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Title: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 18, 2018, 05:05:07 PM
I didn't take any fishing poles with me. I just wanted to set up the sonar and finish the transducer mount on the water so I knew where the water lines were. I just drifted around and looked at the bottom of the river with the down imaging. I'm really going to like this thing.


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Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 18, 2018, 05:52:29 PM
Wthhhhhhhh.....thats sweeeeetttttttt
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Hawks Feather on March 18, 2018, 06:11:14 PM
I am not sure that you will be able to use that when you start fishing gators, but you could put a few small ones in the back.

Jerry
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 18, 2018, 08:40:12 PM
Well...I only got one hook anyway Jerry. Remember? :laf:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Hawks Feather on March 18, 2018, 10:23:02 PM
Quote from: FinsnFur on March 18, 2018, 08:40:12 PM
Well...I only got one hook anyway Jerry. Remember? :laf:

And I have one too.  Maybe I could send it up and you could send me some alligator.  You can Choot Im.

Jerry
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 18, 2018, 10:27:54 PM
Quote from: Hawks Feather on March 18, 2018, 10:23:02 PM
Quote from: FinsnFur on March 18, 2018, 08:40:12 PM
Well...I only got one hook anyway Jerry. Remember? :laf:

And I have one too.  Maybe I could send it up and you could send me some alligator.  You can Choot Im.

Jerry
LoL
Choot em

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Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 19, 2018, 01:07:32 AM
 That hummingbird set up looks pretty amazing.
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: pitw on March 19, 2018, 08:36:00 AM
Looks like you are all set to go try for Tuna now. :yoyo:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 19, 2018, 10:41:45 AM
I think hes getting a kickback on those FEMA houses $$$$$$... :innocentwhistle:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Hawks Feather on March 19, 2018, 02:40:00 PM
Quote from: nastygunz on March 19, 2018, 10:41:45 AM
I think hes getting a kickback on those FEMA houses $$$$$$... :innocentwhistle:

Or at least getting paid to help build them.

Jerry
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 19, 2018, 09:31:54 PM
The hummingbird is gonna be awesome. That down imaging shows images of the bottom and anything down there. I love it so far. I should have takin some pics of the brush and logs it shows. Very cool.

I actually never made a nickel extra on those FEMA houses. But then again I dont work on the line. Some of the line guys did roll some nice dough though. :eyebrow: :innocentwhistle: :eyebrownod:

I'm definitely living much cheaper then I was as the last daughter just moved back out a couple months ago, for the second time. Remember the ex wifes car accident back in 2013 which put her in a coma and then a very bad place, pulled and sent the kids all back here from college.
They got back on their feet, moved out, got jobs and started their lives again. Which in turn majorly lowered the household expenses. :laf: Heck the only thing I'm feeding now is myself and the bird feeders.\
So yah!...with the hours we are working (thank you Trump) I finally got my house paid for, bought a new truck, and now a hummingbird :biggrin:
I am seriously in a place right now in my life that I honestly never thought I'd see. :thumb2:



Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 19, 2018, 10:01:08 PM
All kidding aside thats great to hear and i hope you slam the fish in that high tech bass battleship! I could see going out and not even fishing, just looking at the bottom on the hummingbird would be mighty interesting.
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: coyote101 on March 20, 2018, 07:23:11 AM
Quote from: FinsnFur on March 19, 2018, 09:31:54 PM
So yah!...with the hours we are working (thank you Trump) I finally got my house paid for, bought a new truck, and now a hummingbird :biggrin:
I am seriously in a place right now in my life that I honestly never thought I'd see. :thumb2:

That's good to hear Jim, I'm happy for you.  :yoyo: I bet you miss that grandbaby though.  ;yes;

Pat
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 20, 2018, 07:11:18 PM
You nailed it Pat, I miss her tremendously. She video chats Grandpa once in awhile and it sure makes my day.

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Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 20, 2018, 07:43:31 PM
I think you need to officially christen that vessel with a can of old milwaukee across the bow :yoyo:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 20, 2018, 10:15:39 PM
LMAO! :laf: nastygunz drinks nasty beer
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 21, 2018, 03:24:04 AM
 Well you don't want to waste the fancy stuff like pabst blue ribbon!  :yoyo:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Hawks Feather on March 21, 2018, 01:32:56 PM
Quote from: FinsnFur on March 19, 2018, 09:31:54 PM
I should have takin some pics of the brush and logs it shows.

