MikeyP

Any price reduction?

You have a PM

I'll take it. You have a PM.

Appreciate the post. Well done sir!

From another Mike Nicely done Mike It makes the upcoming winter more bearable as I look forward to the spring!

Mike.

What are you talking about "free polls"

I think he means fishing "poles"

There's nothing wrong with Otters, I have a pair I use for winter fishing in my 165 Alumacraft but if you want a really awesome pair of boards check out the Auroralites regular size boards. For pulling copper ,core and multiple flat lines for browns these boards cannot be beat. They make the Otters look sick in comparison. http://www.auroralitestackle.com/planerboards.html

Make sure you go down the page and look at the "regular original size boards".

Damn, those are some expensive boards! I would hope they would hold up.

We use the otter boats. They don't call them boats for nothing. Lol. Easy to retrieve and can take the waves with ease. Disadvantages are large size and they are non collapsible for storage. I'll take those trade offs, but that's me.

I bought the previous model Furuno.

The 582 which is now the 585.

Started with a transome mount transducer and upgraded to the through hull.

That made a big difference in the performance of the unit

10 years of completely trouble free use and if theres fish down there I mark them period.

Never read or heard anything negative about Furuno and if and when I have to replace it, I will go with the 585.

Good luck in your search.

A good FF is worth it's weight in gold.

Glen

+1 Best unit I ever had and I had a few good ones. I wouldn't hesitate getting another one. I have the transom mount transducer and it's fine, but I'm considering a thru hull in the future. I've never had a problem with frequency interference from other boats with the 50 and 200 of the Furuno. I also have never heard anything negative about a Furuno which is why I chose it. I can't say that about other FF's. Not saying others are not good or anything so I hope no one takes that the wrong way.

Thanks Chuck. Very interesting and informative report!

Thats cool !

did they say how old,or the groth rate? ,,,,,,, just wondering how many years i have to wait to get a 700lber

I can se some kid fishing for carp....DAD um DAD I JUST COUGHT a 500 LB carp,,,,,honest it was as big as our boat.................

:thats it young man go to your room for lying......

Growth....Caught.....See....that's (x2)

Sean love yer new red hat...

Wise A.. Just too funny

would ya consider 1000.00 down and a 1000.00 a year for the next 78 years?

You watch too much TV.

I'd be all over this boat if it had twin inboards. Maintenance on twin I/O outdrives scare me a bit though. Tough to beat a Sea Ray

UT OH... I went to hillsvally store today and mentioned i saw the spinny sale well me being me I didnt see the cut off date and I mentioned i saw the sale here .....well time flys and the sale was well over but they wernt shure how to edit so I told him how and its been done ....Feel kinda bad that they gave me the sale price so I guess ill have to get back their soon ... I was impressed with the assortment of ,Hunting ,trapping, camping and specially the must have spoons and flys any of us would need for local AND ontario Lakes.

Guess ive been missing a "GEM " of a store in my back yard (18 mi) they have a big store assortment of goods,a helpfull mom and pop "can I help you ? " attitude,with very reasonable pricing.... I can see my internal map will lead me to southport to get a few of those AHEM, MUST HAVE items my wife and I will need for future fishing and hunting trips....OPPS forgot they dont sell yarn or knitting needles.guess the wife will have to stay home whew!

Hmmmmmm...I never got the sale price? And you should feel bad about it!

Hope you took care of that squeak in the steering wheel you've been meaning to do for the past 4 months! LMAO

Will you be fishing barney's next weekend? If so i'll swing into myers on friday and toss it in your boat or if your on the lake friday mid day swing by my dock. You guys are killing me on the new boats. My 21 year old rig still catches fish.

Just goes to show you that it's not the boat

So the new 3 rod rule allows 3 rods per person I assume? Is that only with one person or is the rule basically changed to 3 rods per person no matter what?

I hadn't heard of this yet, but it sounds great!

It's 3 rods per fisherman freshwater only. No change for saltwater fishing. New legislative rule allowing this change was signed by Gov. Cuomo on 8/17/11.

Fished from about 1:30 pm until 4:00pm today in that heat! Managed 2 nice keeper salmon out over 350ft of water. Fleas and weeds were a little nasty where I fished today. One of the salmon had one of the largest lampreys I ever saw attached to it. It wouldn't even let go while in the boat. I had to practically cut it off the fish. The poor salmon had the nastiest hole in it from that lamprey that I ever saw so I had to keep it. The other was let go to bite another day. Needless to say that monster lamprey won't be feeding on anything again

Anybody know if the Gander Mtn in Johnson City stocks Malin wire line? Hoping to get up to Cayuga or Seneca in the next couple weeks and have to pick up some wire line. If not gander Mtn, any other shops that might have it? Thanks, Ron

That would be your only option unless you're fishing in the the north end of Cayuga. Bass Pro in Auburn carries wire and copper and is only about 20 minutes from Frontenac Marine which is in Union Springs.

Thanks Guys. We will prob. only run the fith rod when fooling around when things are slow. Nice to be able to .

Same here. It's nice to have the option especially when fishing alone. Even if I had 2 others aboard I would only run 6 rods anyway. This won't affect charter captains much either because they are usually running as much as they can handle anyway since most have 4-5 clients on board. A big thanks to all those that kept us updated.

Well the board has been real quiet the last week. No secrets getting out here Were off to Selkirk shores st pk tomorrow. Going to fish with just my two rods Staying through laborday. Planning on catching the big one and Blah blah blah. So how big will this years winner be???? I think 41.5 # What is your best guess

You can actually fish 3 rods now if you want

Through Labor Day! That's a lot of fishing! Good luck to you on landing that big one

I fished out of this boat. It's surprisingly quick. Very nice boat in excellent shape and trolls well. Someone is going to get a nice boat.

Hurry up and sell that thing already, will ya! Lol

Well the board has been real quiet the last week. No secrets getting out here Were off to Selkirk shores st pk tomorrow. Going to fish with just my two rods Staying through laborday. Planning on catching the big one and Blah blah blah. So how big will this years winner be???? I think 41.5 # What is your best guess

You can actually fish 3 rods now if you want