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Good job Stan! I have a few of these in box from about 20 years ago. Good lure in the rough, and loves the extra speed. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Wednesday afternoon solo. 5 pm to dark. Only one brown on mag spoon 42 second on a king program. The salmon are there, just lock jaw and deep on the bottom 100 to 150. Temp was 49 down 100. Any day could be a different story. Just not much changing with this heat wave. You can hunt with the best of them out there! I could be out there too, just trying to make a decision on a the bar or the oak...browns are a choice if nothing else goes. Good luck! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I hear ya Jason! I was slightly more lucky, if you can call it that, in the fact that I got to the truck at the county launch to find a note on my truck. Not from the perpetrators, but from a bystander watching it happen. It had a plate number and vehicle description on it. Then the people came that wrote the note with more info. I was really thankful they had done that, and after my analysis of the problem, discovered that the bearing buddy had been busted off in pieces by a front tire that had been cranked into my trailer. Nothing else damaged. It looked bad to the bystanders so they gave me the note and approached me to talk, but it was just a bearing buddy, not 2000.00 of damage! So I let it go. But it does just completely baffle me that anyone could even do that kind of damage and just drive away...can't even own up. Probably like mentioned, had too many brewski and would have led to a bigger problem for him by getting investigated. Like getting arrested for intoxicated operations of a boat and motor vehicle. Some very poor driving skills are going around lately I notice. Like taking up the last 2 spots left with the trailer jacked all around....shameful...I've even moved the empty trailer over by hand, to where they belong with a little extra adrenaline from the aggravation! Hope you get a resolve! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Still the easy way to check the transmission is to get a portable, or have a buddy with a radio on the channel that is in a boat next to you. Se if anything is coming in. Nothing coming in means the radio is malfunctioning on transmission but can receive. 3 things will keep it from transmitting. The microphone. The antenna connections, regardless of antenna size or DB gain or even power supply, but it does make sense to use large guage 10, and be sure you have full 12.4 to 12.8 volts coming to the radio. Last, and not uncommon lately (cheap grade solder in Mexico), the radio has a problem in the finals circuit, ie, bad diodes or cracked circuit board. Simple checks like mentioned with a meter can find troubles. Check the coaxial cable on both ends and the radio connection to rule out cable and radio grounding. Use an ohm meter. Have someone hold the meter probes to the antenna pin hookup on the radio and then on the antenna pin end of the cable as you key the mic. Set meter on amps with the antenna hooked to the other end, and you should get about 2 amps when the radio is keyed on 25 watt max output. Word of caution though, do not hold the mic keyed for more than a few seconds to get your readings, it can damage the circuit without proper resistance from an antenna hooked up. As for the gain, it won't make any difference 3 or 6 or 8 other than higher gain is just more focused energy. Same power, different focus. Instances in a boat with high gain antennas, where you might get longer transmission by line of sight are in calm seas and a perpendicular antenna position, giving max range. Rough seas rocking the boat, and changing the perpendicular position to the horizon is where you would get better transmission with lower gain, but a little less distance. Rocking a high gain antenna will have the focus miss the receiving radio antenna of the same height at the horizon. In regards to reaching a base like the coast guard, the higher gain is more powerful to the tall antennas that the coast guard would use say 50 miles away due to the more focused transmission of a high gain. Neither would effect the normal power of the radio if it is functioning properly in a few miles. In eithercase, Gain is not a reason for no transmission. The meter, ohm, and volts, and amps, is your best tool along with a buddies radio to receive on. Ohms = 0 is good at the back of the radio, center pin to outer threaded connector. O ohms or no buzzer center pin to cable threaded outter. Any reading and the cable is no good and shorted. Ohms should have some continuity one end center pin to other. There is some resistance set into a cable depending on its RG number. Usually 75 or 50 ohm per 100 feet. You just want to hear a buzzer on a meter if the cable is Ok on that test. Volts should be battery charged voltage 12.4 to 12.6 on any power lead to the radio. Amps should be about 2 coming from the radio antenna hookup on a 25 watt setting. Even better is to check all the amp and watt values with an SWR meter designed to hook between the radio and antenna to read all those values on one guage. See if you can borrow one from someone or have the radio tested in a shop that does that work. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Saturday went west to Shadigee, lake was rolling down there and unfishable with wild current. Headed deep to 600 fow and had plenty of bait on the screen but no hooks and only one skippy out of 6 rods and miles of trolling. Tried meat, spoons, flasher flies, copper, downrigger, dipsy and nothing 7:00 AM to about noon. Beer at the North was cold. Best part of the day. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Nice fish men! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Those are the FUN ones!...keeps the blood flowing and story living! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Great job Matt! You still have a thumb? Looks like an ouch moment. .. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

That lake is full of food for fish. Very hard to get a good consistent bite out of them. Also, I think just about every species of fish live in there. I fish it in winter through the ice, and the camera shows miryads of insect larvae crawling around the bottom. The fish are well fed. Walleyes are rare for the most part. I don't know about any recent stocking.Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Silver Foxette..ooh hh..did you learn that from RayYou are sooo bad Scotty! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

12 volt fluorescent trouble light in my live well, along with all the glow lures hanging on a small bucket. Everything in there is white and reflects light all around. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app