Did you see any of your snagged lures down there in the brush and logs?  Oh, sorry.  I forgot that snagged lures don't happen to you.  Did you see anyone else's snagged lures?

Jerry
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 21, 2018, 06:04:23 PM
When the snags hear Jim champion is on the water they all head for the other side of the river  and the bass swarm his lures because they know he's going to catch them all eventually anyways and they just want to get it over with.
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Hawks Feather on March 21, 2018, 07:12:28 PM
Quote from: nastygunz on March 21, 2018, 06:04:23 PM
When the snags hear Jim champion is on the water they all head for the other side of the river  and the bass swarm his lures because they know he's going to catch them all eventually anyways and they just want to get it over with.

Truer words have seldom been spoken.

Jerry
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 21, 2018, 09:41:59 PM
no...but I like that idea :eyebrownod:
I doubt I'd see a snagged lure but you DO have my curiosity peaked. :confused:
It's still too cold here to do what I want to do, but I may take it back out this weekend and play with the down imaging. It doesnt work real good out in the shop  :innocentwhistle: :laf:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: HaMeR on March 22, 2018, 06:55:57 AM
Throw some rocks in the bucket. It'll work better that way right??  :laf: :laf:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Dave on March 22, 2018, 11:53:15 AM
Wow that looks like a nice set up.
Would like to see some pics of the images from the Hummingbird.  I have a Garmin Striker 4 and get frustrated with it (need to youtube it to understand it better, I guess). Anyway, that Hummingbird looks way cooler than the Garmin  :sad:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 23, 2018, 09:54:05 PM
Were suppose to get smacked with another snowstorm tomorrow so Im sure I wont be wetting her this weekend. :innocentwhistle:
But I do wanna get some pics off it.
I hear ya Dave on learning to use them. I cycled through the menu over a dozen times adjusting different settings out on the water, only to get frustrated and screw up the whole view. I'd have to hit the "restore all default settings" and start over. lol :madd:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 23, 2018, 10:03:32 PM
Life should have a  "restore all default settings"  :biggrin: :alscalls:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 25, 2018, 08:28:42 AM
LOL! Wouldnt that be grand
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Okanagan on March 25, 2018, 10:25:27 AM
Whew!  A restore default setting for life.  I like that!  I suspect that most people by age 30 yearn for such a button to push.  I needed that button by the time I was 6! 

Two levels of meaning in your brief comment, Nasty, one of them deeply profound.  Closest there is to a "restore default" for humans is the grace of God.  It can remove guilt and give us a fresh clean slate for writing our life story but all too sadly does not remove the consequences of my actions on humans, be it myself or others.

Spring snow this morning down low on the mountains I can see out my kitchen window so I must quit philosophizing and sermonizing and go see if I can find a track of something to chase this morning.   Hope the Tractor Grease Café is open on my way home.



Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 25, 2018, 01:37:53 PM
Amen!  It's obvious to me that your a man who enjoys the bounties of this great earth!  I would go to the tractor Grease Café every day just because of the name.  :yoyo:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Okanagan on March 25, 2018, 11:03:25 PM
Why, thank you, nasty!  I posted an update about the Tractor Grease Café on the thread of that name.

Snow melted fast, all gone in the lower valley before I got out there, though it would drizzle misty rain now and then and kept adding fresh snow to the peaks above.  I should have been there before daylight to check tracks by headlight.  It snowed just before dark last night, so animals had all night to make tracks, but I stayed home till good light to see if the snow stuck and then azzled around on my way out there.  I started to set up to call in a huge half-bowl mountainside basin but there were too many dirt bikes, four wheelers and target plinkers so I decided that as a retiree I would come back on a week day when the place will be deserted.

We now return this program to the unfolding story of the Yak Man from Wisconsin... :congrats:




Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: nastygunz on March 26, 2018, 01:03:08 AM
You mean the Yak Man from Wisconsin isnt an urban....suburban....legend?!.... :innocentwhistle:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: FinsnFur on March 26, 2018, 09:54:51 PM
Whoa whoa whoa...he thinks he stole the thread and I was just getting into this cafe story...please continue.  :wink:
Title: Re: First test run with the new yak.
Post by: Todd Rahm on March 26, 2018, 10:08:48 PM
Sweet ride!!! Looking forward to seeing fish on that Helix.  :biggrin: