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Are you catching eyes? Or just noticing no sheepshead or silvers,

Yea it gets you in the ball park,

BS I bet that was a nice experience, having to be a night owl isn't my gig anymore, I also pay for it the next day!!

I have the Navionics hot maps premium, there are 118 lakes and resivours on it even my little home town lake and a little lake in NJ called Swartswood, you can do a look-up by going on their site to see if that body of water is on there, I'm quite impressed with this chip, I bought it on sale at Cabelas, list for $149.00 and I got it for $129.00

DJ I have been using the dive chart for the same size dipsy, and it holds pretty close, I don't have my books at home they are in NY. Or I'd send you the dive charts.

When we went out to Erie we took a charter out of turtle point and we stayed in Lamberjacks marina we got to know the owner well after going there for 5 years straight, anyway he had a plane and the airport was only 5 minutes away, he would fly over the lake to spot the schools of eyes and write the GPS. Coordinates down for the charter captains, one day Vince asked me if I wanted to go with him, I was ecstatic that he asked me, I couldn't say yes fast enough, we left at 5:30am we flew over Kelly's island and headed west towards Sister and West Sister Island where we spotted a dark spot in the water, Vince said those are eyes!! Holy $hit you got to be kidding me, that school was 3/4 miles wide and 1 1/2 miles long, we circled around and landed it was 6:15am when he told the charter captain and they were off by 6:30am the group was back at the dock by 11:30am with a 6 man limit of eyes. I put those numbers in my GPS and we left later about 7:30am and we were back around 2pm with a 3 man limit, big #5 copper blades with a 3oz bottom bouncer at 1.8mph did the job. That was one of the best trips I ever had. Totally awesome!!!

Welcom aboard EYETRACKER, your in the right county for eyes with the waters you mentioned!!

I would have no problem helping forum folks, the thing that's bad is shipping and handling, in my work starters and alternators are heavy, I would help my fellow fisherman at cost less my time only thing I think UPS or the mail would eat up your gain. most of my work when it comes from far away is shipped by truck.

Contact MooseKnuckle, he has a place right on the marsh somewhere, I'm sure he knows that place inside and out.

Welcome to the site Bill, yea it's addicting, but I have found its the best high you will experience once that fish hits the deck knowing it was your blood sweat and tears that put it there!!! Good luck and tight lines to you. PAP

That's correct Jim, that's why its very important to have no less than 1.5 volts difference between your battery and the hot lead to the alternator, any more resistance in that line will make the alternator work harder than it has to. If the alternator can't reach the 14.1 volts the regulator will be in the charge mode constantly, this creates heat which raises havoc on the rectifier which will result in a premature failure, and the next unit you bolt on will do the same!!

Pretty cool BS. Kind of reminds me of the good OL' snagging days, shoulder to shoulder!! I know a few guys from out that way, from when we used to fish the western basin of Erie, they used to plan their vacation days for fishing the eye run.

Being I have F&F Starter and Alternator, my shop is in Kresgeville Pa, have been in business since 1983, the marine industry has been one of the most controversial field at our meetings, earlier Mercruiser, Volvo Penta, whether powered by Chrysler, Ford, GM, they wanted us to keep the charge rate at 13.8V and no lower then 13.5V where Ford always had a higher charge rate at 14.8 batteries won't "cook" until they reach 15 volts, so we hade special regulators to install in the alternators. Their train of thought was many continuous hours of use would over charge batteries, and if a regulator opened up a little it still would be below the 14V and still be safe. They were more concerned with the gasses that the battery gives off once they get hot, most units were in in the 39 to 55 amp area, as time went on and electronics become more demanding they pumped up the voltage to 14V. Then they Mercruiser went to foreign company called Mando and they produced a 65 amp alt. That was adjustable, all you had to do is remove the 4 screws that held the Reg. On and they would set the voltage to suit the boats needs, 13.5 to 14.2 with the motor running you just needed to turn a little screw on the inside of the Reg. We needed to keep a close eye on this as the Regulators were not set and on a rebuild we needed to adjust these Regs. Which we usually knew what the customer had or wanted and would set the voltage to suit their needs. Now they have Delco, Valeo, Mando all depends who throws the lowest number at the manufacturer, all the new units come with a fixed voltage regulater usually at 14.1. With the new fuel injected motors and all the newest electronics, a boat designed for fishing has a higher bigger Alt. than a boat designed for Pleasure other than big cabin cruisers, Another reason they got away from a Delco alternator was the manufacturers found out that us rebuilders were boosting up Alts. to suit the customers needs, we were building 100 amp units and keeping the voltage at 13.8 which saved batteries and the guys had all the power they needed!! Lights, riggers, airaters, refridguaters you name it, that didn't suit the manufacturer, but what they didn't know is they kept the same mounting design, so we would just swap out the foreign units and put in a Delco unit, but soon they caught on and switched up the brackets that only that unit fit in its place. I just replaced the Alt. in my boat and I put a Delco unit in place of the old Mando, the one I built is 130 amp and voltage is set at 14.1 since I did this my motor runs smooth, more electric to the points, batteries are topped off at all times, funny thing is with the old Mando unit at 13.8 volts my guage ran in the upper half of green, now I'm border line in the green red but I know I'm at 14.1 the old school guage reads different. Delco is back into the picture with the new 7SI which is 70 amp and the voltage is set at 14.1. They also have a 5SI which 50 amp units voltage is 14.1 also. Just a little info from the rebuilders corner. Pap.

You are very welcome Adam, thanks for the gracious invite!! Good luck, this board is put together with a vast of knowledge from every walk of life, I think that's why this is the greatest fishing site there is, for the northeast. Your friend PAP!!!! {Mike}

This is probably your issue, do the same with the ground, it could be that your ground is loose or dirty, a bad ground will create a heavier amp draw and that's what's causing a weak link to come into play with a power loss, even though your reading 14 volts with a digital meter. If you have a tail light assembly hook that up to your power source and see if the light comes on and use the ground source of the finder, should be nice and bright, if not use processes of elimination until problem solved?