laduckhunter

I just got mine at the eye doctor. I think I paid around $180

T rig = Texas rig. A brush hawg is a type of soft plastic creature bait by a company called zoom.

No kidding. The police do not mess around here I haven;t made it that far east yet, but it is on my todo list.

I have thought about heading up to it, just didn't get a chance this year. I am in northern Louisiana.

I have thought about heading up to it, just didn't get a chance this year. I am in northern Louisiana.

I run a HB 571 in front and a HB 899 on the console. Hopeing to upgrade to something networkable for Christmas to replace the 571.

Right now all I have are 1/2 oz jigs.

I just started using a jig and craw recently. I seem to have a pendulum effect once my bait hits the water. I do not thumb the spool or rotate the handle at all. Should I possibly loosen the spool tension or do I need to just micro-manage pulling line from spool until it hits bottom?

Grinnell?

He is wanting to wire 2, 12v batteries in series for a 24v trolling motor, then just use one of the batteries normally to run his 12V applications. I would greatly recommend against it. Your trolling motor will create interference for your FF'ers.

I am super glad I went with at least a 7" screen for SI. After going to the local BPS, looking at the Helix 5 SI in demonstration mode, I believe I would have been unhappy.

Do thy make a distinctive sound when they reach the top water? Gar have a distinctive gasping for air sound a lot of times. Their swim bladder doubles as lung. My wife calls it out each time we hear one when we are fishing.

I finally had the "ah ha" moment when using my electronics this last weekend. I went to a dammed up creek that is 60-70% covered with cypress trees. These types of impoundments have given me non-stop trouble all summer. Goose egg after goose egg. They fish so different than what I normally fish, mainly the river system and creeks which connect to it. When a couple of my buddies wanted to have a little tournament, I decided what the heck, I can afford the $20 and at least I know it will go to a good cause, they stated my "dead" money would buy the beer for Saturday night. We launch at sunrise and spend a few hours circling groups of trees without a bite. My buddies are sending me txt messages of their catches just to rub it in. I stop the boat for 5-10 minutes. I think to myself, I am doing something wrong. As I look down at my Humminbird 899, I am thinking why have this expensive FF if I am not going to use it. For whatever reason, I had this preconceived notion that SI isn't for shallow water as we were fishing in 3-5ft of water. I have my buddy man the trolling motor; I set the SI range to 12 feet. I remember reading 2-2.5 times the depth is an optimal setting, and I direct my friend to drive around. Within 5 minutes, I find a depression ten feet in front of a group of trees with what appears to be four fish suspended right behind it. We stop the boat and catch 3 of the 4 using KVD 1.5's, then following up with Watermelon red baby brush hogs. Rinse and repeat. Over the course of the next hour, we catch 20 bass and bring in a 15lb five fish limit fishing the structure related to cover, instead of blinding throwing at trees. As we pull back up to the boat ramp, the guys are heckling us, asking if we even had a bite. As we pull the 6lb kicker out, their jaws drop We won by four pounds and finally got some respect in the eyes of our friends. I have only been bass fishing for six months down here in Louisiana while the rest of the guys have been fishing their whole lives on these waters. I thought to myself, man; maybe we just got lucky. We try the same technique again later that day and catch 30 more bass. This made me feel good, accomplished and put a smile on my face for days. THEIR dead money bought beer and steaks later that night, and now all of them are asking me questions about how to use their electronics more effectively!!! I consider this a win for bassresource, as 80% of what I know about bass fishing came from this website. A special thanks to Wayne P, who took the time to personally help me choose the FF'er and offered a lot of advice on the transducer, mapping and the overall setup. While I don't expect to have this success all of the time, I will always remember last weekend!

I bought this one on sale a few weeks ago. I am pretty happy with the unit.

I ended up going with navionics + preloaded. I uploaded my first recording of a bayou