Best of luck to you Dan. This is the place to start. Bunch of good folks here to help out. Welcome to the site and it's good to see a fellow diver on board. Bob - P.A.D.I. Divemaster rating since 1973.
I like the Husky Jerks in Blue/Silver and Crayfish colors. Very good luck with the Browns last year in Oswego. Seems like they liked the slow stuff better for me last year. I tried the jointed & didn't have as good luck. Maybe it was just my speed.
My sister Delores Smith has a small business & does custom embroidered hats, shirts, jackets, etc. She can be reached by email at tmdoll@dreamscape(dot)com Excellent work.
Send her an email on what you want and she can quote you a price.
Snow on the boat this time of the year is a good thing. The fish think it's an iceberg and don't shy away from it. A good recommendation is to put sandpaper on the bottom of your "sneakers" so you don't slip.
I've got two of them on my boat. I took a hole saw for doorknobs and drilled a hole in two sides of the bucket. This keeps them from spinning all the time. I put the holes about 2 inches from the bottom. They work great.
The Alaskan fisheries are well regulated. Many commercial catches are limited by a total tonnage. ie: When the total tonnage of a certain fish is caught, all commercial boats fishing for that species MUST halt fishing for that species and return to port with whatever they have in their hold. The season for that species is then closed to commercial fishing. This is STRICTLY enforced.
They are equally strict in job opportunities in Alaska. Just look at what they have to say about foreign workers: http://www.labor.state.ak.us/esd_alaska ... arning.htm
I wish other States were as strict.
I use a "Digital" I bought from someone on another site. It seems to work very well for me. http://www.mycellularsolutions.com/digitalantenna.html
http://www.boatersland.com/digvhf.html
A nice feature of the Cannon's is the ability to follow the bottom contour and auto adjust the depth of the ball. Your fishfinder has to have this feature to accept the accessory though. I don't have these yet so I'd also like to hear from anyone who uses them.
I don't know what happened but it's all better now.
Yup I am running Firefox, but there was no scroll bar before. Everything fits in the window now though. Thanks