Testing Transducers in the Rain and Kaboom!

[Rojo]

The Garmin PS22-TR Panoptix transducers are really low quality. I've had 6 fail since they came out. I still use one on one of the boats so a replacement was installed on the Pole and tested in the Jourdan. Boy when the transducers are new they work fantastic but you will be lucky to get 2 years out of one even babying them as much as I do. Anyway I had a big rain cloud sneak up on me so I tucked into a pocket, below full of submerged trash, put the top up, and got a jig overboard. It wasn't long before the bottom fell out of the sky, my Tin Boat got full of rain water, and me thinking I didn't have to do the test today when a massive thump was felt on the jig. I lifted up to find quite a bit of resistance, thought to myself I hooked a Tabby. Well when it didn't feel like a Tabby I got excited. Almost too excited as down deep in the clear water I kept getting a Bucket Mouth Flash, I thought adrenaline was fixin' to flow. Still even with this pig and #4 570 Eagle Claw hooks I did the swing into the boat.



It's longer than the inside of the cooler. A full 17 inches out of Jourdan River. This one is going on the wall.

[catchNreeleaze]

I own a PS22-TR. They are not the greatest but they most definitely find fish. For dock shooting they are really good. I had mine weld itself to a 7sv last year. Sent pictures to Garmin with their factory installed fuses still intact and Garmin did what Garmin does. 5 days later I had a new pair.

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[SuperDave336]

Woooo, beautiful catch. Congrats! I wish I had kept my big one looking back on it. Thats gonna make one good mount.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

OINK!

[DWILL]

That one makes the others look like babies. Congrats

[TDMartin25]

Man, what an incredible fish....definitely a fish of a lifetime. Did you by any chance weigh it? Congratulations!

[Centurion]

Nice Fish!

[silverroach]

You the man! Nice catch, I have been fishing those waters since 1979. I can tell you way up the river I have only caught a handful that size over all these years. Again Nice. Take pictures of it when you get it mounted as that water should make a beautiful fish mount.


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[Rojo]

Man, what an incredible fish....definitely a fish of a lifetime. Did you by any chance weigh it? Congratulations!

I didn't as it didn't feel like 2+ pounds. I'm thinking 1.80-1.90 pounds. I've caught 3 total this year 17 inches long and the others were skinnier than this fish and the best weighed in on a digital baking scale 1.803 pounds. This one is heavier but it came out of a river instead of a impoundment where I was catching the other big fish over the summer. River fish just don't come this size. All the others got the Ketchn Potato Chip treatment and ate.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

No matter whether you catch them in a lake or river a 17" is a true slab. That one is worthy for the wall.