[JonFisher]

I was THIS close to going to the rigs! What time of day were you at that last large rig?

[JonFisher]

Yes! I’ll be fishing eastern shore of Borgne Saturday morning due to a time crunch / prior engagement later that afternoon.

Unsure about this tide range…

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[JonFisher]

Maybe

Just maybe

Since we have a decent SE wind from now til Friday night, perhaps the water will be pushed up against the west side of Borgne

And Saturday wee hours of night, wind goes to 0, which maybe allows water to rebound back towards east side, helping that very lackluster rising tide Saturday morning

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[JonFisher]

Did you recently update your garmin?

Reason I ask, I also had transducer issues yesterday. I saw that my garmin was asking me to update. I declined. I did, however, sync with my iPhone garmin navionics app, as I had several points loaded on there that I wanted to populate on my boat unit. I’m not sure if that defaulted an update on my unit or not. Just today, I was speaking with my wife’s uncle who is a bass master fisherman. He told me all of his buddies including himself are in experiencing issues after the latest garmin update. I’ve got to call garmin tomorrow to start the diagnostic process on mine.

[JonFisher]

It was very difficult to leave. Hell, my engine didn’t even start when I tried. Thought to myself, maybe this is my sign to stay longer. Unfortunately, I had several obligations at the office.

[JonFisher]

The kill switch is made into the ignition switch, which got replaced this morning too. Here’s the old one I yanked out.

[JonFisher]

half crank, no start. intermittently…

Starts strong from the dock, and then ride around, stop to fish, may or may not start. if it turns over, it’s like a half crank. Wait 15-60 min, and it fires right up. There’s times where the engine fires up 100% of the time during an entire day of fishing with starting / stopping 7-12 times.

Been through all of the common things, and I’ve been chasing this for 9 months. I’m swapping the starter assembly tomorrow.

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[JonFisher]

maybe they are using DSC(digital selective calling) via MMSI numbers. I know my VHF has a personal MMSI number.

[JonFisher]

I’m siding with you on this. Quite some time ago (let’s just say over a year), someone mentioned that to me. At the time, I had no real interest in taking that conversation any further, so I accepted the answer and moved on. I find that I do that often with certain things that I’m not ‘that’ interested in.

I’ll scan around more frequently to see if i can pick them up. I’ve lately just been putting it on 69 and not paying any mind to it. 69 is the channel me and a few other fishing buddies stay on when down there.

[JonFisher]

Shell beach guides all chat on a private (paid for) channel.

[JonFisher]

I wasn’t saying I’d fish the west side. I’m staying on the east side. I was hypothesizing that the wind (or lack thereof) may create a large tide swing than the tide chart shows, which could help me on the east side (more water movement). I’m certain I didn’t articulate this well initially.

[JonFisher]

[JonFisher]

Keith, the eastern shore will be clean. I’ll be on vhf ch.69 if you’re out there Saturday morning.

[JonFisher]

Very nice. I had thought Saturday night when I was driving home that I should have thrown a topwater when I was on the eastern shore…

When you say you knew it wasn’t going to be a quantity day, what led you to that conclusion?

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[JonFisher]

Mark this day. I will forever go down in history as the catalyst to you becoming “Devin the trash fish legend”. 🤣