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I have had a run in with those guys in the bass boats, same characters. The first time I ran in to them after I had hooked two fish they fired up the motors and setup shop right on top of me, within 50 ft. If I see them now either I stop fishing till they move on or I leave, can't stand having someone that close. If I can pitch a jig in you boat your too darn close. Its pretty sad that they can't find there own fish. One other time I caught a few fish and they pulled right next to me and threw a bouy directly In front of my boat. Can you tell you struck a nerve there Hermit??? Anyways congrats and I am glad you got the big one and not them. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Hey thanks for putting on a great tournament Scott, Barney, and Joe. Its too bad no one got the 25K but still a great time. Also congratulations to Chris and Hermit, aka Weatherman nice job guys. [ Post made via iPhone ]

For a Jiggin rod I like a rod that is at least 7-1/2 to 8 ft and most of the time I use a 9 ft rod I made myself. I like a lighter action rod than most, ML or M. My feeling is that if you get a big fish to the surface on braided line and he make a surge to the bottom, which Lakers often due, it is crucial to have that little bit of a softer tip. Also if you get into a pod of Salmon that are just short striking your lure the light action rod will show the lightest of bites. Also if you do hook into a fair amount of silver fish the lighter rod will make a big difference on weather or not you tear the hooks out with the fish goes ape sh*@! at the boat. My favorite blank for this is a 9' ML St. Croix Salmon Steelhead blank. The 8' M Browning Six River rods make good Jiggin rods the components aren't the greatest but the price is right. Another good rod is the BPS 8'-6" ML walleye deadstick rod. I think the fight is much more enjoyable on a lighter rod too. Just my two cents, Hope it helps

good job guys, got love those uglysticks, they are one of the toughest rods out there

Fished south of where I had been getting fish today and I was just setting the second rod out and the first rod got wacked. Ended up going 24 for 30 with a few more of the fish being lakers today. Bigest fish was maybe 6.5lbs and a Laker. Got one dink salmon on a monkey puke nk parked at 70ft, a 3.5lb Salmon on a Williams wobler flatlined, and everthing else was on the wire and dipsys. Tried to stay between 80 and 220 fow with 150 to 240ft of wire out. Only trolled going with the wind and it was hard to go slower than 3.2 without putting the boat in neutral. The hot setup was still the blue dolphin diver, white/ green dodger, and the white flashabou fly.

My family's thoughts & prayers are with you and your family Scott.

Thanks guys, and ya I hope the weather holds too.

Thanks, they were hittin much better on wednesday but I can't complain. I was loosing quite a few a first but I didn't drop as many once I added a snubber to the one rod that was taking most of the hits. Do you run snubbers on your wire dipsy setups?????

Fished from 9:30 to 2:00 in the same area as Wednesday. Went 16 for 22, 6 Lakers and 10 Landlocks all on the wireline and dipsey. One Laker was maybe 7lbs and all the Landlocks were 2 to 3lbs except for one that was a bit heavier. Caught fish in any where from 82 fow to 324 fow and a faster speed of 3-3.1 seemed to work better. A glow lap dancer Big Weenie fly behind a glow crush/ frog Spindoctor got the better laker and the Salmon mostly hit the white flashabou fly behind the same dodger as I was using on Wednesday. Tried some deep diving cranks and some asst. lures behind snap weights and they never got touched. Hope the weather holds up so I can keep gettin out there. The decent laker One of the Salmon

Started at around 7am north of Taugannock fished till about 1:30. Caught at least 20 Salmon, 12 or 13 lakers, and droped probably about 8 or 9 fish due to fishin solo and tryin to steer the boat while fighting fish. Most of the Salmon were 2 to 4 lbs and the Lakers were mostly in the 4lb range except for one just over 8lbs and one just shy of 11lbs. I caught one Salmon on a blue dolphin stinger parked at 37ft and the rest of the fish were caught on dipsey on 20lb wireline. I let the dipsey out 180 to 225 on one side and the other 135 to 170. I caught fish over 350 fow all the way in to 84 fow and the best speed seemed to be around 2.9-3.1 on the GPS. Also I had never tried Big Weenie flies until today and let me just say I will be buying more in the near furture. A green pro-troll paddle with a lap danacer fly accounted for all the Lakers and a few Salmon and the rest hit a white dodger with a white flashabou fly I had tied. I haven't trolled very much the past few years I have been mostly just jigging so it was nice to know I can still catch fish trolling, the way I use to fish all the time. The big Laker Another decent Laker One of many Salmon

I was just curious if anyone else ran into to this....... I tried to register today online and when I got to the point of paying the total w/ the lunker fee said $35.00 instead of the 30 it should have been since it is well before July 1.

