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    Priceless!
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    No guarantee just worth a try
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    It may not be the transducer location that is the problem. I wonder if setting the ping rate higher might help? I think there is a glitch in the software though as I have had it happen right at start up in the past too. Sometimes I have had to change the depth range manually from auto to say 250 and let it acquire bottom and then change it back to auto and turn it off then back on.
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    Maybe Wally knows the answer. I never saved my waypoints etc.as I keep the specific fishing spots in my head.
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    Littering is a far greater problem than just the Salmon River or New York State for that ma\tter. The oceans of thew world are becoming waste dumps and take a look at the road ways nearly anyplace you travel and folks have thrown out cig butts, beer cans, McDonald's bags full of trash etc.. I will say it seems less of a problem in some of the western states but they also tend of have smaller populations too. It is truly a shame The folks doing this just don't care and the problem is so extensive with poor ability to monitor or intervene to prevent. Now people are saying lets explore Mars....yeah right that will make another great trash dump.
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    Did you update the software to the 2016 version 6 and the 2019 GPS Rollover patch? https://downloads.lowrance.com/ I still occasionally have the same problem but last time out I was marking bottom fine at 40 mph. I think there is a bug in the software but the unit is not in all probability going to receive more updates.
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    We do seem to be getting a bit carried away on this thread. These are important perspectives both ways but like the debate last night the real issues have been obscured or the actual focus on them has not been totally productive. I think many folks are on edge because of the covid crap underneath all this and the limitations it has imposed on our lives so we might want to lighten up all the way around and maintain mutual consideration and respect for each other despite our differences of perspective and interests. The DEC folks try hard to do their jobs and these are especially difficult times for many reasons. Whether we agree with them or not we need to be supportive of their efforts as they operate within a huge sometimes cut-throat bureaucracy and some of their policies and operations may not be fully under their own control anyway. Not trying to preach but we do need to keep perspective here.
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    I'd take him up on it Tony. Joe knows what he is doing and is familiar with both environments (e.g. Lake O and the Finger Lakes fishing) so he'd be able to tell you what types of things transfer between the two and what doesn't as well as differences in specific tactics.
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    Good luck. If t he water still has any mudline from the recent rain along the shore try to fish in and out of where it meets the clearer water.
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    A family that hunts and fishes together stays together Bill
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    My hunch is that there may be more browns than folks think but a) they tend to locate in difficult to fish spots (e.g. at the deep edge of drop-offs, b) they are primarily night feeders and not many folks night fish anymore, They are not "roamers" like rainbows and tend to locate in set areas much of the time depending on food availability....they are never far away from bait and food sources. Even the big ones are fond of small stickbaits and spoons trolled at long distances from the boat. Unfortunately the boat traffic on Canandaigua for much of the season is insane and I think a lot of the browns are spooked by it and hunker down near bottom near mouths of streams (not many on Cdga) and in the 40- 80 ft range near bottom around the drop-offs and they are tough to get at when trolling. Stillfishing for them with bait is more productive here as you can present the bait much more precisely and they are more tempted by it (whether alive or dead). In low light conditions in early AM trolling right around docks and shorelines with inline boards and small stickbaits or toplines way in back of the boat can be productive, but you pretty much have to go with just those shallow rigs because of the highly irregular bottom so it limits number of lines that can be used (e.g. pretty much impossible to use riggers or things like wire rigs etc). Black and silver Rapalas and the black and gold ones seem to attract them, Small spoons such as the little Honeybees also work well. You may want to stay away from chartreuse color or blues in there as the smallies will hammer the blue and the pickerel can be a problem with the chartreuse.
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    Great report Rick and I would echo the above comments. This hasn't been an easy year for any of us out there but it has nevertheless been a good one and you seemed to set the bar for many of the rest of us with your generous detailed reports and stimulating pics. You obviously work hard to get your customers and friends into the fish and it shows Best of luck on Oneida and be ready to cull the little guys (e.g. those 14 inchers)
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    At the other end of the spectrum.....I have two Mag 10A's that have the original cable from when I purchased them new in 1985. Yes they are slow to retrieve etc. but I think the slower motors, and the fact that they have always had 10 lb weights and have been re-terminated routinely may be a factor in the longevity. When the increased speed/power of the motors is combined with much heavier weights I think a lot more stress is being placed on the cable itself (which may not be apparent or visible) and the cable tensile strength probably hasn't been adjusted to account for this as I think they are still using the same 150 lb cable they used with the older/weaker motors. .
