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Use a lowrsnce hds7 when I was jigging could see the drop and retrieve and fish following it up on the live portion have no problem detecting Lakers laying on bottom... guide on Cayuga that jigs almost exclusively uses same unit

Did I miss something or did you just get advice that was completely opposite of each other?? aint fishin grand?...lol

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Actually.........there are some errors in the posts above......so here are some clarifications.......... 1.) If you are operating a boat, as a captain a six pack license or as it is called OUPV, Operator of an Uninspected Passenger Vessel is required in all Coast Guard Patrolled Waters of which the Great Lakes and larger finger lakes are such. This allows you your crew plus six paying passengers for fishing, charter or whatever you want to do. 2.) if you are hired to come on board a personal craft to help someone fish, a six pack license is not required, that would fall under the fishing guide licensing for New York State. 3.) If you are hired by a captain to work on their boat, he is doing so under his six pack license, and no license is required of you. You are part of the crew and crew members on six pack charters are not required to be licensed in any way. I would know because I researched this extensively, and I hold both the New York Fishing Guide License and the Six Pack OUPV Coast Guard Captains license. In order to obtain a fishing guides license, it is not a complicated test but you need a bunch of knowledge of guiding, the laws etc and a simple search on the internet under the New York Guiding license program will give you the sum total of what you need to know....the test is proctored and done in sections you have to pass general, plus fishing, plus boating.....it is not complicated nor hard in my opinion. The coast guard OUPV captains license is a long process that at best can be done in about 5 months, if you have the required documented experience hours, most people pay for a course, then you pass a proctored test, drug screen, background check through homeland, obtain a TWIC card, etc etc etc.....with the experience, buying a course, and moving quickly I did it in about 4 months at a cost of about 1K by the time you pay all the fees, and pay for a course (all online my choice).....Definitely learned a bunch in that process some of it useless for what I'm doing but most not.....There is also different classes of the license with the highest as Near Shore, meaning out to 100 miles off shore and all inland waters....but this is issued and defined based on your experience. I strongly recommend the Mariners Learning System their program was relatively easy to use and I passed my testing with high scores the first time. Hope that helps

by the way......stick with bright florescent planer board line ......some idiot almost ran over my boards splitting between my boards and the boat at high speed......was not happy..waiving arms blowing the horn broke off with about 30 yards to spare.....adding flags to the big boards this year for more visibility, they are already atomic yellow and pretty damn big....but ......

I did get the dipsy wire from them.....but I thought I saw stainless, I went back and looked it is actually nickel trolling line from Blood Run....same function as a copper line, but silver ? Is that what you are looking for?

Also I picked up my steel line from FishUSA.....they are continuously having sales this time of year.

I use just plain florescent planer board line I think it is like 150 pound test.....I bought a spool of orange last season it is just sitting in the boat and you are welcome to it.....I bought two rail mounted reels and they came with line on them when I decided to get serious about this......and I owe ya....so its yours if you pm me your address I'll ship it to you. Might take me a couple weeks to get into the boat and dig it out....I'll never use it.

hes right but since you asked, I installed some last year...purchased from Bass Pro Shops online converted the old courtesy lights. Installation took maybe 15 to 20 minutes a side. Simple two wire lights.....They come with installation tape but it is crap compared to the 3M molding tape you can pick up at any automotive supply, that stuff is water proof and sticks where you put it. Just clean the surface real well. I picked Blue because I thought the blue would reflect well at night and provide more reflective light that was easier on the eyes than white. Everyone that comes by the dock when we are hanging on the boat at night with the lighting on comments on how cool it looks. I start all my fishing charters in the morning in the dark so the lights set a cool mood. Highly recommend the upgrade and depending on how much you have to get length wise....I did our 29 footer for about 45 bucks if I remember right. Good luck

Everyone keeps asking what has changed. Multiple generations of failed marriages, disintegration of the family unit, poor parenting. When you look at the vast majority of these killers they come from broken fatherless homes, they are outcasts from normal relations. When you arent sharing time with your children at a dinner table and raising them they will fill their heads with the crap that spews forth from the internet. The concept of making the guns illegal is just more people not wanting to adress the harder problem and the real core. Someone can always find a way to kill ...bombs, planes, cars, guns you cant outlaw all of it. Its not pc to tell a feminist that she isnt capable of raisng a boy on her own, it isnt pc to tell men to stop getting women pregnant and failing to care for the child that is created. Be a family, put the value of raising your children above the value of getting more stuff. If your going to have children someone needs to stay home and raise them. Homeschooling is the way to go, resources are better than ever, while our schools are descending into liberal pc hell. Our society crumbles and the best way to stop it is to hold eachother accountable.... my 2 cents...

Thank you for that ill call them tomorrow

I need to find a replacement window for the 2000 pursuit denali 2860, it was a wing window with a screw arm that let air in but could be fully closed, tried going directly to Pursuit, but of course the company that made the windows for them then went out of business...... anyone have any suggestions?? besides contacting a local auto glass company and having them custom cut a pane and glue it in

Guys I’m a certified diver... years of experience time at depth of 150 feet on standard air is 4-5 minutes hardly enough time to find a needle in a haystack. Depending on bottom it could be buried in silt. Just buy a replacement and move on... not gonna happen Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I use Garmin in the plane normally a Garmin loyalist but....I use the Lowrance HDS7 in the boat....I have the Navionics chip in it for the contouring as fishnut and it is expandable to add radar and full engine readouts if you wish. It required no external antennae but Im running a pursuit denali 2860 with canvas top. Never misses a beat, never loses a signal, and it does not conflict with my fish hawk transponder mounted on the opposite side of the transom. At high speeds you lose the bottom but that is likely with anything...clarity is great detail is good.. lots of options........ my 2.5 cents.

Unfortunately all the laws, and navigation rules, are no match for stupidity, carelessness, and drunkenness.......