Appreciate that info. Was fishing on the East side a ways above Meyers over deep water. I looked up to see a long boat with five or six rowers charging straight at me as they were sprinting from somewhere above the area of the Boy Scout camp towards the finish at Meyers. Did some “power trolling” at 5mph to get out of their way. We had a fish on. I never would have understood why they were insanely paddling straight at me without your post. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
I messed up a pair of tires running them at 32psi. Trailer tires are to be inflated to the maximum pressure indicated on the side of the tire. (normally marked somewhere between 50 and 65 psi)
Those look like the “Bag Lady” covers. Best ones I have ever seen. Mine are a million years old and still going strong. Great to see these! Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United
When you are bringing the downrigger back up - do not pop your main line off the downrigger release. Unclip the cheater when it reaches the surface. (This is for when you are retrieving and do not have a fish on the cheater or main line)
Frogger, I agree and see your question. I have been working on helping the OP get some basic understanding of his equipment. It does have a learning curve. For someone who already understands sonar, chart plotting and downrigger operation there definitely is a whole other set of questions to answer. I actually have moved away from bottom tracking. I have not even slightly increased my catch rate when tracking. It is a convenience but not a necessity. As stated before, I am a huge fan of the other features these riggers have. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
Think about how you compensate for offset with a non bottom tracking rigger. Watch your graph and pull it in a little if your hitting bottom Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
You have settings in your finder for low KHz beam and high kHz beam. Chirp is another setting that kind of combines both high and low kHz beams. The higher beam (200kHz) will throw a narrow beam and your downrigger balls may be outside its narrow focus under the boat. The lower beam (83kHz, 60kHz, 50kHz) is much wider and along with slightly tilting the tail of your transducer up, will allow you to see your rigger balls. If you go too fast and have light weight rigger balls, they may blowback so far you can’t see them. Also, you will need to turn the gain/sensitivity setting up to see stuff down deep.
Here is a photo from the Humminbird instruction manual that will help you
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I’ll try to reply with more detail later but I would touch base sometime with LOU member Yankee Troller. He is the wizard on Cannon products. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United