Read the drift
Schools keep moving while you draw. Lead the fish instead of tracing where they were.
CHART 08 / CORALFIN BASIN / 44° LOOP
DRAW AROUND
THE BIG ONE.
Sketch one clean loop around a moving school. Save your line, avoid protected waters, and let geometry do the fishing.
Open the chart ↘ BASS SCHOOL PROTECTED GOLDEN MARK
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SURVEY
№ 08LINE CLEAR
№ 08LINE CLEAR
PLOT×ENCIRCLE×RELEASE×PROTECT×REPEAT
LIVE HYDROGRAPHIC EXERCISE
Close the loop.
Press on open water, draw around fish, then return to your starting point. A valid line closes when both ends meet.
SCORE0000
LOOPS10
CATALOGUED0/18
LINE LEFT900 m
WHITE = SAFE · VERMILION = PROTECTEDBEST SURVEY 0000
FIELD METHOD / THREE MARKS
Economy of line.
Keep it clean
Wide loops catch more, but a single protected marker voids the whole survey.
Close precisely
Return within the start ring before the line meter reaches zero.
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FROM THE BLUEPRINT ROOM
The shortest line tells the best story.
Loopline began as a surveyor’s exercise: map a moving school without disturbing the protected shallows. Somewhere along the way, the maps became a game and the biggest bass learned to dodge circles.
∞ POSSIBLE LOOPS0 REAL FISH DISTURBED