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Here's another twist, my fish hawk x2 is the mobile unit with a small transducer that clips on the down rigger. It's battery operated 4 AAs in the probe and 2 AAs in the screen. It was off and still had weird lines running through the screen. I was pulling gear when it happened, still had one rigger in the water but the probe was out. I should never had said anything to my wife. Now she won't go in the boat for fear off dieing. 🙄

Just read a ton of different articles and threads on misc. Boating sights. Most senerios point to a wiring issue in the boat. But...that electrical storm that ran all the boats off last Saturday evening must have been producing strong static electricity. I'm curious if anyone else out that evening experienced similar situations. I'm going to check the boat , but I'm leaning towards the storms.

Never did it before, didn't do it all day until that thunderstorm rolled in around 6 pm Saturday. Crazy,guess she's going to the shop and trace wiring.

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Good exercise, did it for 10 yrs. Worst is a Dipsy out 250 that won't pop. 🤣 Think I have a breach somewhere. I don't do electricity.

Thanks Crestliner, I think lol. Don't understand why they didn't work right just on separate battery and did when grounded to crank battery, then still worked when I removed the ground to crank battery. Weird. Maybe the short is in one of the riggers and not the boat? I don't know, more frigging problems. I miss my 16 with hand cranks already.

Next labor day weekend I'm crashing your party Bill😂

I need a little help! When I tested gear at my local lake a week ago the Cannon 5s would only work when holding the switch up or down. Read that I had to ground the battery for the auto up-down- stop to work. Using a 12" snubber at ball instead of the little factory plastic water line breaker. Ran a 10g wire from rigger battery negative to ship battery negative as suggested..everything worked Saturday. Saturday evening when the thunderstorms chased us we were getting shocked by everything you touched in the boat. Freaked me out. There were a few local lighting flashes at the stacks in Mexico that chased out most boats. When we pulled gear and ran the on board shocking stopped. Next day, Sunday I disconnected the negative post connection thinking I had a bad ground in the boat and was getting feedback somewhere. The riggers worked without the wire and not grounded. I'm totally confused. Was I picking up static electricity from the lighting or was I close to a water strike, or wtf? Lost

So that's what they look like 👍

Lake O 3, us notta. 2 knock offs and a screamer that broke off. Great trip. New boat ran great, few tweaks and good to go. If I don't get back this year I'll see you all next year. Good luck, God bless, keep it tight! 🫡

Cruised the 120 out of SR this afternoon. Nice ride, couple knock offs on riggers with spoons. 50° down 80 but sporadic. Clear screen. Thunderstorms chased us out early, back at in the morning.

Appreciate the support . I'm stopping at the store for bananas 🍌

Well that sukked. Temps all over the map, Mike had his head in a bucket, Brandon ate all the donuts, try again this afternoon.... maybe. Or Cayuga for Lakers. Oh well, bin there done that 😂

Sept.1.Should arrive around 8:30 this evening. Waited all year for this run. Hopefully have some pics and reports over the weekend. Have my son-in-law Mike and grandson Brandon. Looking for Mike's 1st salmon, Brandon's 3rd. Picked up a cobra hand held, curious to what channel you folks hang on. I'll check in the morning. Is pine grove in good shape, or am I heading to Mexico launch? Any starting #'s would be appreciated. Good luck, keep it tight!