How does one trawl?

[Rufert]

I've been trying to figure out how the read the, err heatmap thing on the trawl interface. It has the triangle which has the boat at the top, and the drawl doors as two dots what I assume is behind it.

I have no idea how to read this. I know the big red blobs are fish. And I assume I need to get them into the triangle.

Is the view to be understood as depth like the sonar? With the boat on top? Or is it top down with the doors behind me? I've tried turning while looking at it to move over towards the blobs, but what happens on screen doesn't make sense to me.

If it is depth, giving the wires more length only seems to put the further apart, not deeper.

I'm at a loss.

[grolbu]

I'm still learning, more or less by watching youtube and making stuff up as I go. Here's some things I have found work.

1 - whatever you see on the main the sonar doesn't matter. The trawling sonar is completely unrelated. You can trawl anywhere the water is deep enough, and you will get fish.

2 - get the crew up to set the trawl net then send them back to bed until you've got the net back up to 10 metres and want to haul it back on board, you only need the crew for a couple of minutes at a time.

3 - on the map mark yourself a course 5-10nm long, set the autopilot chugging along at 4-5 knots, then dump the net out.

4 - what you see on the trawl sonar is the view from the net looking forwards towards the boat. Both gates have to be below 50 metres to catch anything. If you see a blob of fish you can lower or raise the net to try and match it but don't get stressed about it and don't worry about turning to line up with it, there are plenty more fish in the sea :)

5 - if everything on the spider is green you catch more fish, but you still catch fish even if some things are red. if the distance is red that means the mouth of the net is too wide and you need to speed up a bit to stretch everything tighter. Trawl speed is 2 to 4.5 knots. Just chug along scooping fish up a few at a time until the net hits 60%, then slow the autopilot down to 1.5 knots and start hauling the net in. If you catch more fish on the way up bonus ! Once you get a gate above 50 metres you'll stop catching fish and it's time to wake the crew up to haul the net in.

6 - once the net is within 10 metres you should be able to haul it up. Once it's empty you can set it again and speed the boat back up to trawl speed then either (if you have a wet tank to hold the fish) send the crew back to bed, or (if you have freezers) start them gutting and stacking. Everything has to be gutted and stacked. Freezing is optional.

7 - when you get back don't be scared to fast travel to every port on the map and just sell one type of fish at each if that gets you the best price.

8 - good luck :)

[AngryWolvie]

I am in dire need of help. I've tried to do that pelagic trawling for 6 real life hours abd I can't catch a dang thing.