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Bought a brand new eagle claw trolling rod last Saturday. Used it for the first time today. When I went to pickup I grabbed the rod to snap it of the release and guess what happened. Snap! In two. Anybody else ever do this???

Adk1 the same with us.it can get pretty crazy when the kings are inclose!!!

Fish finder seems to be working better but now my navionics chip is not working on the gps. Do they ever go bad?

Tried the boat out tonite. It didn't seem to lose signal but now the navionics chip wasn't working. Any input on this? I think next season a new graph may be in order. Grrr.

Ok thanks!!!

When you guys say a puck on fish finder what do mean? I know it is a stupid question but I was wondering what it meant

Tom I am wondering if it isn't a voltage issue like you are stating. I have a buddy that used to be a marine mechanic. This sounds like. A job for him. First I am going to run to wires to the battery for my next trip. I don't think it is anything with the finder because it worked good for him. When you say puck what do you mean by that?

This spring I bought a used eagle fishfinder off a buddy. I think it is a 640. It has the gps with the external antenna. I have been having problems with the sonar loosing signal while trolling with it. The depth starts blinking then the screen gets blank. Then after a while it seems to fix itself for a bit. I have played around adjusting the tranducer but it doesn't seem to help. The gps keeps working fine. When I installed it I just used a wire under the dash that my old lowrance was hooked to. That seemed to work fine. Should I run a wire all the way directly to the battery? Also about a month ago battery died out on the lake. I charged it up and load tested it and it tested alright. Any help would be appreciated!!!!!

I am not a pro but we use bottom bouncers and worm harness a lot. I usually run about .9 with them for walleye. The key is to make sure you got them on bottom. You can see it in the rod. The 3 ouncers are good to about 25 to 30 ft of water.

Thanks Jiffyjerk. That is exactly what I was looking for. I could find the models but no dimesions. I am cutting it tomorrow night!!!!!!!! I think I will still be able to get down to walleye speeds!!!!

They make one up to 50 hp. That's the demesions I am looking for.

I am thinking about that. Trolled for four hours Saturday and burned 10 gal of gas. Seems like a lot doesn't it. Before I had the plate I was running two 5 gal pails. Worked pretty good, but one night on the way home the pails blew out somwheres.

I am running a davis trolling plate that is the large plate on my 50 horse. It seems like way to much. I was wondering if anybody has the dimesions of the smaller plate. I am thinking of trimming some off the big plate. the plate is great for walleye speeds. When I try to get up above two I have to run pretty hot on the motor, and am burning a ton of fuel. Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks

Ran it today on a local lake with some other trees that my buddy built. I didn't have any luck on them. Did pick up a few small lakers on a couple spoons, but was real slow fishing. I ran a about 1.7 on the gps, but think I could go slower yet. They seem to be spinning pretty fast at that speed. Any input?

I am going to try to run them with flatfish on Sunday. I will let you know how it works out.