Fishstix

After about 20 yrs of dependable service Im retireing my Furuno depthfinder . Its a fcv667 color . Its never failed me. Its like a little TV you have to let it warm up . Still works great. Last year I bought a Garmin 50dv as a primary chartplotter . It also has a fishfinder .. I run the Furuno and Garmin side by side.200khz on one 77khz on the other. After I got the little garmin dialed in it shows me the same stuff the Furuno does except for the thermalcline. I dont really care about the thermalcline I catch more fish out of temp than where they are supposed to be. So I bought a Garmin 73dv. To replace the Furuno. Bigger ,brighter, screen My eyes are failing .A new Furuno is just to dam expensive.I have not removed the Furuno yet and I hope to have the garmin up and running this weekend. Ill post how it works out. If it works OK Ill remove the Furuno and pass it on to some young guy starting out.

I also fished the N end today. Got three fish to the boat. Dropped a few behind the boat .No silver action. The stuff that works on Cayuga doesnt seem to work on Seneca,I seen the fish down real deep 200ft plus but I did not go after them. They were on huge piles of bait..Derby time I might but I was not keeping fish. The fish we caught were spittin up minnows ,not the gobies they are supposed to be eating. The fish we caught were scraped off the bottom could not find the suspended fish in the zone I like to target.

I did not see a fishing report for Cayuga Sat. so Ill put one out.Treman launch. Got out on the water about 1 in the afternoon. Set up with 2 riggers ,2 divers and 2 cores.Set up over 200fow. I had a clean screen except for bait and fish over 200ft down.trolled north for over 2 hrs never wiggled a rod and marked a handful of fish.What a change 1 week makes. I did not change lures as there was nothing on the screen to fish for. I was just telling Willie this could be first skunk of the year. Got up to about halfway between Meyers and AES started seeing some bait ,marked a few fish. Adjusted some depths and it was game on. Boated a dozen fish all lakers ,a couple dandys in the mix. 80 to 120 down ,200 feet of wire on mag dipseys ,the leadcores caught no fish.green or white were the colors . 1.9 was the speed. spoon bite...

Ive got six sets of hammerheads.They work great but they seem to top out about 1.8.they still work at higher speed but drag real hard. I like to run 2.2 to 2.6 . and throw a few spoons and paddles in the mix. The plastic[MYLAR] bladed cowbells seem to work at the higher speeds with less drag.I could be wrong but I swear they were SnS. Thanks for the responses.

Looking for a few sets of cowbells with the plastic spinnerblades. I already have hammerheads and lhur jenson metal blades,but the plastic blades seem to be more speed tolerant. 4" or 5" blades color is not real important but glows would be the best. The plastic sets I have now were purchased at Ekerts in Ithaca years ago.Im thinking the mfg. was SnS. Contact me via this board. Thanks Fishstix ....

I think most folks with 1k for a fishing tourney already have a boat. Ive been wrong before. You asked for thoughts and I dont want to start any computer arguements , I think its a terrible idea.............

, I will be on 68.I will probably be over 350 FOW. Fishing the thermal if I can find it down around 60 to 80ft. Last Saturday didnt get out till after 2 in the afternoon . Three of us in the boat ran 7 rods and all of them were working.Fished from Meyers north just out of all the boat traffic. Couldnt break 7lbs.on lakers. Couldnt find the big fish high in the water colum. So 240 on the wire was the hot ticket. Did a bonus rainbow 38 down on the rigger on a paddle peanut. Cowbells off the riggers deep did a few fish. Suttons off the cloth did a few small landlocks.Good luck to all during the derby. I just cant decide if Im fishing out of Long point or do the Meyers North thing again.

Anyone got the derby dates? Me and the ole.Williefish are getting in. Got to make our annual donation,or just may take a little bit this year.....