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I'm curious what looks like what for you guys. Today I snapped a pic of some king salmon I drove over.. The pic is a bit fuzzy as I didn't focus well due to the waves.. I'm addicted to my fish finder and spend many long days staring at it. I'll post some more pics asap..

I was thinking of getting a LMS-525C for my little freshwater boat. The cost is $699. It was recommended by a friend, but it is much more that I wanted to spend. I have never used a Lowrance before...thoughts?

Oh yeah, kingsalmon on the video, makes my corpusles begin to vibrate and the palms of my frittatas break out in a cold sweat . . . god I like to catch those fish. Is that water 40.7°? Dang, that is chilly, I think we are at about 47° down here in the tropics of Seattle right now.

I like Lowrance. I use a big Furuno Nav Net system on my charter boat, but my little Lowrance shows just as much. I can see salmon easier on the Lowrance than on the Furuno.

Yeah it's still 40.7. I fish alone, so I'm super careful to not fall out of the boat when putting line in the downrigger releases.

I'm ready to start slamming kings. I have calm weather Wed-Thurs and I'll be hitting it hard. Can't believe it will be April soon.

Meant to add..

I was trolling with 100ft of cable out when I ran over those fish.. But the wind and the tide had my flasher at about 60ft.. I was praying that one of them would come up to hit my bait, but they didn't. It was blowing hard yesterday. I tried to turn around on those fish, but it just didn't work out.

I remember hearing some skippers saying that salmon don't meter very well. Something about a lack of an air bladder which would return a stronger signal. Well, that's what I've heard anyways.

Here's a few pics from last summer at Pyramid Lake, CA., North of Los Angeles off I-5 at the South end of the Grapevine.


School of stripers, these have air bladders


It was pretty much wide open on cut sardines, anchovies and nightcrawlers
78 F. surface temp.
Around here, a lot of our lakes have a thermocline down around 50 ft. or so, which trout can survive in during the summer months. That's if they don't become Striper or LMB food.


My better half fighting one


2-6 lbs. Not real big, but fun on 4 and 6 lb. line

Furuno 1800 combo GPS and fishfinder, 500 watt, single 200 khz thru hull transducer

Scott

Kelper wrote:I like Lowrance. I use a big Furuno Nav Net system on my charter boat, but my little Lowrance shows just as much. I can see salmon easier on the Lowrance than on the Furuno.

Thanks Kelper.
I just bought the Lowrance 525 unit for my freshwater boat and it is all about Lake Trout and Salmon in NW NY where the boat lives. I am going to fish with it the first week of May...I will hopefully get some pics to post of screen readings.
Dave

Scott, thanks for the pics! I was sure that I wasn't the only one obsessed with a fishfinder!

I've had people tell me that you can't read salmon on a sounder. I always smile. It took me 4 years of fishing up here to get it figured out, but when I did, life was made a whole lot easier.

Dave,

I think you'll be really happy with your purchase.

Here is my old Sitex 206 when i was bass fishing at the Montauk Lighthouse, you can see the great bottom structure, bait and stripers. Nighttime.




Here is the bottom in 700ft while trolling, tile fish on the bottom.


Here is my 1000-watt simrad as I came out of the canyon and had not ajudted to the shollow water as I was running at 25-knots to some breaking fish. you can see the double echo.

Why does a fish signal return as an arch?

Cuz it's fat in the middle and skinny on each end

Its actually because the fish's blatter reflects the transducer signal the best while the rest of the body reflects less as the signal passes over and below the fish thus making an arched signal. Mty

OK, Marty nailed it . :)

Jigging on stellwagon the other day we could actually see our jigs dropping on the FF. Pretty cool, never seen that, but now that my ducer is dialed in it's like a new world :D

Great pics guys.

Marty how far is the "Dip" for you?

We always use the depthfinder to see oiur jigs when we are tuna jigging to know what is the best depth.

The tails is 68nm the dip is 73-77 miles the 100 sqaure is 90-95nm, hudson west tip is 120 and east is 99-105, west atlantis is 100,. And e.atlantis 110,. And vetches 125-130nm and hydro is 143-146nm. Once the bite starts in late july and a nice weather window comes, follow me out and we work it over together for a day and night trip. To costly just to do a day trip anymore. Mty

Marty , it would be cool if we could drag my Pacific 2325 out with your boat we could fish a week out there no problem.

Just a thought / Dream :D

Tred did it in a 19 Mako didn't he?

Don't know if my kahoona's are that big yet :D

Yes Tred did go in a 19' mako and is lucky to be alive. That's why many expolrers lost their lives. But then some were to stupid but brave and they made great jorneys to far away places. Tred was one of those guys. But he takes safety very seriously now since those young and foolish days.

Les, staying a week offshore isn't necessary. A two to three day trip will fill the trip quota. It is still the daily limit per trip not for the amount of days at sea. That's why we try to fill it asap and then sport fish and release the rest till time to go home. Mty

Just a dream Marty and my other one is to drag my boat up to Alaska [ In summer ] and wear it out.

If you wear out a Pacific or any other good alloy boat from fishing, you'll die a happy man.

Last Friday at Block Island RI

Here is some good bottom structure photos and a short video from our MONSTER STRIPER NIGHT which you will see more of in the coming days from Cody.
Go to this link***Short clip>>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3247&hl=en

Ironwoodtuna wrote:Its actually because the fish's blatter reflects the transducer signal the best while the rest of the body reflects less as the signal passes over and below the fish thus making an arched signal. Mty

I was told by the lorance reps that it is because as the fish moves across your cone it you get less bounce-backs on the edges of your cone and it is farther away from your transducer when it is in the center of the cone you get the best bounce-back and it is closest to your transducer. Also if a fish stays in the same place in relation to your transducer it would show up ad a solid line.