Trawling Sucks??

[Britto]

Hey Guys,

Anyone else having issues with trawling? I am not sure if it is bugged or if it is just me, but it seems like when you get a circle within the doors and where you think the net will be you don't get any fish, but when you get a circle miles away from where you think it should be you get fish....

I feel like I need to drop the net and trawl for 5 minutes, lift it back up and put it back in again, It takes me well over an hour to only half fill my boat which has a capacity of 250t....

Or does anyone have a good Tutorial that I can watch?

Thanks
Britto

[Dontim]

This is the way I think it works after I've spend 16 hours trawling. :-)

The sonar image shows the view from your net towards the ship from a fixed postion, NOT from the opening of the net. If you look at sensor DP#3 it shows the depth of your net opening. When you first deploy the trawl DP#3 i ussually around 80-90 meters, but as you deploy the lines this drops.

What I hadn't figured out before was that even thoug you stop deploying the lines DP#3 still drops. And when you fill the net with fish DP#3 keeps dropping. Thats why you can get perfect redout indicating that you hit the school dead on, but no fish get in the net. Likewise you can get lots of fish in your net, eventhough there are no schools on the sonar image. Thats simply because the opening of the net is below your vantage point.

So as you fill your net you need to reel in the line and sail faster to get the net opening further up. Also you need to go after schools which are further down.

Lately I've tried sailing faster than the tutorial suggests since it helps keep the net opening closer to the surface. Trawling works best for me if I keep speed around 7-9 knots.

Hope this helps.

[Britto]

Originally posted by Dontim:

This is the way I think it works after I've spend 16 hours trawling. :-)

The sonar image shows the view from your net towards the ship from a fixed postion, NOT from the opening of the net. If you look at sensor DP#3 it shows the depth of your net opening. When you first deploy the trawl DP#3 i ussually around 80-90 meters, but as you deploy the lines this drops.

What I hadn't figured out before was that even thoug you stop deploying the lines DP#3 still drops. And when you fill the net with fish DP#3 keeps dropping. Thats why you can get perfect redout indicating that you hit the school dead on, but no fish get in the net. Likewise you can get lots of fish in your net, eventhough there are no schools on the sonar image. Thats simply because the opening of the net is below your vantage point.

So as you fill your net you need to reel in the line and sail faster to get the net opening further up. Also you need to go after schools which are further down.

Lately I've tried sailing faster than the tutorial suggests since it helps keep the net opening closer to the surface. Trawling works best for me if I keep speed around 7-9 knots.

Hope this helps.

Yeah that seems to work better than trying to chase the bloody fish, I set the net to 100m in length and than around 7-9knots and catching better than I would going slower and hacing net lower :)

[Sir Robinhood]

this is a very good tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy64NHOPvq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=97&v=ZJQPcy9I9RM

[SAMiV]

I just got my first trawler, Lunar Bow, and this trawling business isn't so easy at all... need to read on tutorials some more and watch some YT videos about it...

I've been able to catch some fish, but best so far has been only around 20% full.

[sapper4725]

trawling really sucks I cant seem to do anything with the net I am catching fish but only when they get in the way of the net I am not actually using any skill to move over the shoals as no matter what controls I use it makes no difference on the sonar the first tutourial above says the sonar is broken is this still the case, because its kinda of a game killer to only catch fish by dumb luck and not skill

[Warlocc]

I'm not a fan of trawling either- I'd like to see more boats in the mid range size, for net/long line fishing.

[Leigh]

Originally posted by Warlocc:

I'm not a fan of trawling either- I'd like to see more boats in the mid range size, for net/long line fishing.

While trawling is quite hit and miss, I would like to have this too.

If you are in the LB and it gets to winter, the game says that "trawling is not recommended" but you literally have no choice.

You either go out and spend longer trawling for pollock, which won't give quite as much cash, or do nothing.

You can't even head to a smaller boat without firing crew, which sucks after you've trained em up.

Maybe the LB and Hermes could have some regular net attachments in the store or something, for off season work.

Deploying the trawl itself is not so bad, keep within 2-3 knots (yes, not 4 knots), keep one door deeper than the other by about 20m, and aim for a net opening of about 150m. This will make your symmetry gauge all green and should maximise results.

Now you just need schools of the buggers to fill your net.

[[BKM]Harry]

Originally posted by lei07:

and aim for a net opening of about 150m.

I want to see pics of this 150m net opening! highest i have seen is ~70m

[One Of Five]

Originally posted by BKMHarry:

Originally posted by lei07:

and aim for a net opening of about 150m.

I want to see pics of this 150m net opening! highest i have seen is ~70m

not only that, but how the heck do you control and achieve getting one of the doors deeper than the other? I have seen it happen where one ends up deeper, but that only happens for me after I make a tight turn...

[[BKM]Harry]

Originally posted by OneOfFive:

not only that, but how the heck do you control and achieve getting one of the doors deeper than the other? I have seen it happen where one ends up deeper, but that only happens for me after I make a tight turn...

let out the warp line you want to go deeper.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1316484549

[V_V3gA]

Originally posted by BKMHarry:

Originally posted by lei07:

and aim for a net opening of about 150m.

I want to see pics of this 150m net opening! highest i have seen is ~70m

I imagine he means the width of the trawl doors i.e distance doors are apart from each other. Highest net opening I've achieved is around 60m= w by about 18 high.