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    I think I'd be putting on some new cable maybe 200 lb? and re-terminating the probe rigger. regardless
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    Your question has a basic problem from the start. The speed at the weight and speed at the surface do not have the same constants attached to them to allow a direct comparison. The surface speed is based on either an impeller attached to your depth finder or GPS speed noted on it. They each refer to different measures of speed and are based on different factors. As such they have different error factors attached to them as well as the GPS speed is based on speed over ground (the lake bottom) and the impeller device is measuring the relative speed of your boat moving across the surface of the water which is based on the rate of rotation of the impeller as it processes the water turbulence passing over it. These impellers are usually least accurate at the extreme upper and lower values. The speed at the weight of the downrigger using a Fishhawk is also based on an impeller type measure and it is a function of the rate of water passing over the surface of the impeller causing it to rotate which in turn is interpreted as speed on the display. Because this impeller is down below the boat and not at the surface the measure is very different as it can be affected by many other factors such as underwater current, the movement of the weight back and forth in the water etc. In other words you can't assume that the speed at the weight and speed of boat at surface will always be the same even if just slightly below the surface. Beautifully spotted up brown by the way
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    Good info Mike Thx.
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    I fully agree that it totally sucks. I was there a couple months ago with a buddy in his 20 ft aluminum boat and my jaw dropped open when I saw the dock as we launched. The material that the dock is made from is top notch but that's it. It should have been a "floater". Apparently they installed it at the high water level. When we launched there was a young guy in a small boat behind us ready to launch with two very young girls in their pajamas (it was about :45 AM) and he was by himself. I have no idea how he launched. At the time there was a railing at the front of the launch that prevented you from easily managing the ropes etc. We fished and then when we came back in there were others having difficulty launching and the southeast wind had picked up which was pushing us toward the dock. The dock was so high that we couldn't just jump out of the boat onto it and as you said there was the possibility of damaging the boat by going underneath. Luckily one of the guys standing on the dock grabbed the ropes so we avoided what could have been some damage to my buddy's boat. I have launched from literally dozens if not hundreds of places over the years both fresh and saltwater places and this is absolutely the worst designed launch I've ever seen. The huge pothole was still there in the pavement of the launch that time too and it has been there for years. I decided right then to never again launch there with my own boat. Oh and you also have to be careful with your lower unit because the bass guys powerload despite the sign prohibiting it and there can be unseen stone piles in the middle of the launch.So much for what seemed to be encouraging signs last year
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    Nice going that sure is a beauty. As far as the browns go they seem to be scarce now but trolling has never been the most productive way to get them on Canandaigua either so it is difficult to assess right now.
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    I believe it was mid February and yes it seemed fat with eggs but none came out anything and it put it back in and it swam off
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    Serves me right on the bottom ones all I saw was the silver bodies as the top parts blended in to the background so the profile looked different I also didn't catch what looks like it may be part of a spot at the center base of the tail of the first fish....guess I stand corrected.
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    I give up....you guys might want to take a look at pics of rainbow Smelt bring it up on Google or Bing or something. This is one I caught a couple years ago through the ice.
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    It's a Rainbow Smelt. Despite the rumors there are still a few smelt in Keuka Take a look at this if you are still confused on the ID http://www.bing.com/search?q=Cisco+the+fish&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=cisco+the+fish&sc=2-14&qs=n&sk=&cvid=816EF2AEAFE94FB29B424BECD334ACE5
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    Top one is a rainbow smelt> Not 100 percent sure on bottom ones could be immature smelt or sawbellies?
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    High Bidder - Not sure what plugs were used the last time installed but usually the Platinums are installed when new and they are intended to last for 100,000 miles on cars with that engine. If subsequent plugs were those I should think you should be good with only that much use despite the use being different than on a car. Those plugs are very fragile and often break during removal and a special tool may be required to get out the plug if that happens.
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