Boat Speed .

[dave524]

24 minutes ago, BillM said:

Dave, a lot of those guys swear by temps these days as well.   I wish I lived closer to Lake O to actually take advantage of one of those units.  Just too expensive for the half dozen times I make it out there.

50 bucks US https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Fish-Hawk-520-Depth-Counter-Temperature-520-Tested-NEW-Battery-/352508847254

[Old Ironmaker]

Buddy picked up an older FishHawk at the Hamilton swap meet last year cheap. You have to get there early though, just in line behind HTHM. 

[David Chong]

Definitely bait speed and boat speed are two totally different things! The GPS units in today's units are pretty damn accurate for boat speed! Great info from some knowledgeable folks here!

[Freshtrax]

On 11/10/2018 at 8:43 PM, porkpie said:

Yeah I have no problem trusting my GPS.  I have 3 of them on he boat.  2 in my sonars and one in my terrova.  None of them are ever off of each other by more than 0.1mph. If you want you can spend $1000 on a fishawk and clip a probe to your rigger and it will give you your downspeed.  Lots of guys swear by them but they are spendy.

i have downspeed probe an older cannon unit. and my catch rate while downrigginging doubbled.  worth every penny.  Some days downspeed if differnt than surface speed by 1.5  mph.   

[porkpie]

If fishing was crappy I'd probably spend the money.  Fact is last season was incredible both on Lake O and Erie.  This season was so good on Erie that I only ended up on Lake O a couple times in the spring and then near the end of the season for staging fish.  I know lots of guys had to grind this year mid summer on Ontario but when I finally showed up late August the fishing was pretty targeted and quite good for both 2 year olds and stagers.  No doubt I'll find the 1000 bucks when I find the fishing really slows down.

Edited November 21, 2018 by porkpie