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I wired in this waterproof switch mounted to the trailer to turn on in launch parking lot. Illegal in Vermont to run accent lights over the road. The switch solved this issue. I used two Lighting kits to do mine. One only did half my trailer.

We had 4-5 nice fish. Two year classes of fish. One small one. Had a lot of video clips to go thru and may have missed a few. Photos captured some of the nicer fish! Released all fish! Thanks for asking!

What an amazing day and worth the 6 hour drive to Rochester, NY from Vermont! Thank you Richard Hajecki for an incredible day!

Here is our video of our two days:

Labor day week fishing Stagers here is a tip that will help people fishing Deep with Divers! Using the 124mm super sized Dreamweaver Diver will easily get to 95-105 ft which was super successful this past September for us landing 18 salmon each day we fished and a crazy amount of bites and lost fish over the two day's we fished. Tracking them with Smart Troll really helped our cause as well. In the past we never had any idea where are divers were running and they were standard size. Yielding very few bites this time of year as they weren't deep enough. We ran 4 riggers as well. Here is a link to a video I found on this Diver: This diver added many fish to our spread on Stagers Labor Day week. https://youtu.be/qG4VuUMqVcU

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Just finished a 3 day project about 8 hours of wiring and rigging with Black Oak LED accent lights. Nice for Ontario setting up in the parking lot and out on the water. Plus the Shoot-Out. Video tour link: https://youtu.be/8FkDOs7sC7Q image hosting services

Sorry to hear your selling Rusty! I get it if your not using something it's tough to let it sit idle too. These boats fish well up to 5 ft swells in Lake Ontario. I keep my front bow as light as possible with nearly no weight and a bow cover always in place. No electric trolling motor or batteries up there. I do have a 30 lb bell anchor but that's it. You will have no problem selling it and it's wise till wait till Spring during the peak selling season. I sold Starcraft boats for 14 years retired now. I know a good friend of mine that might be interested in your boat here in Vermont.

My 2013 Starcraft Fishmaster 196 with 4 months to go to finish the 2024 season at this point has 10,997 miles recorded on my Simrad Autopilot log checked today and 3,100 hours on the previous 150 hp Mercury and repowered 200 hp Mercury 5 years ago combined. Is it fair to say it gets some use?

Some great questions asked and some good support answers! I honestly haven't been this excited about a new product since I installed my first autopilot in 2005 on my boat. It's a great system to validate with my Fish Hawk Ultra and run both to play off each other with great data of temp and depth! I can move stuff around to take advantage of keeping my lures or paddles above the fish most of the time in the warmer water. It's even worked very well in our own Lake Champlain for landlock salmon our home water with Lite Bite Slide divers. I like both systems and they complement each other! Fishhawk and Smart Troll!

Very true Les! It took me a little while to get use to seeing these differences hardly believing it and then I began just trusting the depths and temps on the screen and made my adjustments! Felt very confident when Divers starting popping vs. riggers many times over 3 trips to Ontario this past year! My buddies the first day on another boat without Smart Troll never had a bite on their divers. I can relate to this prior to Smart Troll!

We did run into the bottom by accident as the diver rod was bouncing at one point on our two day trip and I looked at the sonar and the readout on the diver probe and it matched! We also have the Fish Hawk X4D Ultra on a rigger that I constantly see a match with temperature and depth when comparing to the Smart Troll probes! When I first started using it a year ago I would sometimes get depth on the probe that didn't make sense maybe 15-20 ft higher than I previously read going in the opposite direction. I put my Fish Hawk TD on that diver to verify what I was reading! Thats when all this clicked for me that these readings were accurate. Using pressure sensing technology in the probes. I used my Fishhawk on the rigger to keep that in the right spot too! Having temperature data on the Smart Troll probes validates wherever it is running to the depth when compared to the other smart probes and Fish Hawk probe. No diver rod is the same I have found out so the short answer is not all the time is it equal to another diver with same reel same wire and same full reel. Hard to believe but true! However with riggers my Fish Hawk probe is very close to the other riggers around the same depth. If you want to run a Smart Troll probe on another rigger that is an option too. Currents and waves effect the dive curve when you turn the boat more than 30 degrees! Here is a summary video of our two day trip last week: