Sk8man

Very cool! Brian deserves a good plug for his company and his efforts. He has helped out a lot of folks on LOU over the years. Along with meat rigs they are the best thing out there for catching lakers.

yeah no shortage of bait on that lake and chunky fish to prove it

To me it looks as if the Lowrance lost the bottom temporarily and is picking up the rigger weight and thinking it is bottom if that isn't a second echo above the 70 rigger which would indicate the sensitivity is set too high as mentioned . Might want to check the mount on the transducer to see if it is loose too.

I was offering an option if he couldn't get one of those particular paint jobs. I've used Dave's spoons for years so I understood the request; I don't know what the problems is with that.

I guess my point was that the ACTION of the same blanks is the same regardless of the paint job. It suggests that you can paint them yourself or have someone paint them for you.

WTG. That is what the holiday season should be all bout!

I've had a bunch over the years but the one that sticks out in my mind is when fishing one of the Spring ESLO derbies back in the early eighties it was pretty rough in the lake for my 13 ft. Whaler so I fished Sodus Bay. I was somewhere near Thornton Point when I observed something in the water coming toward me and it looked like an animal of some type but couldn't tell what from the distance as there was quite a chop on the water. I was fishing two top lines off outriggers at the time so I couldn't make real sharp turns. The thing sped up towards me and then I realized it was a deer swimming toward me. I had slowed up the motor and the deer swam faster and faster toward me. It came close to the boat and tried to get in ( I kid you not). The boat had very low gunwhales only a few inches up from the surface and I was a bit concerned he might tip my stuff out as I knew the boat itself wouldn't sink. I sped up the motor and got away from him and called the Sherriff boat that happened to be out in the bay. They somehow steered the deer back to shore and everyone lived happily ever after

Yep I have the X4D Bluetooth model so might consider it and use my existing probe as backup. Nice they made it backward compatible.

Ah got ya Thanks. I just had a quick look at the pics on the website....should have looked a little more in depth

So am I correct that it costs 1200 to 1400 WITHOUT the transducer?

Prior to the fleas I used to use 12 lb. Big Game with a 10 lb Seguar fluoro leader on both the Fingers and Lake O. After the fleas it has been 30 lb SeaFlee with 10 lb leader on Fingers and 20 lb fluoro on Lake O. During the early Spring and late Fall I use the former setups on the Fingers when the fleas aren't a problem.

Good going John

Several friends and neighbors have had knee and/or hip replacement procedures. Each of them has mentioned that it has been life changing. The rehabilitative therapy (PT) is not easy but as stated above it is totally necessary and can drastically affect to final outcome of the surgery according to them. If it were me I would also check to the degree I could (e.g. online or with people that have had a particular surgeon do it, maybe talk with your primary care physician if you respect his/her judgement). Sometimes reviews can be helpful. Not all surgeons are equal and you should have confidence in the one selected, but also the procedures themselves (multiple ways of doing the surgeries with different re-cooperation times) have improved greatly in recent times.

The one on the left looks like a !0A but the one on the right is actually a Digitroll model.

Me too Dan. Hope,to see you out there soon. Thx troutman10. I was hoping the cool nights would get rid of them.