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I have always replaced mine with a lowrace transducer only because when it's working it rocks!! But now lowrance sucks in my opinion, and after 5 years they won't fix your sonar. So when I have my next problem with mine, I'll find a diffrent sonar company that will back there product.

200 is good for shallow water but the 50 is best for deeper water trolling. It uses more power and has a wider angle. in a 100 feet of water with the 200, i don't see my rigger balls or make out the thermocline. with the 50 I see all 4 balls and can see the thermocline break. I can also watch the fish streak in and out of the rigger balls. I never see that with the 200. Gpiatt, I have gone thru 4 transducers in the last 10 years. I spoke to a lowrance rep about this once at a show and he told me that if you use the 50khz more, you will burn out your transducer quicker, he said average life of a transducer running most at 50khz is two years so I would bet that you need a new transducer. it sucks because they aren't cheap!!!

Two questions, 1, what are you running your sensitivity at on the 50khz??. 2, How old is the transducer??

I did it for about a dozen years till I got a bigger boat. Flat line and planner boards with glow j plugs and glow mag spoons are killer. Last week of August till the end of September Start in 20 feet of water and come all the way into 5 feet. Almost run your boards on shore. Always troll into the wind of the water plume from the salmon river. Kings will have there noses pointing into the current out in the lake at night. BUT watch out for the drift boats out trolling at the mouth in the lake, most don't run navigation lights in the dark.

That absolutely sucks!! I have two of there most expensive units that just turned 5 years old. Now I can't get them fixed??? No more lowrance products for me!!!!

I have been running a green dot spinny and hammer live in the bright sun. sometimes switching to a green crinkle and glow big fin. anybody else want to share there bright sun flys?? just looking to try some different flys this year in bright conditions.

Tanner, i trailer from Mass and Pulaski is great at the end of August and September because the salmon are in shallow getting ready to run the rivers. I fish out of Oswego most of the time(except late August). deep water is a short ride out in Oswego unlike pulaski were you need to motor out quiet a ways to hit the deep water 200 +. I run 3 riggers on my boat, two dippys and one copper down the chute. i have a 20' foot islander. Pick up some spin doctors and atommik flys. White and green spines with glow, green and hammer flys. spoons can vary, but mag glows and green and blue work very well. Good luck......its very addicting. I did Champlain and Winni for a while but nothing beats Lake Ontario!! I'm hooked on her for life.

Just curious......I have always just run two spinnys on the corner riggers and one clean spoon down the chute rigger. I just read that many guys run 3 or sometimes 4 spinnys on riggers in late summer. Does anyone else do this?? It seems to me that it may be to much action under the boat???

Make sure your sensitivity is turned way up. I was taught by a lowrance tech that if you turn the sensitivity way down to loose the clutter, you will miss a lot of fish and bait on the screen.

Heaviest concentration of fish will be staging from Oswego to port Ontario getting ready to run.

Good to know. thanks guys!! will save me some cash on fluro!!

They seem to have a hard time sticking to the bigger line. 30lb big game works good.......not perfect but makes it so you can deal with them. I was curious if others run the big line straight to the spinnys or use a fluro leader. i fear that some of the kings who have been exposed to fishing pressure may shy away from the big line. BUT looks like I was wrong. Which makes me happy because now I don't have to spend big bucks on fluro line!!

I have been running 30lb big game main line to keep the fleas off. I run a 6' section of 30lb fluro at the end to the spinny to be safe. does anybody else do this or do you just run your main line to the spinny?? Just curious to see what everyone else does.

Last summer off of Fairhaven I ran a 10' lead of the riggers and caught all we wanted. Where the 60 degree water meets the bottom is where they will be. Make sure you have bait on the bottom too. Dippies on a number 2 setting 6 feet off the bottom was deadly when the sun came out.

I will Richard!

we will be running out of Oswego for the Fairhaven challenge. Maybe ill run into you. Its always nice to meet other "mass holes" in New York!

Richard, I'm from Gardner. About 30 miles to the north west of Worcester. I trailer up and fish out of Fairhaven, Oswego, and in late August we fish out of Port Ontario.

and how about the Fairhaven challenge?? where do we register for that one?? It will be my first time fishing it.

Thanks guys for the info. Its greatly appreciated!!

well.......I thought i would try posting over in this forum but I guess its not allowed. sorry to trouble you mortigan.