J.D.

I sort of stumbled upon this website and thought I would share.... http://w3.lre.usace.army.mil/hh/GreatLakesWaterLevels/GLWL-CurrentMonth-Feet.pdf

My Wife....

I replace the trebbles with single hooks on my trolling spoons, and upgrade the stock hooks on minnow and crank baits to the stronger Owner ST-41 style. I now have a number of trebble hooks - many brand new that I don't use, and would like to pass them along to someone who can use them. 180 Hooks total: 50 pc. trebble, used with standard, NK-28 size spoon 30 pc. trebble, magnum size spoon 50 pc. trebbles, various smaller sizes, from minnow and crank baits, J-Plugs 50 pc. single siwash, various sizes from 2/0 to 5/0, some opened eye, some not. Make me a reasonable offer, and I'll get then out to you via US Postal Thanks, Jim S.

I use the Cabela's 7/16 snaps rated at 35lbs, combined with the #10 Spro power swivel, also at 35lbs...... great combo for spring, then change out to the 9/16 snaps later in the year for the 'riggers

Line Guy, The proposed marina entrance is just North of the ramps.

As of Friday morning, ramp is open with one dock in. A few hundred yards of open water to the South, and a clear channel out to the lake.

No letter here, but I did take a look at the launch area at Rochester Harbor today. The marina basin project is underway full tilt, but a section of road is open to the boat launch area. I was suprised to see how low the water is.... even the small boats like mine will run out of dock before the boat is off the trailer. Most of the shoreline ice is gone, and after next weeks projected warm forecast, we should be good to go in the Rochester basin area. Just my $.02

I also tie on 1/4 inch tubing.... works great.

If I could do it all over again, I would find a good gps/ff combo unit, and buy 2 of them, running one full screen ff, and the other full screen gps. Would only have to learn one software menu, and if one crapped out, I could go duel screen on the other while the bad one was out for repair.

Howard's Fabric and Foam, East ridge Road near Hudson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2838y9N3Wk

Jeff, Good point on the zoom range... I forgot to mention that I have my marker zoom range set to read a 60ft. section of water, and key in on the thermocline area. For example, fishing in 200fow, 52 degrees 80 down, will zoom to 50 to 110 range on one side of the split screen, with full depth on the other side.

Jeff, I've run the 620 for 4 seasons now and don't have the issues you describe. Here's a few things you can check: Pressing the gain knob, gives 3 choices, fishing, cruising, and off. The auto gain must be "off" for any of your manual changes to take effect. You can offset the gain for each frequency. I boost the gain on the 50 kz low frequency side, almost to the point of having a cluttered screen, and keep the high frequency side at "0". Check the interference settings. Turn it off and see if you have any electrical interference on the screen... use the minimum supression needed to keep the screen clean. Same thing with low level noise and weak echo settings.... turn off as much of the auto filtering crap as you can to get a true picture...... dump the fish ID icon setting too. Remember, you are looking at a 3D world on a 2D screen.... what you see on the screen depends on how a fish swims through the cone angle. Very seldom do I see that perfect "arch" of a fish ... more often it's a blob, line, or streak on the screen. Check out this link for more help. http://www.thehulltruth.com/marine-electronics-forum/196651-i-need-help-operating-my-furuno-fcv-620-using-sonar-general.html