Day 148 of 150

Day 148: The Fish Finder Says No Fish

On a boat on the Akhtuba near Volgograd, two old fishermen have taken along a younger friend who has brought a sonar fish finder and a fishing app.

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Dialogue

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  1. A

    Ну что, Андрюха, что там твой телевизор показывает? Где рыба-то?

    So, Andryukha, what's your telly showing? Where are the fish?

  2. B

    Да какая рыба, Петрович, у меня опять клюёт! Третий лещ за полчаса, и каждый, ни много ни мало, на кило.

    Never mind his fish, Petrovich, I've got another bite! Third bream in half an hour, and every one a kilo, no less.

  3. C

    Ничего не понимаю. Эхолот показывает пустое дно, глубина четыре метра, ни одной рыбы, а приложение обещает клёв ноль из пяти.

    I don't get it. The fish finder shows an empty bottom, four metres deep, not a single fish, and the app gives the bite a zero out of five.

  4. A

    А рыба, сынок, твоё приложение не читала. Ветер с юга, вода тёплая, значит, лещ стоит у бровки, и никакой экран тебе этого не скажет.

    But the fish haven't read your app, son. The wind's from the south, the water's warm, so the bream are holding at the drop-off, and no screen will tell you that.

  5. C

    Так эхолот ровно это и должен показывать: бровку, ямы и рыбу. Может, у меня настройки сбились?

    But that's exactly what a fish finder is supposed to show: the drop-off, the holes and the fish. Maybe my settings have gone wrong?

  6. B

    Может, и настройки. Прибор за сорок тысяч, а весь улов пока у нас, на хлеб и старые удочки.

    Maybe it's the settings. A forty-thousand-rouble gadget, and so far the whole catch is ours, on bread and old rods.

  7. A

    А всё потому, что ты полдня смотришь в экран, а не на поплавок. Вон у тебя, между прочим, уже минуту клюёт.

    That's because you've been staring at the screen for half the day instead of at your float. Look, you've had a bite for a minute now, by the way.

  8. C

    Где? Ой, тяну, тяну! Николай Петрович, подсачек, давайте подсачек, он здоровый!

    Where? Oh, I'm pulling, I'm pulling! Nikolai Petrovich, the landing net, give me the net, it's a big one!

  9. B

    Поздравляю с первым лещом! Вот теперь видно, что рыбак, а рыбак рыбака, как известно, видит издалека, и без всякого эхолота.

    Congratulations on your first bream! Now we can see you're a real angler, and it takes one to know one, as they say, no fish finder needed.

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