite from my place
Reckon if i could get on the water id have a fair chance at least
GPS or not if you aint on or in or near the fricken water you got no chance

Whinge over :fishing:

cuddlescooper · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:26 am Post subject: Re: Fishing without GPS

my best trips are when I turn the GPS off and go out looking for new ground that hasnt been pumped. Every time I find a new spot I clean up. Needless to say I mark it once I have found it but goes to show that if we couldnt go back to the same spot time and time again we would have far more fish available as each spot would be rested after getting hit. :fishy:

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