jbmaine

All your parts are on the ground, not on the motor.?

Wish I'd read this BEFORE you gave me all those cupcake's.?

If All goes well we'll be out on the lake on Tues. I'll take some pics for you.

My FF are Garmins so I can't help you with that but, I have a bad back so I got an Ulterra to go on my Lund Fury XL sport and I love it. Mine's a 60" shaft. Put it this way, I can motor up to a spot, deploy the TM and spotlock it with out leaving my seat. Jog, I-Pilot, trim up , down, it all works as advertised. The only issue I have is every once in a while during calm windless days spot lock will disengage. But that is because I have an extra transducer cable on the TM and if it wraps up to much the TM will disengage spotlock before doing any damage. With any type of breeze this will not happen. I very seldom use the foot pedal, I like the remote much better. I was out the other day in 18 MPR winds, and had the sun top up ( think big sail ). I was spotlocked on a spot catching Smallies for over an hour and the boat never moved. I would buy it again.

Like many, we have had a summer that seems hotter and more humid than normal. Thunder storms most evenings followed by more humid air the next day. However, we finally had a weather change ( even if only temporary). Right now the air is finally cool and dry, the windows are open, and the AC is off. But what really makes me think fall is on the way is our bird feeder. During the summer I fill it up about every ten days, but for the last week the birds have been going crazy on it, and I'm filling it up every three days. That's usually a sign fall is on it's way. Anyone else starting to see signs like this?

same here, ask away

I did too, as I recall it had a special sound system so you could almost " feel " the explosions.

You are more than welcome, it was a fun day.

Why do we cut a tree DOWN, then proceed to cut it UP

I think A-JAY might have heard of this. Back in the 1970's I worked with a guy who had served in the Coast Guard. He swore the light house at the Isles of Shoals was haunted. He served out there when it was a manned station. The generator was in a separate building, and the main power disconnect was an old fashioned two lever switch that took real effort to move. More than once my buddy was sitting down to eat with the rest of the crew and the power died. They found the switch pulled down to the off position. They even tied a rope to it to keep it from moving, it still turned off.

We were out a couple of days ago on a rainy, overcast, foggy day. I thought sure the smallies would be moving around. Went to our usual smallie spots and tried top, and mid to lower column fishing from shallow water on out. Got zip. Went back to bouncing stuff on the bottom and caught fish. On this trip, nothing had changed from sunny days, to a overcast rainy day.

I haven't seen that used in years, but a call to the store would answer your question.

Too much coffee in the morning, the mad dash for shore, throwing off your vest, peeling down your waders. O!! the memories!!

The most peaceful type of fishing I've ever encountered was when I used to head to northern N.H. & ME flyfishing for trout. It was just so calming standing in a stream or river casting a fly. Doing that, the rest of the world didn't exist for me.

It's been a weird summer up here in Maine. I try for LM, but have had the most consistent luck with deep water SM.

I've caught a few that already had a hook in them, and had for some time. So some survive, but, I'm sure, not all.

On my echomap you get to quick draw thru the navigation charts, and the deeper the depth the wider it will draw.

I started out this spring with a new Garmin echomap chirp 73 on my console. As some of you may have read I had a malfunction with it and Garmin replaced it with a plus unit. Yesterday was the first time I had a chance to use it, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on it. First let me say I'm no expert on electronics and do not embrace new technology easily ( still don't have a smart phone or "I" anything.) Screen-- it is definitely clearer and sharper than the non plus unit. Also the field of view is a great improvement. We have a multi species boat and my wife can see this screen from the left seat. She could not see anything on the non plus unit unless I pointed it right at her. Touch screen functions-- I thought this was going to take time to get used to and be a pain in the butt, however within a few minutes I was calling up the different functions much faster than using push buttons. I really like it. Sonar-- I was using this at the same lake, and going over the same places, that I used the non plus unit on, and I was seeing more and sharper detail, and this was with factory settings. So far another definite improvement. I've tried regular sonar, down scan, and side scan and got good sharp detail on all three. Also-- as this doesn't have as many buttons, the whole unit is about an inch shorter in length than the non plus one, so it takes up less space. I think that at some point down the road, because of it's shorter length, I would probably have room to fit a 9" screen on the console. Dislikes-- So far nothing I can see except I still have a non plus unit in the bow, and I caught my self tapping the screen trying to get it to do things. This is by no means a technical review, but just my initial thoughts and impressions. If this changes down the road, I'll let you know. Thanks for looking Jim

Just an FYI for anyone planning to fish this area in the next few weeks. Per Maine fish and game the boat launch at Square pond will be closed for repairs from Sept. 4-21 and the Mousam lake launch will be closed for repairs from Sept 17- Oct.5

Another lefty here and proud of it.

Setting the hook on weeds from time to time is a fact of life in this kind of fishing. But as Bluebasser 86 said, the more experienced you get the easier it will be to tell the difference. I can't always tell someone how I knew it was a fish instead of weeds when I set the hook, but after fishing this way long enough your instinct will be sharpened enough to pick up the subtle difference between weeds and fish.

Had a cool, foggy, drizzly morning. Was hoping for top water but had to go deep. My wife hooked a good one ( I'm holding it for her) then a couple minutes later it was my turn. Notice her rod and reel on the first pic. Nobody will ever convince me a Zebco isn't up to the task.

Hello from just out side Kittery. Nice to have another Maine'r on board!

1) be safe 2) have fun 3) if you can't do 1 & 2, stay home

UPDATE II--- the plus unit arrived this morning. Everything was as I was told. I just had to swap out the cradle and plug the transducer and power cable in and it fired right up. We're heading out fishing tomorrow so I'll have a chance to really try it out. After I use it for a while I'll write and give a review.