Yankee Troller

My advice is do you. Everyone runs their business differently. Do what works for you. Are you going to make money doing this part time? Probably not. Could it grow into something more? Absolute. I wish I took the leap years ago and did it full time, but I was always too chicken and enjoyed my guarantied paycheck and benefits.

150/160qt is fine if you have the room on your boat. Our tourney weigh-in cooler is a 100qt Grizzly. I've had a nice 12 fish box of fish (Salmon and Trout) in that with ice. I'd say that is the size most people could get away with.

Fat Nancy's has a 9' light action rod we use for Spring Brown Trout. I believe it's a Riverside or Steamside brand? They are a lot of fun with the Chinook Divers 1/2 size for Brown Trout. If I wasn't fishing green clients I'd probably use that rod more for my Chinook Divers. Ask for Dave Falato if you call over there. Tell him I sent ya. He'll know what rod I'm talking about.

I know that. I was referring to the P66.

I'd also add that these new units like to default to CHIRP. Go into transducer selection and make sure you select 50 & 200 on the sonar menu. You don't want to CHIRP through a non-CHIRP transducer. Ask me how I know

I install Airmar P66 & B60 on a lot of UHD models and haven't had an issue. You wont find them in transducer selectin menu by their names, and the unit will not recognize the transducer upon set-up. You have to go in and select 50/200khz manually.

Be careful with the Garmin dual beam 77/200 as it will interfere with your Fish Hawk which works on 70khz.

It is compatible. The adapter is needed.

Great idea. Make sure the GT56 is the lowest transducer on the transom so when using the side imaging the other transducers don't get in the way. Other than having to go into the settings for transducer installation and choose what transducer you're running it will work.

For open water trolling the P66 offers a wider cone angle and dual frequencies. The wider cone angle allows you to see more under your boat. The GT56 has a high wide CHIRP frequency. This gets you a 16-24 degree cone angle. The P66 on 50khz can get you 40-45 degrees. It's almost double the size to allow you to see more. These fish finders with pre-packaged transducers are good all around transducers. but they are geared towards inland fisherman who bass, panfish, and walleye fish shallow water looking for structure and bottom detail. For trolling guys are in a large lake in open water looking for pelagic fish, so the bigger cones allow you to see more.

Depends on the boat. If you want a transom mount transducer then an Airmar P66. If you want a thru-hull (recommended) an Airmar B60.

Neither transducer is great for trolling, becasue of the small cone angles.

I've had 3' leaders work and 8' leaders work behind Kingfishers. It comes down to confidence and trolling speeds.

You can run it either way.