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Dont worry Dawg we got a few extra lures iffnn you need em. When you boil them Crawfish add a few lemons and a few cloves of garlic. That boiled Garlic is out of this world good eatten. Art

Just a thought but some of your depth finders need to have the power button held for up to 2 seconds before it will come on. The S plug has a few holes or prongs that are on the cable side. Since the only power it needs is for the unit one of the plugs will be 12 volts. Take a volt tester and ground one end to a known good ground and touch all of the holes or pins if you do not get 12 volts then you have a problem with the feed. Then you get to trace the wire if you do have 12 volts then you have a bad plug or depth finder. Art

Great...... an impatient redneck and he still has 5 more days to go. Why don't you go get a sack of crawfish and trim their toenails???? or see how long you can make a possum play possum before he gets up and leaves???? that should keep him busy for awhile. Art

A what the hey I will be the devils voice. While I have a bowmount cable assy I find that I need to use a leaning post while using it to keep my balance since I am standing on one leg. I have found that after a long day of being on one leg the leg is tireder than the other leg and when I get back to the dock I walk in circles. The Grey Goose has a hand bow mount unit that after you set the speed you can steer with your legs it is nice but was a pain to keep reaching down to adjust the speed. I installed a BIG FOOT switch on the floor to turn it on and off and it is a very nice motor to fish with the next time my Cable motor breaks I think I will go with a hand bow mount with a floor switch or a recessed foot controler so I can have both feet on the floor. Art

Just as long as we all stick together and have the same story we might get away with it. Art

Thanks to Skiel and Lorne for the material. Very nice work as usual Chris I will be suprised if you have any fingertips left after all of the charity rods you have built the past few years. Art

To heck with the fish get the turtle thats some good stew right their at your feet Carol. Art

Hey Lew it sounds like the speed controller overheated inside of the epoxy block were the electronics live. The reason the circuit breaker did not trip is it was not pulling over 50 amps . The speed controller when set on low cuts the amps to the motor and needed to do something with the excessive amperage so it turns it into heat....... Call the tech they can possible send you the speed controller if it is a seperate unit from the other part of the foot controller. I am not familiar with the Motor guide units but the Minn Kota was about $150.00 and was available seperate. Art

Talk about a ghost from the past. Afrter all this time working you still havent raised the coin for a faster connection??? I would send you a quarter to help but it would cost me a dollar to do it. Hope you can make it to lake air. Art

now I aint one to say anything (blaitent lie) but is that a nitestand next to the masterbed they are sitting on John????? Art

Tom is some pretty stout material but if we finish him off before we leave I guess we can look up our old buddy The Craftyprince. Hey Glen bring 2 bottles of shine I think we got us another volunteer to amuse us if the fishin is slow. Art

I got you covered on the white shirt Tom I have a few extra for people who fish in the boat. Art

You can also fish for them man style....... Just put on the short pants and go wading in the stagnent water your legs will be covered in no time. Art

nice report and great fishing. Art

I have the lms 525 dumb ass on the big boat because it is an aluminum hardtop that an internal could not get a signal thru. the installation is only slightly different with you needing to drill a hole thru the area below the antenna then run the cord to the back of the monitor. The dual freq is a no brainer get them both if you plan on learning how to read the bottom for texture and hardness. One note though even though the 5" screen 525 has the ability to hook up radar the unit can only display radar it will not split screen until you get to the x27 or 28 unit. All in all it is one of the best units for the money. Art

nice fish thanks for putting her back in the water. Fish that size deserve to go forth and multiply. Art

Remove the switch and omh the switch from pole to pole in the on position you will get a reading close to no resistance. Then test on the DC setting from the wires you unplugged from the wire to the ground one should read 12 volts one should not read anything. If the 12 volts are present and the other wire does not read then short the two wires together and the pump should run if it does replace switch. Art

I am sorry you and your buddy have to split thanks for taking the time to find him a great home. Art

If it will keep me from seeing you in your boxer shorts I will bring you a spool of your favorite line. The only catch is it will be delivered at Lak Air. Send a PM with the poundage and type of line you use if you are going to make it to Lak Air. Nice fish glad to see you are getting out to the water. Art

Hey glen looks like our comic relief is trying to slip out......... better get the rope we got us a little sidetrip before we get to fishin....... .... ...... ...... heeeeeeereee Toooommmmmmmmyyyyeeeee Art

Their are a few things that are a given as far as the way a sonar unit works The deeper the water and the wider the cone the larger the area is you are reading. The further out from the center of the cone the weaker the return signal is. The return from an object's strength is Dependant on the density of the object. What you should be thinking when you see a mark on the screen is that mark is the highest point from the signal that is bouncing back to your transducer in the area that the cone is being read. If you have a cone reading a 20 ft radius it is telling you the high spot in that 20 ft circle and no other feature is being returned till the next signal. The cone that is being read is from the center out to the edge of the radius with the center being read the soonest and the strongest. The density compared to the water is how strong a signal bounces off the object. A fish has a density slightly more than water. Mud is denser than fish and rocks/sand is one of the densest materials you will read. Now look at your color sonar a red return is a very dense return and can be verified as being rocky bottom while a mud bottom has shifted to blue or yellow. Notice at the top of the screen the reflection the wider the reflection the harder the bottom is. Now you can adjust the gain till the rocky bottom gives you a slight return . Now if you are trolling and looking for a fish that likes rocky bottoms you can see at a glance if you are in mud or weeds because the reflection is not at the top of the page. Remember you need to adjust the gain if you vary the depth more than 10 ft or leave the gain turned up and look at the thickness of the return. Now look at the color of the returns that are suspended a yellow blue return that is large in mass and has highlights of red are more than likely bait fish because of the density of the school and the shifting of the red spot areas depths. If you see the same thing and the red spots stay the same and the color patterns dint move then you are reading a ball of weeds or if more red than yellow wood structure that is free floating or possible coming straight up from the bottom. So what does a fish look like color wise is usually blue with a hint of yellow. Since the speed that an object passes thru a cone is what gives the famous arch that some people associate with the size of a fish a slow moving target will look much bigger than it actually is. A good graph to see as you are trolling is a few arches then above them a shifting cloud of yellow and blues with a few arches again below it. Remember you are looking down at the first object the signal strikes so you have found the edge of the predator fish with the arches and the bait scattered by them feeding and then the other side of the fish feeding. By staying over the arches and not over the cloud you will not scatter the bait and still see the fish below. The best thing you can do is to go out in 10 ft of water clear or not and tap a stick on the bottom you will feel the different bottom contours and textures and how they relate to your screen. Think of the return as the highest point of the signal sent that means a rock will hide a fish that is in a depression inside of the cones return. So the long answer to your question is A bottom littered with rubble will often times not show the fish that you are catching that are holding tight to the cover. Art

Thanks Pete for the well wishes and we hope your season goes well. Don't forget to checkin and give a few reports on how your season is going. Art

and they said you were untrainable...... glad you got a few more weapons in your walleye arsenal. Thanks to Tom and Greg for passing on some knowledge. Art

using chemicals and lazers to bond/etch is not a new process we have been doing this to computer chips for many years. Art

WOW that is a good batch of shine it even made the camera see fuzzy. Art