Problem fixed....knock on wood I moved the tranducer wire about 15" further away from the troling motor wires, insulated/ covered the trolling motor wires, and I think what really made the bigest difference was I turned the transom mount tranducer I was running around so that it actually sticks out a bit past the motor. I usually like to mount them the other way but after I did this it was day and night difference. I also got rid of the stainless steel hose clamp and attached the bracket with a large zip tie.

Hey guys just wanted to update this post I downloaded the updated software, installed it on my HDS 7 and I still the same interference. I have been reading a lot about other peoples issues with trolling motor interference and was curious if anyone has tried a Ferrite Data Line Filter????? Here are some pics of my screen with the interference:

Well I went back through and rewired the unit simplified things and went to what and worked for me in the past. I shortened the power wires and ran them directly to a small gel cell battery with the inline fuse. Also I made sure that the transducer wires were well away from the trolling motor wires. After this I still got a lot of extra noise on the screen when then trolling motor was running. The only thing I found that cleans the screen up was to turn the surface clarity to high and I get a nice clean screen without all the extra noise/ clutter but then I can't see my jig on the screen. It is really frustrating to spend that kind of money on a unit and not have it work as well as a older somewhat out of date unit. You would think someone would have thought about this type of an issue and come up with a solution. I had a Lowrance 334c and that unit worked sweet but when I got a new boat I thought I would keep the old unit just for ice fishing well if this persist I may have to put the old unit on the new boat. Does any have any experience with the different fishing modes on the HDS units?? There is general use, freshwater, deepwater, slow trolling, fast trolling, ice fishing and a few others. I have my unit just on general use, would one of the other modes help me? Thanks for all the input guys I really appreciate all your help, Jared

I installed it with the inline fuse that came with the unit.

Yup I did, I am wonderring if it was because I had it powered off the main fuse block. My old Lowrance I had running off its own small gel cell battery and it worked great but of course I forgot the extra battery in morning so I had to run it off the fuse block. Its weired though because I have a HDS 8 running off the fuse block and it works fine.

I tried using my new HDS 7 for jigging today and it seemed to be picking up noise from the trolling motor. I have the transducer mounted to the trolling motor on the bow of the boat and I have the FF hooked to a battery in the back of the boat not the trolling motor batteries. It was driving me nuts, it wouldn't do it all the time but it seemed to do it at the worse possible times. Several times I would get a fish to chase and would touch the trolling motor to get back over the jig and the screen would go all pink when I touched the foot pedal. I was really missing my old unit today any help would be greatly appreciated. Also does anyone have any tips on the best settings for jigging for lakers with these units? I had my L334c set up just they way I liked it and I am having some problems getting this unit dialed in. Thanks guys

Have they lifted the no wake zone within 500 ft of shore

Also like to run my leaders at about 20 to 30 ft long.

I run power pro on most of my rods year round and I just tie a blood knot between the braid and the flourocarbon. I have never had a problem and I would much rather have a knot go over my guides than a metal swivel. The only thing that is important to remember to leave the tag ends a little but longer than normal on the blood knot. The braid to flourocarbon knot will slip a tiny bit at first and if you trim the knot super close it will fail.

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I have a Lowrance 334c that I use on my boat in the summer and I ice fish with it in the winter. I was able to buy all the parts and the case through cabela's so all I do is take the display off the boat and mount it on my ice fishing set up. I absolutely love it, the gps is nice to have too.

I would start by turning auto sensitivity off and then turn the sensitivity to 100% and back it off as need be to get rid of some of the noise. Most of the time for jiggin I can run my Lowrance at 98-100% senitivity. Hope this helps ya

Sounds like a heck of a good weekend of fishing. I took the nephew out today and we boat 15 Lakers between 3 and 7.5 lbs.