Koofy Smacker

Which transducers do you have hooked up now? For the side imaging to work you need the StructureScan Skimmer in addition to the regular 2D transducer

I had to replace two of mine when I mounted my Talon. Hardware store bolts but make sure you get STAINLESS. Nothing else, and dont get any from Lowes or Home Depot, as thats cheap china stainless. Get fine thread if you can, I ended up having to get coarse thread for the time being. In addition, get a long enough length that you can get two nuts on there back to back. Loc-Tite them and your good to go

Batteries have been known to quite literally explode. If he was running lithiums which I am guessing he was, it compounds that issue. Lithium is very very very reactive when it comes in contact with water.

It was both the readout on the unit and when I tested it with my fluke tester. I charged all the batteries when I got home, tried it again and nothing. Went out today, plugged it back in and voila, its now working. It now makes me very wary though to have that as my only charting system in the boat though if it goes out on me again since I travel to a lot of different lakes for tournaments which I am unfamiliar with. I am strongly considering a Gen 2 HDS7 with the structure scan to place on the dash and move that one up front so I have two backups in a sense. The price is unbeatable on it right now. $1000 after a $300 rebate

i believe thats an xtools

I did that tonight. Still doing the same thing. Battery was still reading 12.6v when it happened this morning also. I understand the speed thing just was making sure everything was laid out in the original post. Flat rate price is $256 which in my mind is crazy. I would rather buy a new and better unit and run this one as a sonar only at the bow for the time being. Im still going to call them tomorrow and see if there is anything else they have to say.

Went out this morning, everything was fine, was running down the bay and all the sudden it started flashing that it had no fix on satellites. Stopped to see what was going on with it and it kept doing the same thing. Turned it off, unplugged it, back on and the GPS was nowhere to be found. None of the screens popped up, and my speed was gone. Went into the settings, turned on the accessory list and now it is saying that the GPS and Speed are accessories which are disconnected so the screens do not come up. No idea where to go from here besides send it back, its about 2 years old

Our club is one short fish DQ's you for the whole tournament. Happens more than once your done. We've had the fish commission sit at our weighins a ton. We used to do a courtesy dink check for guys until the one guy came up with one that went short and he ended up getting a few hundred dollar fine for possessing a short fish.

Yes, exactly the same. I have gone so far as to plug both tubes (in and outflow) for the whole day and it is the same I have had it high enough to have it almost coming through the floor. Given it does sit lower than that but if I went any higher it would weigh three tons and blow my tires out. Ive had it about 8 inches deep in the back

The longest I have let it sit has only been about half an hour. Problem is that the closest water is half an hour away and when I go Im going to fish. That said, I have pulled all compartment containers to see down to the hull and still dont see anything

Not sure in your area but Ive actually seen Tundras going cheaper than Tacomas, F150's, and Silverados around here. They cant get rid of them because so many people are going with the smaller trucks. Im in the market as well and a F150 for example, with towing package and extended cab with 4x4 is about 4k more than the Tundras are going for with incentives

GPS coordinates can get you down to a foot or two. That being said, it needs several more than 3 satellites to do so

Ya, In the back even with all the batteries in I have full access to the thruhull fittings on both the bilge and livewell pumps as well as the in and outflow pipes at all connections, even where they go into the livewell. Still bone dry.

It is one of the removable rubber twist in plugs. Ive switched plugs to a new one and the same thing. I can see that from the inside and its dry as well. You can probably see why this is frustrating me so much haha

Ive only ever had that happen when I had 30 lbs of fish in there with it full and went to get on plane and it ran out on the deck lol. But again, ive had two people on the back deck at once looking in there and nothing.

I already did that. Said it in my original post but it's kind of hidden in the second paragraph. Not a drop comes out

Ive pulled all the fitting for the bilge and the livewells as well as sat there and looked at it and even after a day on the water they are dry as a whistle. It is coming from somewhere else. That was my first thought

Guys I am very close to pulling my hair out on this one. The boat is a 2005 G3 Eagle 175 (aluminum bass boat). About 6 months ago I noticed every once in a while my automatic bilge would come on, shoot out for about 10 seconds then stop for a few hours then do it again. Ever since then I have paid much closer attention to it and it's very strange. When I am fishing an electric only lake (not using the outboard) it will come on maybe once or twice throughout an entire day (6-8 hours), but when I am running the motor I can have it come on as much as once an hour. I will also add that since this has started it has NOT gotten any worse, it stays the same each and every time. Now I have fully inspected all welds on the hull, pulled all through hull fittings, and even filled the hull with water and not one drop came out. Everything appears perfect. It is a trailered boat so when I have done all of this it does have an area which lies under the bunks which I have not been able to see at all. In my mind it has come down to either running the boat expands the crack and lets more water in, or it is a broken speedometer tube which when the boat is running shoots water into the hull, and drips in when on an electric lake. I am at a total loss as to what else it even could be. Thanks in advance

There is an adjustment screw right by where the cable goes into the pedal. If it is wandering and you can essentially move the pedal about without the motor turning this is where the problem lies. What it is, is a tension adjustment for the cable. It is wandering because it is loose and becomes sloppy. Tighten that up, and I promise youll feel an instant change.

Keep your eyes pealed on finding a used one. I actually found a lightly used MK Maxxum 70lb in the Flea Market on here for $200 last year

Same thing happened on my car. It was a sticking brake caliper. Sometimes I would hear a grinding or whining and other times it would be perfectly fine. One day I went to look at it and my hand slipped off the wheel right onto the rotor and seared the tips off of my index and middle finger. Took it in and by the time I got there it had chewed the rotor apart and everything needed to be replaced. The longer you wait the more parts will wear out but thats also my guess as to what it is

Your telling me! I fished around it once and almost tossed a tungsten straight into it. Not I just skip by it haha

I can beat that. Theres a boat on the upper chesapeake on one of the first docks out that is a 42' Statement (beautiful clean boat) with triple 350 Mercs. On sale for a measly $375,000

Ya this worries me. The fuses are there for a reason

Invisible fish. I actually just caught one.