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http://www.cabelas.com/product/Fishing/Tackle-Storage/Tackle-Bags%7C/pc/104793480/c/104777280/sc/104619780/Cabelas-Deluxe-Fisherman-Seriestrade-Tackle-Bag/1875487.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Ftackle-bags%2F_%2FN-1100378%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104619780 I purchased this one, it goes on sale for $40. It'll fit 7 3700s 2 3600s and a 3500 in the front. Even with all the it's compact for its abilities, I carry 5 3700s and my bags of ziploc plastics in the main compartment. Mine came with 5 or 6 3700s too, hard to beat for the price.

Well I got back out Saturday, I played with more settings and noticed after I changed the color scale from black to blue I could see a lot more on the fish finder. I also took some screen shots of me at travel speed (15mph) to show the the finder does during these speeds. If someone could shed some light on what you may or may not see in the screen shots that would be appreciated. I turned fish ID back on as I'm still not confident in what I'm possibly seeing. Details on this lake. Man made, some areas are very stumpy. There's anything from bass, crappie, gar, stripers, pickerel in this lake. I will say for as many of the arches I see that appear to be trees, I can cast right back to that area and not pickup anything...Thus my distrust. 1. Fish arches or tree tops? I see this often while cruising. 2, Bait? Also notice the lines below 10 feet, I noticed a lot of the lake like this at those depths and lower, is that the thermocline? 3. Same as above, another example. 4, Here's my screen shot of me traveling at top speed. Poor return. 5. I use to run this area over with my old graph and notice it was odd, could this be an old bridge? I ran back over it with the DI but could've replicate the look. I find the DI hard to read, the colors are too dark IMO. 6. Last one, I imagine a combo of bait and fish.

I see. Well hopefully this helps, I was looking at ram mounts to get this closer to my face for travel and remembered I had a ram camera mount for my race car...turns out it was the same bolt pattern as the garmin base, who would've guessed?! I'm going to mount that up tomorrow should raise the unit about 6-8inch, and maybe I'll start to get some use out of this unit. I'll report back soon.

I plead ignorance, when I uninstalled the original unit on the boat i put it in the same place. Thanks for the tip. I was able to move it exactly 6" before I was out of mounting space. Still has 3 screws in it. I too was concerned maybe about prop wash but I hope the original tracker dealer would've put this mounting block on the correct side, all bets are off.

Thanks for the reply Wayne. Check it out below attached.

Sorry for the late response there, Mark did emailed me back shortly after I left him a voicemail. He asked me to send the baits in and they would replace them. I'll update with what I receive!

I wanted to bump this thread. Anyone with this unit have issues with it losing signal at speed? My boat is slow...15mph max slow, but at those speeds I get no clear bottom reading i only get depth, I have the scroll speed to UltraScroll, and mostly I just get thin lines running vertically at those speeds. I leave the depth ranges on auto, and the gain settings on auto-high. I really have no confidence in this fish finder from shear ignorance on how it works and believing what I'm seeing, I suppose I should just go out and play around with it more? I just don't know if I'm wasting my time if there is an issue with it. I'd like to reiterate getting a larger screen.

Thanks for the reply, it wasn't a dud out of the package I caught 7 fish with it before i noticed it none the less was more curious on lifespan of the lures in hard bottom situations. I emailed them a few days ago and just left a message tonight.

I've shot them an email already but no reply in two days. I'm sure they email address they have listed there gets flooded. Thanks for the reply.

Wanted to hear others experiences with some of the deep divers on the market. I spent last week fishing a relativly hard bottom lake, attempting to wear myself and these 6 xds out. I fished 4 diffenret 6xds and 2 5xds. All of the bills have some roughness to be expected, one of the 6xds sinks like a rock and another one slowly sinks. I have to imagine they are cracked somewhere but I can't find it. The one that sinks fast I didnt even notice until it was running hard left as it got close to the boat, funny thing was is I had a good sized pike follow it in and it was d**n near upside down at the boat. I adjusted the line tie and it got better, but was still all over the place after a few more cast. Is this to be expected maintaining bottom contact with these baits? Good news is they are pretty inexpensive and I caught a good amount of fish with them. I picked up a few Little John DD's on sale at gander mountain, I only threw one for about a half hour with no luck. I have a lot of confidence in all of the strike king cranks, as I really enjoy power fishing. My regular lakes at home are man made and have a lot more timber in the water, I like to keep my cost per bait down for these reasons LOL.

The Zman pop shad is another topwater option. Other then that I think you're down to weedless swimbaits. Those are tough fishing conditions.

