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    Default Looking for a Spike color c lector [color selector]


    I'm looking to purchase a Spike brand color c lector [their spelling not mine]. I've checked online and can't seem to find anyone who has one in stock....everyone is out of them, Any ideas where I can find one?
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    I saw those on Ebay, but I'm looking for a new digital one. The one I'm looking for is made by Spike.
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    Cray ... those are all the old Lake Systems Color-C-lector units. Spindle is looking for the Spike-it version that looks like this:



    Personally, I don't hold out much hope of finding one at any commercial outlet, seeing as how even the Spike-it website says it's "temporarily out of stock" And even if it was "in stock" .... at $130 it's not worth half that much (IMHO).

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    Sometimes there are some on ebay
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    I remember the analog ones from magazines growing up. I believe at the time they coated $30. Awful lot of money to a kid back in the 80's
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    Quote Originally Posted by DockShootinJack View Post
    I remember the analog ones from magazines growing up. I believe at the time they coated $30. Awful lot of money to a kid back in the 80's
    Yeah, and this 20something "kid" bought the Lake Systems Color-C-lector when it first came out, used it a few times & realized it kept telling me the same colors at the same lakes I was fishing, that I was already using.
    Sold it and bought the Combo-C-lector (temp & pH added) because the pH & water temps were being highly touted by the TV anglers. Maybe used it a little more than what I did with the Color only unit, but eventually stopped using it because it seemed to be taking away a lot of time spent actually "fishing". Still have it, chucked away with other gadgets & gizmos that were "the thing to have" in their day. Nowadays I let the fish tell me what color they want, my depth finder tells me surface temps, online charts tell me the temps at depth (+oxygen level), and I could care less about the pH (but if I did care, I also have a pH Meter in the gadgets/gizmos storage area, or I could still use the old Combo-C-lector).

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    State of the art in it's time.
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    Thanks for all the info. I ordered and old style one off Ebay for $9.00. I want to know what colors are more visible to the fish in deeper water. Just another gadget to play with.
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    Have you watched this video on colors and what washes out first at what depth? There is a part 2 to it also.

    Yes, I was talking to myself; sometimes even I have to ask for expert advice.

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