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Nice setup!  I’m pretty happy I stopped resisting, but you all just keep on.  Using it in tandem with 2D and SI  for just a little while fills the gaps and gives you insight you’ve not had into what your gear is showing you.

Mike

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Just got to thinking... ~40 years ago I'd tape the transducer from my little green box to a broomstick and look all around with it. It required more interpretation, and if you glanced away you might miss something, but FFS nonetheless.

Vintage Lowrance Lo-K-Tor fish finder | Bloodydecks

I can't dance like I used to.

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22 minutes ago, bfishn said:

Just got to thinking... ~40 years ago I'd tape the transducer from my little green box to a broomstick and look all around with it. It required more interpretation, and if you glanced away you might miss something, but FFS nonetheless.

Vintage Lowrance Lo-K-Tor fish finder | Bloodydecks

I wish you could have marketed that idea. You’d have retired years ago and could show me how to properly fish the Arkansas River

Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish

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46 minutes ago, Ham said:

I wish you could have marketed that idea. You’d have retired years ago and could show me how to properly fish the Arkansas River

Yeah, me too! I had a better one though, I had the depth track & shore track features of the Pinpoint System basically figured out 3 years before it showed up. 😪 Then I spent 3500 @ dealers cost buying one. Still have it BTW. PFA.

I did electronics school for a couple years, then got an electronics performance inspector job at Bendix in KC. Ran a lot of naval sonar components thru the wringer, even their older tube rigs were amazing. Trust me, the Navy had sonar figured out pre-transistor. Every improvement since has been in the filtering/interpretation spectrum, now with modeling software painting a picture of the return. The same information was available to that old Green Box, but your brain was the only processor.

Added; no matter how cool consumer sonar gets, the USN has way cooler.

I can't dance like I used to.

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8 hours ago, bfishn said:

Added; no matter how cool consumer sonar gets, the USN has way cooler.

Yeah, but you can’t fish that well off the top of a submarine 

Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish

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22 minutes ago, Ham said:

Yeah, but you can’t fish that well off the top of a submarine 

Not to mention mounting the transducer...

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I can't dance like I used to.

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