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rswanson330

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  • Birthday 03/30/1955

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    Willington, CT
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    Niantic River

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  1. I run sticks and spoons 75-100' behind the boat when I'm luck enough to get up there in April. Everything is off the board, I don't use the riggers. Tight to shore. I've had good years and not so good years. If you have clear skys and clear water you may need to run further behind the boat. Look for dirty water.
  2. I run sticks and spoons 75-100' behind the boat when I'm luck enough to get up there in April. Everything is off the board, I don't use the riggers. Tight to shore. I've had good years and not so good years. If you have clear skys and clear water you may need to run further behind the boat. Look for dirty water.
  3. If I recall correctly, the Big Jon installation manuals they recommend wiring directly to the battery or buss bar, Not a fuse panel. That's why I went straight to the battery. Everything else (except the planer boards) goes thru a couple distribution panels that I have wired in under the dash. I've attached the owners manual to this post. OwnersManualWeb.pdf
  4. I replaced my manual downriggers with (used) Big Jon's last summer. They're wonderful. I also went electric with my planer boards, but that's not for this thread. You definitely want to keep the Big Jon's off the trolling motor circuit. Mixing 12/24 on the same circuit can't be doing you any good. I am running both downriggers on separate (isolated) 10ga circuits (Ankor Marine wire) off my cranking battery. The Big Jon's have a circuit breaker in them that should suffice, But I wanted to doubly insure so each circuit got a marine 30amp fuse incorporated into each circuit as well. I mounted tracks on each gunnel into which I slide the downriggers, And a properly rated plug for each rigger was installed into the gunnel as well. This way I can take the riggers off the boat when not in use.
  5. Fished all day, 07:00-6:00. Four hits, One king around 15 lbs came to the boat. It was only a one day trip. Green was the color, got it on a green and white spoon. Oh yeah, Primarily stayed with the fleet in 80-140 foot of water, Salmon came from about 100', 80 down on the rigger... Doing the geometry with blowback, really about 72' down.
  6. Good to hear that you caught fish. I'm headed up Wednesday for a couple days, Weather looks OK, maybe we'll be able to make something work.
  7. The Hard Reset, then re-defining the transducer worked. I tried it out last night and it worked flawlessly. And we caught a couple walleye, couple bass, couple slime darts and a perch all in about an hour and a half, Biggest walleye just shy of eight pounds. I didn't post it because its down here in CT. I created a document on doing the hard reset on the Lowrance HDS Gen 3, including how to back/restore up your waypoints. Some of the options can be a little tricky to find. If anybody would like it, send me a PM and I'll send it along.
  8. I'm on the latest update, But me thinks I remember hitting the "reset defaults" button while up at Lake George earlier this summer. Coincidentally, that is when I first noticed the problem. I reset everything, did a hard reset, restored my waypoints and identified my transducer correctly. It didn't lock up in the driveway, I'm going to try it on our local walleye lake tomorrow evening.
  9. Note: When a TotalScan transducer is connected to a legacy display with a 7-pin blue connector, the side-scanning feature will not function. Well, I don't have to get rid of my LSS2 then...
  10. Thanks, I'll look into it. The other transducer is the LSS 2, I don't know if the totalscan is compatible with HDS Gen 3 though, I'll have to look into it.
  11. My Lowrance HDS 9 Gen 3 sonar is intermittent. I have both the regular downscan cone/CHIRP sonar and the sidescan. Sidescan works fine. The downscan is hit and miss. I will read depths and contour bottom for a while, then it loses the signal and I get nothing, many times for long stretches of time. Its like the screen locks up. But the sidescan continues to work. I have the older 7-pin blue plug skimmer transducer on the unit. I'm thinking that I need a new transducer. Yesterday I cleaned out the plugs with electrical cleaner and re-dielectric greased them, and then did a soft reset. But testing in the yard still gave me a problem. Anybody have any thoughts on the matter?
  12. Forgive my ignorance, most of my Lake O fishing has been for browns in the spring. But being retired now I'm considering making the trip up again. What is an "FF Bite"? Is that "Flasher/Fly"?
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