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Be Careful. Wind HOWLING here today, 4 miles from lake. Really don't want to hear about you being cold, wet, & lifeless!

Ha! Stable winds on Lake Erie! Not much lately!

John, Thanks for posting that information. I've been curious about how effective this auto-mapping software really is. The new sounders are a few generations beyond my Lowrance Gen2 HDS that doesn't have the mapping function. Have wondered about the effectiveness of these systems & whether they ...

Pretty Cool. Seeing the boat movement against a close background from another boat would really show off the speed. Imagining the movement for me is aided by relating the MPH to feet-per-second. 4 MPH is almost 6 FPS. Round off to 6 FPS...then 6 MPH is 9 FPS. Actually it's 8.8, close enough... Visua...

Terrific checklist from John! Often the thoughts for me are related to what other person(s) are coming along, if any. What do they want out of a day on the water? Do they even want to fish? If they want to fish, what would they want to catch? Where do they want to go? What do they want to see? Lake ...

So many toys, so little time...

I wondered whether anyone here would get the parallel connection or would care anyway. When you give it a little thought it becomes clear that all animals use the terrain in one way or another to guide their movements. What is remarkable is that Buck Perry saw this also applied to fish because for a...

On the back of the Little Green Book the lake is shown without the water to indicate the terrain the fish see. Similarly the terrain that we & other animals see is the above water terrain without regards to the fluid it is immersed in, the air. Of course it is more difficult for us to see the un...