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I'll be going out tomorrow morning on a charter in the fog, but I know I am properly equiped with an open array radar and two chart plotters. But I also added a high flyer deflector on a small pole that goes into one of the rocket launchers on the T-Top. This helps my boat look bigger to other boats with radar. Also I use an auto hailer so boats fishing around me know where I am by sound as well. It's difficult enough keeping yourself on your numbers, watch your radar, and leader fish without having to remember to keep blasting your horn.
When traveling to my spot I often plan a slightly alternate route and stay out of the main channels where most boats will apt to be, especially the ones working off just a GPS because they will make sure to stay right in the channel. While traveling you need to keep a close eye on the radar and assume the boats around you don't see you and be ready to react. If I didn't have radar I would stay home on days I know are going to be foggy.
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