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got the H20 grayscale for 129$ at a local store, cheapest I found online was 149$! A little laggy with the Hotmaps card but does what I need it to on the Ice!:D Nice to be able to go to a lake I've...

real helpful. :rolleyes: I already HAVE a 100$ hotmaps card that I use in my Humminbird 580 in the summer and I would like to use it in the winter also.

anyone using either of these for Ice fishing. I was wondering how well the displays work in the cold? Is there and other handhelds out there at accept Navionics Hotmaps SD cards? I'm looking for a...

Possibly a spawing bluegill? I know last month on Lake Vermilion, off my grandparents dock, we were catching all kinds of Gill's that were very bold colors ranging from orange to bluew to purple like...

My personal experiance is that the E-tec is becoming a great engine, they are past most of the "teething" problems they had. They are not quieter than most 4 strokes though they are pretty close and...

fireline #4 for me on ALL my crappie rods. I due notice it tends to wrap the tip easier than mono on a bad cast but the FEEL provided by the line on a good rod is WELL worth the few extra tangles.

I have a 580 and I love it and its mounted on my Fishing boat. I just purchased a 20ft pontoon boat since we now have a very active toddler and I'm looking for a complete mounting setup so I can use...

I have the Navionics "Hotmaps" for my region and love it, I got the previous years version for half price and it covers any decent size lake that I fish (pretty much anything with public landing that...

if your worried about bugs then rig up a kerosene lantern and a pole to hold it up in the air about 10 feet. Give you plenty of light to see what your doing and cooks the skeeters too!

I've got a 7" Mora and its treated me well for the past few years. I don't break out the 10" gas auger until the ice is over 1' thick. Less that 1 minute to drill a hole in 1' of ice with the Mora....

Lakes improved GREATLY in the past week. I put my house out yesterday on ~9" of ice. No crappies but I managed to pull a 3# walleye and 3# Largemouth out last night. :D

I've got the GPS version 580 and have had no issues. Your transducer should be sticking down about 1/4" below the level of the boat and have a slight angle twards the front of the boat (the back of...

biggest crappie I ever caught was on a planner board trolling for Northern Pike. It hit the Large spinner bait I was using and went 2.25 Lbs. This was before I got hooked on Crappie fishing and I've...

Wind pushes my 16' Mr.Pike around a bit but not as bad as my 12' Jon! Autopilot takes care of the wind!

Depends on the engine type.
Old 2 Smoke with oil injection
-Run 50:1 gas in the tank for the first 10 hours
-troll around for the first 10 minutes or so, then under 3000rpm for the next 1/2 hour...

That nice 12+ inches of snow we got lastweek BEFORE the deep freeze really messed up lakes on the Iron Range. I drilled a bunch of test holes on my favorite lake and had anywhere from 7" to 2". I'm...

Grandpa just got an FL-20 so he is giving me his "old" FL-18 to go along side my fl-8

A basic Vexliar FL-8 works wonders, more expensive models add a few things that are not really needed for crappie fishing like extended Depth and Bottom Zoom features (bottom zoom is nice but not a...

Waypoints (to make those rock piles you wreck a prop on so you don't loose another one in the same spot :D )

Speed (my humminbird 580 has a HUGE mph and Depth display screen for running at speed)...

On the Iboats forums there is a guy who tested a bunch of stainless on his aluminum fishing boat and the Stiletto came out near the top, Turbo1 being the best (same company that makes stiletto)....

don't worry too much about the placement of the GPS "hockey puck" when I first got my 580 in the mail (same gps puck) I hooked it up to my Vexilar battery in the house to play with the fish finder...

between the two I would go Etec. But based on prices I would look for a NEW leftover Johnson 115hp 4stroke too save a few grand and enjoy solid, reliable, proven performance (its a rebadged Suzuki)....

29mph isn't too bad for that setup, I ran 29mph GPS with a Johnson 55 crank hp (re rated to 48 prop hp after 87') on my 16' Lund Pike which is a semi-vee alumimum. My boat was around 1200# with the...

Biggest Crappie I ever caught was on a big spinner bait while trolling @ 3mph for big northern pike. I thought I had a big bunch of weeds stuck it while I pulled it in and when I got it up to the...

My Crappie box contains nothing but Beetle spins, Berkley Micro Nymph, and tubes. I just found the magic of the Micro Nymph a few weeks back and if you fish in a lake with crawdad/crayfish/mudbugs...

The pressure on the sidewall is listed as a MAXIMUM, not what you are suppose to air them up to. Running too much pressure will cause the center tread to wear faster and more importantly INCREASE...

Never fished it but there is a nice little lake called "Myrtle lake" about 10 miles east of Orr with nice size crappie! not far from my Aunts place in Buyck, the own the local bar/resturant/gas...

Don't forget the 580, same features as the 565 PLUS a pretty dang good GPS unit and you can watch both the 20* and 60* beams seperately.

Got my 580 last week and its a darn nice unit for 329$ Awesome resolution (640 vertical) and easy to use GPS built it.

This is a good thing. We have a hot shot rookie officer in my area and he actually FINED a person that sitting in there Ford Escape watch there tipups because there vehical was considered a shelter...