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Agree Pap, I have to put my best interest in the fact that Lowrance has been a steady edy over the past years, Ive been with them since the x-16 paper to the LMS days, always backed me whenever I had a question. I do understand when you get something that doesnt work how frustrating it gets, been there done that.

Let us pray!

Caught in 2004 in Holland by an angler named Ewot Blom 42.9 lbs 127 cm long. Found a website called lucky lures that has the worlds biggest pike records on it. You would be surprised to know that NewYork has a NorthAmerica Record of 46 lbs and 52 inches long on Sacandaga lake back in 1940.

I'm surprised your seeing a neg volt with manuals. One thing you can test is touching the neg to your neg side of the battery with a volt tester and dipping your positive lead into the water. You should see a neutral voltage of .6 to .7 volts. Then touch the cable with the pos lead and see if it changes. If both are negative readings of that -.05 as you were seeing something is out of wack.

FieroMX3 Are the downriggers electric or manual? Do you have a plastic snap between the ball and the cable? Do you get the same reading with touching the neg (black) to the neg side of the battery and the red (pos) to the cable? Are all the electronics / power / motor off when your doing it? You may want to try these things as they could cause electrical leakage. I had electric Mags go on me and boy did I learn a lesson.

I got the Elite 5 with the navigation and loved it with out the DSI. Then came the Elite 7, damn, why couldnt I of waited, anyhoo, its on the way, xtreme navigation had it for 541.00 The 83/200 khz, model without the HDI transducer which is the same as my Elite 5, Cant beat that.

Might want to check for webs that are up inside of nozzle, had to take a bait needle to mine but freed right up.

Yea, I cant seem to get them to fit my taste for dinner, guess ill keep staying with the perch......

Thats a great run down of how it works Bigfoot, Thanks for that information. I can understand the diffculty to affect any change as i have heard of that recently as well. Hopefully a few meetings this week with some councilman from Geneva may provide an arguement that its time for some change. One thing that should be accpeted is that it can always be better. And for what its worth, the daily raffles, one of the imporatnt things is letting people know who won? and the catch and release theory should be practiced as much as possible. If for what ever reason your thinking the lake trout population needs to be decimated because you think theres too many? thats a whole other argument that I really would rather not get into. Anyway, Im looking foward to next years derby.

I'll have to get the skinny on who's volunteers and who isn't. The DEC that supports it along with some of the other folks for food stands and maybe some who do help out at the weigh ins are indeed volunteer, but the leaders of this event are definitely paid. Sad to see a first time derby placer that wanted to see her name up on the leader board couldn't because they wouldn't update the board the whole day. I also can't imagine the number of fish that could of been thrown back if people would of known prior to coming in that you needed 10lb plus to place the last day but instead brought in 9 lbers thinking they could get on the board. Maybe it's to simple. My final frustration is the daily drawings. No numbers provided on who were the winners. Was told they have them and that checks would be mailed to the winners. Mmmm. Now that doesn't seem right in Denmark.......... It's a long standing derby that means a lot to a whole bunch of people out there. I would hate to see it dwindle away. Having 2300 entrants back in the day compared to 1300. Next year is the 50th year, hope they can see the importance of it.

Nice story Nick, congrats on your winnings and staying tough through the rough water this past weekend.

FLX, I feel your pain, things weren't planned very well, SLAB, sorry but the things I've seen over the past few years tells me it's time for change. When you can walk up to see the leader board on the second day in with nothing on it but the leader, and oh yea 4 people working, I believe they get paid, standing there drinking coffee doing nothing, telling you to get the information on line??? Oh I forgot, the one guy first asked what is it your looking for?? I said I would like to know if anyone I know has placed, were still pulling the information together...... On day 2? This was the geneva location.

Go with the Manley, accurate, looks good, dependable, worth the money.

It always nice to hit the mark, being down in the south end and all, hey, where the heck did all the mountains go......lol Sk8man, doesnt seem to be off limits as of yet.........

Hey that's good to hear.

That looks like east side near melons cove / pump house in I'd say 70-90 feet from the pic. Am I close?

Is this tournament still alive? I just realized its last years posts on this????

Thank MCF, I was able to get some paint on line but its not as dark as I think it should be but wont know until I finally decide if Im going to do it. The decals have been the pain. Cant seem to find the '93 series for the 115hp anywhere on line. Ill have to get a shop to reprint them. I was just hoping someone might have some leads....