Hello all. So I consider myself still a relativly new fisherman. I've only been fishing heavily for a little over a year, I fish rather shallow but I decided I was going to trial by fire deep diving crank baits. I had already had a ML crankin stick I purchased for 1.5s and fell in love with how easy it was to fish and how well it kept fish buttoned. So I went to bass pro again and bought a telescopic 7'6 MH Crankin stick (so it fits in my truck) and a Abu Garcia Orra Winch. Filled it up with 12lb Yo zuri hybrid Fast forward, I take a yearly vacation to Northern New york and my family has a place on one of the smaller indian lakes up there. This is much different then my home lakes, being a natural pretty clear water setup. So I bought a bunch of 5 and 6xds and figured hey i have time to learn them. Well it went well, I got nothing on my first bait I threw for about a hour. I switched up to a natual color with no rattle and hooked up wiht 5 nothern pike in 1 hour. I was hooked! (Hardy har) I threw them a lot from there forward, over the week I caught near 50 fish and 90% of them were on the 6xd. I only lost three fish the entire week on that pole, lucky? Probably some, two of those fish were my fault, I tried to boat flip a bass that ended up being bigger then i thought...I lost him even though he had both hooks (4lb est). The other fish I lost I never saw, it felt like a heavier Northern....I had the drag too tight and he tried to run and it pulled the bait out of his mouth. After this fish i loosened up my drag and had no more issues. I caught a lot of fish on just one treble and they stayed hooked even on hard surges at the boat. SUPER impressed. Now onto the bad, or what i need to learn. Since this pole is so "moderate" I have a hard time feeling the bottom unless I'm hammering it same to be said for grass on the bait. When I do feel the grass I was having a hard time clearing it like I can on a fast action rod. Sometimes I'd reel in and have grass on the bait and I never felt it. These poles really mask the crankbait's wobble, does anyone have any suggestions or is it simply more experience? Another thing is after the first full day of fishing my ring finger and pinky felt numb. My elbow didnt hurt, just my hand. This is the hand that holes the reel while cranking, the 6xds pull this rod pretty good. The 5xds are way lighter of a tug. Is this to be expected or is my form bad? I have to imagine I flat out overdid it that day, I tossed these things for hours. With all this said I hope I can translate this into my home lakes which are all manmade and much more hangups. I fished all week and didnt lose a single lure there, around here I'll lose a few a day even with a retriever and a pole. 6lb Northern ( for the lake it's a pretty good size, no known monsters in there) 4.7lb Bass

I will say every walmart I've been too puts there clearance items in different spots. These were up front in just random bins with lots of other random things like make up LOL. When I went back to the fishing section there was another random assortment of clearance items but it was all junk. So needless to say it may pay off to wander around and ask an employee or two where they keep the sale items.

Something I just wanted to pass on that I found at my local walmart tonight. (Suffolk, VA) They had size 1,2,4,6,8 in the bargin clearance section for $1/package. These are normally $4.24 there. Your results may vary, two of the packages rang up at $3 but they adjusted it at the register. Good deal for the drop shotters! If this is the wrong forum to post this I apologize..

I purchased the XI5 GPS 12v for my 165 bass tracker this year and I am in love with it. My biggest complaint all of last year bass fishing was fighting the wind and a sore back from standing on a trolling motor pedal all day would really bother me. My uncle has a MK wireless unit and it's very loud turning, my XI5 is near silent. The spot lock feature has by all means allowed me to catch more fish and fish a lot slower no matter the circumstances. On very rare instances it will wander, usually when I'm in the back of a very tight cove I think the GPS gets spottty. Over correction is minimal and it really shines in heavy wind. The "jog" feature is nice to use and the heading lock is nice when you want to retie while traveling. I don't have a Sonar tied to mine yet so I haven't even unlocked it's full potential and I'm completely satisfied with my investment. Last year I would avoid windy days, this year I've fished everyday I could possibly so far. I really enjoy the remote, and havnt even tried to use the pedal yet, getting it off my deck gives me less to trip on. I purchased my setup though black bear sporting goods, best price I found and I was still able to get the $50 rebate on my setup.

Nice video, found your link from your rod thread. I purchased the ML crankin stick and like it so far for the KVD 1.5's. Hell of a pond you have there!

Same here all of our local lakes are 9.9 limited, not sure what prop you are running and if you know your RPM. I switched the 9 prop that came with for a 8, I will tell you i hit a stump with the brand new prop and it knocked my MPH down almost 1. All of our lakes are manmade so they are stump city in some area's. If your prop is beat up it maybe worth looking into. I got mine cheap on iboats.

I purchased this unit when it went on sale last year. I'm pretty new when it comes to knowing what im looking at, the picture is pretty clear. When i have the gas motor running i get some interference as i believe where i have the transducer mounted is on the wrong side of the prop. If I could do it all over again I'd splurge on a larger screen. I have good vision but figure normally wearing sun glasses and the screen is 6 feet away from your eyes when standing up....a 5 inch screen is pretty small. I tried to reseach this unit before purchasing but found very little info. Most of my lakes locally are not more then 30ft deep, probably should've went with a side scan unit.

Whether this helps or not. I have a 2001 Pro Team 165, had a 9.9 on it 4 stroke Mercury. Wouldnt see over 7-8mph with 2 people, it'd plane out with just me and do roughly 11. Replaced the carb with a 15hp carb (only difference that year) and got the boat on plane and now it does 13-15 mph with 2 people and 17-18 with just me...to the point of hitting rev limiter in cooler weather. I fish primaryly with 2 people so I keep the lower prop on it. I bought my used boat last year for $2800, from what I've seen the boats havent changed much throughout the years. If you have an option to try before you buy, I think used is the way to go if you have cash in hand. I also feel much less bad when i smack a stump in my cheap old boat rather my 12-15k new one.