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Share some real world maps when you make them on your chart plotter! I tried plotting using my Lowrance Elite Chirp but it freezes up on me just a few feet into it. Also, is there a certain speed that I need to be traveling for things to look like things under me? For example, I can never see a tree with branches on my sonar...it just looks like blobs...but I am assuming this is because I am not moving the correct speed for the sonar to properly display the item below...so I just check depth and temp and ignore the rest....maybe this is its own topic?
 
#1,122 ·
polishfly said:
Share some real world maps when you make them on your chart plotter! I tried plotting using my Lowrance Elite Chirp but it freezes up on me just a few feet into it. Also, is there a certain speed that I need to be traveling for things to look like things under me? For example, I can never see a tree with branches on my sonar...it just looks like blobs...but I am assuming this is because I am not moving the correct speed for the sonar to properly display the item below...so I just check depth and temp and ignore the rest....maybe this is its own topic?
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With downscan or with 2d? With standard 2d sonar, it will always look like big blobs. It's just learning how to differentiate between trees/brush, rock piles, cribs, etc. Also, the colors matter. You have to see what the colors mean for whatever color palette you're using. Much of the time, red is a harder bottom/stronger return, and the lighter blues/greens are softer returns. The downscan should have a better image of it. You should 100% be able to tell what it is in downscan. At least most of the time.
 
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Aux Pleins said:
Rambler said:
The world has shifted on it's axis - Aux bought a FORD!
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Gotta try em all to have some perspective. Besides the general manger being family and giving a great deal, I was swayed to Ford because of the cab size. The Supercrew f150 has the most room out of all the big truck makers. I really wish I could have pushed my Silverado to 250k miles, it would have made it. The Silverado had 180k and the engine was in great shape and felt like she did when she was new. No rattles, squeaks, or misses. Some wear on the body, rusty undercarriage components that I recently replaced, few electrical gadgets replaced. Other than that it was a great fishing truck. But being only an extended cab with a small bench seat and lacking rear leg room, the wife and kids started giving me grief and we were overdue for more of a family style fishing truck. :lol:

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Nice! Two to many doors for a truck though. :wink:

I've had a difficult time finding a new 1/2 ton standard cab, V8, 4x4 the last few years.
 
#1,126 ·
DasGoby said:
Would love a report on how they work. I know the fishing might be tough but any detail on the weed guard, action, does the tail float, etc.
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Goby - been meaning to report but things have sort of gotten out of hand lately.

Went out to Busse last Thursday with the intention of fishing my favorite spot. Unfortunately the gate was closed so I went to Salt Creek below the dam. Started with a Keitech & worked my way upstream. No hits. Fished the pool below the dam for a while with the same results so I tied on a new ned rig & fished my way back down to Arlington pool. Still nothing even though I really tried to fish it slow.

Can't really comment on the ned rig since this was my 1st time trying one (except for the time with Badger). Don't know if the plastic floated - couldn't see it.

Stopped on the way home at Wooddale Grove & threw the ned rig some more. Same results. Still couldn't see it. Can say that the weed guard seemed to do the job. Wooddale Grove is already really weedy.

Talked to a couple of other old farts there & they weren't catching anything either - both were using worms.
 
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Rambler said:
Can't really comment on the ned rig since this was my 1st time trying one (except for the time with Badger). Don't know if the plastic floated - couldn't see it.
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If you decide to come out to fish Potawotami, or goons, or thereabouts on a weekday this spring - PM me. If I've got time I'll stop by and give you a couple of Z-man trailers.
 
#1,128 ·
Grain said:
If you decide to come out to fish Potawotami, or goons, or thereabouts on a weekday this spring - PM me. If I've got time I'll stop by and give you a couple of Z-man trailers.
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YOU DA MAN!!
It's only a matter of time before I hit the 'goons. A bit more time before I hit Potawotami. Thanks!
 
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Grabbed a few Jackall jerkbaits and a couple of Sling Blade swim jigs the other day. And a new spool of Suffix 832 braid in ghost(white) 10lb to spool up a new rod and reel combo for chatters/spinnerbaits. The rod and reel are a 13 Fishing Fate Black Gen 2, 7'1, MH, Fast, paired up with a new Abu Garcia Revo X-hs. The HS version is a 7.3:1 ratio instead of the standard 6.6:1

Working from home and being on my computer all day are a huge negative for me right now. Lol. All I do is browse fishing gear, and keep buying shit.
 
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Rambler said:
Went out to Busse last Thursday... so I went to Salt Creek below the dam. Started with a Keitech & worked my way upstream. No hits. Fished the pool below the dam for a while with the same results... fished my way back down to Arlington pool. Still nothing even though I really tried to fish it slow.

Stopped on the way home at Wooddale Grove & threw the ned rig some more. Same results.

Talked to a couple of other old farts there & they weren't catching anything either - both were using worms.
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The hysterical bucketing and hording of fish has begun. :thumbdown: As chaos escalates, writing citations for fishing violations will be the least of the authority's concerns. Hopefully, the gutting of our local spots will be recoverable.
 
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RonG said:
The hysterical bucketing and hording of fish has begun. :thumbdown: As chaos escalates, writing citations for fishing violations will be the least of the authority's concerns. Hopefully, the gutting of our local spots will be recoverable.
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Wow - now there's a conspiracy theory! Of course it could be that a) they just weren't biting, b) I'm a shitty fisherman or c) both the former and the latter. :D
 
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RonG said:
The hysterical bucketing and hording of fish has begun. :thumbdown: As chaos escalates, writing citations for fishing violations will be the least of the authority's concerns. Hopefully, the gutting of our local spots will be recoverable.
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Wow - now there's a conspiracy theory! Of course it could be that a) they just weren't biting, b) I'm a shitty fisherman or c) both the former and the latter. :D
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Nah, the fish are gone. I just got back from an hour and a half on the Fox. Not a bite. Not even a porpoising carp within sight. No muskrats. No beavers. Someone ate them all. All that was left were lots of bugs and noisy ducks flying around and a woodpecker on each side of the river.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a **** there yet this year and the chipmunk that lives (lived) under my back stoop is AWOL.
 
#1,137 ·
Just got a new Whopper Plopper 75. Also a new Casio watch. I consider the watch fishing gear since it's waterproof & cost only $20.
 
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RonG said:
I'd sue them. They stole that from here!
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Yes, yes I did.

Recent aquisitions for me include some Yo-zuri Mini Vibes, a Shimano SLX (with a rod, don't know which one though since it hasn't arrived yet), an Abu Garcia Veritas baitcasting rod, some prototype baits from a major manufacturer, Helix 7, bunch of ice jigs that will be on the market next winter, and some new plastics that, a bunch of Jackall blade baits, and other odds and ends.
 
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Jaxon said:
RonG said:
I'd sue them. They stole that from here!
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Yes, yes I did.

Recent aquisitions for me include some Yo-zuri Mini Vibes, a Shimano SLX (with a rod, don't know which one though since it hasn't arrived yet), an Abu Garcia Veritas baitcasting rod, some prototype baits from a major manufacturer, Helix 7, bunch of ice jigs that will be on the market next winter, and some new plastics that, a bunch of Jackall blade baits, and other odds and ends.
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You work with Midwest Outdoors?
 
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