Quick Saturday Report

[packersooner]

Fished out of RB targeting crappie. Manged nine keepers with several shorts on deep brush piles (35-40 fow). Hot pink jigs seemed to be the ticket. My fishing partner caught a nice bonus walleye that went just under 23". Water temps started off around 42-43 degrees and warmed up into the mid 40s by the end of the day.

On a side note, just mounted an xi5 and had it out for the first time. The spot lock was amazing. Held on the brush piles with ease when it got breezy around mid-afternoon. Now I have to figure out the interference issues between it and the Humminbirds.

Jason

[inshore]

don't know if this is the problem but if you have two sonars on at  the same time it can cause interference on both. hope it's this simple.

[dan hufferd]

You are the man ! I could not buy a bite. I have the xi5 80 I love it ! 

What time of the day were you fishing ?

[packersooner]

Inshore...yeah I've always had interference between the front and back units when I get into 30 fow or deeper. Sporadic thin vertical lines. This is far worse though. When the trolling motor is on, the front unit now has a lot of vertical lines. The side imaging on the back unit is completely useless. It sounds like it may be the variable speed unit in the trolling motor.

Dan...also went with the 80 thrust. Glad to hear you are a fan! We got on the water a little before 8 and fished until around 6. Most of the fish came in the morning and early afternoon. They were down in the brush for the most part. Had to put the jigs right on top of it (or in it) to get hit. Definitely donated a good handful of jigs.

[dan hufferd]

Thanks, it has been a humbling couple of months for me.

I have Lowrance depthfinders, I don't get any interference, but I will get a little snow on the screen when the live well pump cycles, and I see a huge vertical line when use the trim before take off.

 

[panfisher]

Ground battery's

[DADAKOTA]

Explain how to ground batteries

[dan hufferd]

11 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Explain how to ground batteries

On mine the fuse box is grounded to the boat (aluminum) Don't know what you would do on a fiberglass boat??

[DADAKOTA]

Mine is aluminum.  My electrical panel does not have a wire to the boat.  

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Mine Bird did the exact same thing when i first got my Xi5. The power wire to my fish finder was just laying over the trolling motor power wires. i separated them and it worked perfect