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Post by Whiskers on Dec 27, 2006 23:43:14 GMT -6
Santa Clause brought me one of the battery operated fish finders I have been wanting to try out.I think maybe it was Donkey I was talking with about them last summer.My plan is to use it on the front of the pontoon boat(I have a f.f. mounted on the capt.stand).I am going to try pushing the transducer/float out ahead of me into coves and log jams with a couple of those folding fiberglass tent poles that are about 10-12 feet long.I have several of the poles and they fold up in a bag about 18 or 24 inches long.I don't know how it will work but I'm sure to experiment with it and figure something out. it runs on 4 AA batteries 35' transducer cable 45* td angle 98' depth capability    |
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Post by Sinker on Dec 31, 2006 10:03:41 GMT -6
I hope the one you got is the best and I hope all of'em are good. But if they were that good I just don't understand why some company that makes the ones attaching to boats didn't buy the patent and bury it like the auto industry, or oil industry has done with economical carburators. Maybe they won't hurt that market as much as I think they would.
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Post by Whiskers on Dec 31, 2006 10:42:23 GMT -6
I think the ones I started out looking at was made by Hummingbird,I don't remember for sure though.This just happened to be on sale at Harbor Freight Tools,some little off brand outfit(I doubt they threaten any of the big brand guys.lol).It looks like if it works it would be handy for bank fishing though. Here is the link... Harbor Freight Fish Finder |
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Post by donkey on Feb 21, 2007 0:02:25 GMT -6
Have ya tried this thing out yet? I'm anxious to hear some reports bout it.
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Post by Whiskers on Feb 21, 2007 1:18:22 GMT -6
No I haven't tried it yet but I think it will be handy for bank fishing or floating it into spots I don't want to take the boat.I don't really see why it wouldn't work,the transducer looks just about like ones you see on some thru-hull outfits I've seen.
I have my boat battery on the charger and I might get out tomorrow just to satisfy some of my spring fever.If I don't bury the truck or trailer in the mud tomorrow trying to get out,I may get to try my little F.F. out.If I do I'll compare it to my finder in the boat to see how it reads.
I noticed it has about the same features and specs as the portable Zebco F.F. that Catfish Connection now carries.The Zebco says it will shoot thru hulls and ice.
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Post by Wolfman on Feb 21, 2007 14:29:26 GMT -6
Actualy the fish finder companies are the ones who came up with them. Their attempt at getting a segement of the bank fishermen to 'buy in' to their products.
What you need is a nice long extendable pole where you can set that thing back in holes and around brushpiles to find crappie.
I would'nt mind one of them castable humminbird wireless fish finders. Could tie em on and drift em down the river over holes and near bluffs to see where ya wanted to float your bait for cats.
I need to get me a better one for the boat first though.
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Post by Whiskers on Feb 21, 2007 15:23:28 GMT -6
Yea for a pole I was thinking of using those lil' fiberglass poles like you see on those dome tents.I have a few sets of them around somewhere,the tents are history. I was going to get the boat out but Ozark Kitty Chaser ended up having to work today,We thought he would be free today but that's the way it goes.It's too much trouble trying to mess with it by myself.I have spent the day going through more fishing stuff,trying to remember where everything got put last fall.lol So far I have two fish finders that are missing in action.I remember putting them in a duffel bag so they would be easy to find....  |
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Post by Sinker on Feb 21, 2007 17:39:55 GMT -6
I put a buncha stuff in one of them easy ta find places last fall, too. So if ya run onta my stuff when ya find yer stuff, gimme a holler! lol
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Post by Whiskers on Feb 21, 2007 18:59:52 GMT -6
lol! It's funny how that works(them easy to find places).I filled up 2 duffel bags and put them together,only one of them was where I remember putting them.Then I was so mad one was gone I probably couldn't find it if I tripped over it.I guess it will turn up when I quit looking.
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Post by Wolfman on Feb 21, 2007 23:38:08 GMT -6
You aint figured it out yet? It's the Great Big Nasty House Rats called WOMEN that moves your stuff! I got two areas in the house that are 'supposed' to be touch on pain of death for females of the species. Nothing there for them that they need to mess with. I can put something up anywhere and 6 months later if no one has Finger F...messed with it ill know right where i left it. It's when i put something up and someone feels a compulsion to move something they have absolutely no buisness touching that i lose track of it. Just pizzez me off to no end. Tools, hunting stuff, fishing stuff, don't matter waht it is. They know it's supposed to stay RIGHT THERE and NOT be touched my other then MY Male hands. And yet they move it then immediately forget where they moved it to! Wife and daughter beating(and sometimes mothers) should be legal for ALL male sportsmen who have to put up with this Crap! Buy em their opwn stuff and they still feel like they have to mess with yours.  The poles i was thinking of were the extendable crappie rods. If the rig is'nt to heavy some of them rods will extend out 15 feet long. Have a couple of them rods, one rigged up with the transducer and another rigged with a jig or minnow to drop in the holes. |
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Post by donkey on Feb 22, 2007 0:52:29 GMT -6
But what excuse do I have? None?
I been tryin to find a partial spool of #80 line. I know I saved it. I save everything. I figger I'll find it when I get another spool.
Dayyumm, has bait fetching become this Hi-Tech?
Meybe I should just get out the "forked stick"?
"Whats that feller doin over there?
Why he's Witchin bait!"
;D
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Post by Sinker on Feb 22, 2007 6:05:55 GMT -6
donkey, sounds ta me like ya need ta explain yer theory on "Flat Spots" to Wolf! He could pass it on to th perpetrators of th dirty deeds. lol I think it's all purty near hilarious........Ya gittin OLD boys! No blame; no shame!
Ya would do better ta concentrate on inventin a fishin TACKLE finder! lol
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Post by Whiskers on Feb 22, 2007 12:00:23 GMT -6
.......Ya gittin OLD boys! No blame; no shame! If ya look back at my post,I never laid any blame.Too many times when I do,I will find it somewhere and say to myself,"Oh Yea...now I remember".....It aint a pretty scene when that happens and I've already blamed everyone else in the house. Now I've gotta go figure out where "someone" put my truck keys... |
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Post by Sinker on Feb 22, 2007 12:32:58 GMT -6
Hang in there Whiskers. That's how I got my start!
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Post by Whiskers on Feb 22, 2007 14:12:08 GMT -6
Well there aint any getting out of here with my pontoon boat I have discovered.I sank my truck to the frame just pulling down to it.If it weren't for 4 wheel drive I would still be stuck but I don't plan on being here when Buttons gets home and and looks at the ruts I made,and I do mean RUTS.
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