welcome back, and happy holidays to you and your family as well,from our family,glad to hear your surgery went well and that you are cancer free,thats terrific,there are several members that have that model you have ,my freind from this baord has one and i have seen the unit in action and i know that his workd great and is pretty darn acurate,and is easy to operate so i hope yours will work great,but some advice would be to buy rechargeable batterys and a charger at canadian tire,those batterys will last alot longer than the regular duracells,so give it a try and let us see a pic of you using it and a pic of your fish you caught while using it....cheers