Anyone using a rod mounted Fish finder?
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:39 pm
I came across this today:
A free forum for the discussion of fishing the Inland Northwest.
http://digitalanglers.com/forum/
Sweet, what kind of batteries does it take? If you get the hankerin to look for it one day, I am game to meet up. Gringo, do you recall ever seeing any fish on the screen?Gringo Pescador wrote:I had one of those on my kick boat for a long time. I just tethered the float to the back of the boat and held the reciever in my hand. It worked well for depth, never used it for finding fish. The unit quit working after a couple years. but the time I got a replacement floater, the batteries in the reciever went dead. I have a floating unit in the box, in the garage somewhere I think if you want it..
I know what you mean. Every time I get the fly rod out, in combination with the float tube. The wind kicks up. Then, between the wind, and line piled up on the casting apron, and loops of line, like spaghetti noodle tangle. Dangling over and under the apron, too much stuff get's......well, rather frustrating. Then the casting takes place........LOL!Bodofish wrote:Pretty usless for spotting fish. I had one too, used it to get the depth of the little lakes I was fishing from the shore. The screen will have little fishes swim by but I'm sure its more of just someting in the water (if anything), weed or stick or whatever. I used it off my tube too but after a while you just get too much crap hanging and dangling.....
Give me a shout out here or a PM when your garage is cleaned out...LOL!Gringo Pescador wrote:I will go see if I can scroung the stuff up tonight. The floting device is self contained, when the battery dies - you trash it and buy a new one. The reciever takes a button battery (about the size of a quarter). Like Bodo, it would mark stuff, but I never confirmed it was fish and with the screen so small and sunlight against the screen hampering vision, I would just focus on the depth and not try to mark fish when I used it.
Garaged cleaned out???? I'm not sure that would be possible as I'm giving the Pecador an 11 on the scale of 10. I don't think it's possible to get any cleaner. I've seen the pics, don't try and deny it.MotoBoat wrote:Give me a shout out here or a PM when your garage is cleaned out...LOL!Gringo Pescador wrote:I will go see if I can scroung the stuff up tonight. The floting device is self contained, when the battery dies - you trash it and buy a new one. The reciever takes a button battery (about the size of a quarter). Like Bodo, it would mark stuff, but I never confirmed it was fish and with the screen so small and sunlight against the screen hampering vision, I would just focus on the depth and not try to mark fish when I used it.
Are you claiming extreme organizational skills, at the Gringo Garage?Bodofish wrote:Garaged cleaned out???? I'm not sure that would be possible as I'm giving the Pecador an 11 on the scale of 10. I don't think it's possible to get any cleaner. I've seen the pics, don't try and deny it.MotoBoat wrote:Give me a shout out here or a PM when your garage is cleaned out...LOL!Gringo Pescador wrote:I will go see if I can scroung the stuff up tonight. The floting device is self contained, when the battery dies - you trash it and buy a new one. The reciever takes a button battery (about the size of a quarter). Like Bodo, it would mark stuff, but I never confirmed it was fish and with the screen so small and sunlight against the screen hampering vision, I would just focus on the depth and not try to mark fish when I used it.
Bodo's right, I admit it, I have an alter ego who is somewhat anal retentive, it is a constant battle - Fishing gear is on one wall, 20+ rod holder (full), bar hanging off the ceiling above it for waders, rain jackets, vests, life jackets, space under it for boots & stuff, then a set of shelves for tackle boxes, box of neoprene gloves, box of hand warmers, box of power bars, etc.MotoBoat wrote:Are you claiming extreme organizational skills, at the Gringo Garage?Bodofish wrote:Garaged cleaned out???? I'm not sure that would be possible as I'm giving the Pecador an 11 on the scale of 10. I don't think it's possible to get any cleaner. I've seen the pics, don't try and deny it.