Do you have your excess cable coiled up? If so, the interferance could be coming from the coil as the signal would be traveling in a circle fashion.
Back some time, I was told to never coil excess transducer cable, but rather run it forward and back along itself so that the excess is running parellel to itself, and not in a circle. I hope that makes sense.
Like Tim said, wait until close to when you need your registration updated, go online and it will be cheaper than the original price on the renewal invoice.
Takes about a week and a half to receive the new sticker and card in the mail.
There wasn't any interferance last time I ran the river on my GPS. We also use GPS while in the river to duplicate successful drifts, especially when walleye fishing in the fall.
Thats the ice bridge below the falls. That will be there until it warms up, then it will all come down river or just melt off.
Yankee, I forgot your boat is fiberglass, I would be very careful with a glass boat on the river during the winter as I wouldn't want to scratch or mess up the fiberglass. Typically, everyone runs aluminum boats in the winter because of the ice. Like Doug said, there is usually ice you don't even see, but rather you hear it when you hit it while running. I think that would be hard on a glass boat.
No, thats not the norm for the river. The third and bottom picture represent the river better as far as ice levels throughout. The first picture is at the bottom of the Artpark drift, which is a curve in the river, thus making the ice pile up. At the Lewiston docks, the river is pretty straight and the ice should be more thinned out.
Sweet pics Doug, how was the lewiston boat launch? Last time I was there back in November, the water level was really low.
Gonna hit the river soon as I can't ice fish anymore.
Rich, do you use your kicker with the main motor off, and thus, no power steering? How hard is it to turn the outdrive and connected kicker without the power steering, assuming that you have no power steering at that point?
Fished Virginia Beach 12/27 in 8 - 12 FOW and caughts tons of perch, had to sort through the dinks for any keepers. Ice was between 8" - 10" thick, people were even driving cars to and from the main land to the island.
Fished Sibblad Point 12/28 in 6 - 10 FOW and found bigger fish, still lots of dinks to sort through. Ice was 6" - 8" thick. Open water is right next to Sibbald Point going west :shock:
Go for the downspeed & temp, my choice would be either a Moor or Depth Raider.
If I could only use one electronic tool on my boat, it would be my Moor.
Yankee,
Tim summarized it really well.
Your boat will be fine right now as there isn't much ice, if any at this point. The river generally is not rough, except for Devils Hole which I would advise against in a Bass Boat. Your trolling motor will work just fine for the rest of the river. There aren't any shoals / reefs etc that you need to avoid. The river is deep and consistent, meaning the farther from shore, the deeper it gets.
This time of year, there will be fish throughout the river, so you just have to hunt them down.
I didn't confuse nuisance tags with the party tags. My point was, why do i get denied a tag, if the farmer down the road is gonna get 25 nuisance tags, that isn't right, considering the trend of the population decrease that I have seen over the past 10 years.
Like mrhappy said about over in catt county where the farmer depleated his entire herd, thats bad news. I hope that is not happening near my camp, as there are a number of cattle farms.