MrGiggles

Times change. Could've ordered it on your phone in minutes and had them bring it to your car when you got there.

They have some pictures here. https://www.russellmarineproducts.com/product-p/7103041-hum.htm My buddy has had it rigged on a pole and on his Ultrex. He didn't like the pole because it was too much fiddling, but keeping the TM aimed is a fight too. Just depends on how you like to fish. I think I would like it best on a pole that is attached to the TM, so they stow and deploy together, but the transducer is aimed independently.

8 pounds? Surely that can't be right. The Mega live transducer looks about the same size as Garmin's.

My 93SV is on the console, so I just have a pole rigged up that I can drop over the side of the boat and fish from the helm. Not the best, but I'm waiting for another deal on a 93SV so I can mount it up front. I have a Terrova, so I either just spot lock, or drive it with the remote. Generally I will pull up to a spot, drop the trolling motor and LIvescope, then start picking it apart. If I'm not seeing fish in the vicinity then I will start moving around, checking the whole area. If I was better at reading and setting up SI, I would scan it with that first, drop a waypoint on areas of interest, and come back to them with LS, but I'm not that good with it. I jigged up several walleyes out of 45 feet this spring on Stockton, right on the bottom. The only time Livescope won't help you with crappie is in the spring when they're really shallow. I don't know about what Humminbird is coming up with, but the LS transducer is hardly any heavier than the big UHD SI transducers that people have been strapping on trolling motors for years, it's just a little bulkier. I don't see why they weight would be an issue. The bigger problem with that Ulterra is cable management, since the head can turn around and around. My Terrova will destroy a transducer cable in no time.

I will usually park on the tip of a point/hump, or along the sides on the slope. Usually you can see fish sliding up and down the drop off, or just off bottom not far away. I will usually drop my jig to within a few inches of the bottom. Walleyes will usually materialize off of the bottom and act very aggressively, sometimes hitting the jig on the drop. One thing that Livescope really works well at is getting the perspective of where you are along a piece of structure, you can easily see how far down you are in a drop off, where the tip of a point is, etc., where 2D only gives you a snapshot of the sonar cone and needs to be paired with maps to give you any perspective. Say that you are looking for a particular rock pile or a boulder (the spot on the spot) on a point, it is very easy to zero in on with Livescope, where you would otherwise be relying on a waypoint, which is not very accurate, or hovering right over the top of it. Same goes for fishing brushpiles for crappie, use the waypoint to get you close, LS allows you to stay back a ways but still keep your perspective without using market buoys or any of that BS.

I bought Livescope back in March when they still had the rebate going. Since I already had a 93SV capable of running it, it wasn't a huge investment. It is nice for jigging crappie off of brush piles. As for the bigger fish, I do use it for walleyes and accidental bass. Whites too. Usually vertical fishing a soft plastic or crawler. I have had difficulty getting more than 10-15 feet of clear forward view, not sure what the deal is with that. I can't wait to use it this winter, spooning in big schools of shad.

Those are for sure better than the ones with a steel pan.. I had some crafty field mice that got away with the bait several times without setting off the trap. I took a pair of pliers and squished in the tab that holds the rod a little bit, making the trigger really light. Had to be really careful setting them, but if they so much as laid a whisker on it, lights out. Ol' Fievel didn't get away with anymore free meals.

That is crazy. He's got you figured out.

Found out when I was little that black snakes will not pass up chicken eggs.

The thing with snakes, they don't usually hang around somewhere just to enjoy the view. If you find yourself with a snake problem, you actually have a rodent problem.

It's all fun and games until they build a nest under the shroud of your mower, or eat the wiring in your car. I don't have any sympathy for them, plus they bring around snakes.

You can add pretty much anything that significantly outweighs me to my list of "things not to mess with". Aren't any Steve Irwin genes in me, I'll run for the hills.

Every time I hear that, first thing I think is "sumbitch has teeth don't it?" I feel the same way about pits.. The neighbor has a couple, one is loud and all bark, the other is quiet and flighty, that's the one to watch.

$39.99 at Bass Pro. I've seen them at some Walmarts too, but not many. They mostly carry the casting version, I have one of those too and like it just as much.

I'm kind of a cheap-posterior, and am very partial to the Berkley lightning rod 6'6" medium 1 piece. I think they are a wonderful multi-purpose rod, for throwing 1/16 oz jigs for crappie, to 1/8 oz walleye jigs and cranks. They are a little bit too fast in the tip for things much heavier than that though.

I have a Hawke on my muzzleloader. Good scopes.

There is a reason why the automotive industry is the way it is. Flat rate pay creates a financial incentive to cut corners. Get it in and out as quickly as possible. If the book says a certain job pays 4 hours, the tech gets paid for 4 hours, whether it takes him 6 or 2. Slackers get all the gravy jobs, and the good guys are often left overworked and underpaid, since skilled diagnostic work doesn't pay as well. The good ones don't want to deal with the feast or famine BS, leaving behind the druggies, mickey-mousers, and parts swappers that will do anything they can to bill for 10-14 hours of work in an 8 hour day. Then if you're at a dealer, warranty work is terribly under-estimated time wise, same with tire shops and quick lube type places. Last I knew an oil change paid three tenths. It's next to impossible to pull a car in and do a smoking hot LOF in 20 minutes. Of course it's not always that black and white, and there are exceptions to every rule, but it's a good representation of the industry, and gives some insight into why the ratio of good to bad shops is like 1 in 10.

Unless you want to send it into orbit I'm not sure he'll be much help.

I have a good job, and wouldn't have any trouble finding one in my trade. I'm just not so sure that I want to continue down this road. A lot of that is the "grass is greener" sort of stuff. I'm still trying to figure it out, and learning a lot in the process.

KISS. No belts to mess with.

The king of blown head gaskets, easy fix though. Valve adjustments are super important on those or they won't crank. The compression release only bumps the intake valve open a tiny bit, if the valves are too loose it will spin over too slowly. There's been lots of starters and batteries needlessly replaced on those because of it. Ever seen the transmission on those? It's just a friction drive, with a steel brake rotor looking thing and a rubber drive wheel that runs against it. The "shifter" just moves the rubber wheel further or closer from the drive disk, like the needle on a record, works good unless it gets wet. That is unless they started putting a real transaxle in them at some point.

I used to read through MWT a lot. Came to the conclusion that it was a little too much of a cesspool and a circle jerk for me, like it here a lot better.

Steel is an attractive play right now too. Sitting on 159 shares of CLF.

It's been a couple of years, but I have gotten into them by the shallow water buoys on Martin Flats, and those shallow points just to the south of them on the same side. Anything with flash has done well for me, road runner, rooster tail, spoon, etc. I think it's still a little early yet, I've had better luck in the afternoons towards August.

Nothing, but pulling a wakeboard through them is a good way to become indebted to you.