ROGUEPIN

On this phone

Lessons

The tool lessons are the same jobs as the chart buttons. The wheelhouse notes are teaching examples written for RoguePin. They are not interviews with a working captain.

The buttons

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Pin Drop it, name the object, and read the outline as a search area. Deep drop The plan is the place to start the bait, not the mark on the fish. Anchor Set so the boat settles on the spot after the swing. Dock Save the chart and the forecast before you lose the signal. VHF Read the position, bearing, and range out loud.

Wheelhouse notes

Three jobs, in a captain's words

Kelp · Cortes Bank

Work the edge the current is feeding

Dana · six-pack

The outline is a cloud of places the kelp might be, not a promise of one point. I start on the up-current side of that outline, where the current is pushing into the paddies, and I work across it. The bearing on the screen is to the middle. The fish are often on the edge.

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Deep drop · Tanner Bank

Start the bait before the boat is on the mark

Ray · long-range deck

If the spot is a pin on the chart, I do not start the drop when the boat is already on it. I set the target, read the depth, and start far enough up-current that the bait is on the bottom when it reaches the fish. The number the phone gives me is the start, not the bite.

Open the deep drop lesson

Anchor · Santa Barbara Channel

Let go before the bow is over the spot

Lina · owner-operator

I set for the depth, then I drop so the bow sits on the mark after the boat swings. The stern, where the anchor leaves my hand, is not the spot I want to fish. If I wait until I am already there, I end up down-current of it.

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