RyanValentino
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That’s around the time reports moved from a Facebook group to this forum, so Yes, I believe that’s about as far back as available.
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If you are already used to Lowrance, switching to Simrad won’t be an issue. I run GO9s on both of my boats and like them. Previously had an older 7” lowrance that I upgraded. The touch screen is pretty intuitive. Upload of waypoints and routes is easy enough. Data cards are on the back which is a PITA if you flush mount on a console. I don’t have much to compare to firsthand sonar imagery wise, but internet makes it seem like humminbird may the gold standard there. Can connect NMEA 2000 devices for engine data etc.
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Lol nice
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One thing I forgot to mention – I had my knot pull out three separate times this weekend. Clearly an issue at the knot with the curls visible. Same fisherman’s/improved clinch knot I’ve been tying since I was 8. Even went back and watched a video on tying that knot – no clue there. Either 10 or 12 pound mono line. Line is probably getting old, but I’m hesitant to blame the line. The painted H&H jig heads do have some paint that flakes off – maybe something with paint coming off of the eye and the knot loosening? I won’t be buying more painted ones, because sometimes the hook eye is filled, and you have to clear it out – just working through my surplus. Thoughts?
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School of 25?! Awesome!! I bet that was exciting!
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Neat that your buddies got to see multiple areas, and glad they had a good time in Dularge!
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This baffles me. Let’s see what others have to say.
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Nice! What’s your thinking on why one of those rigs is better for artificial and the other for live? Was one of those setups catching while the other wasn’t?
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I’m interested to know if the handhelds work well enough also. I have a fixed ICOM on my bay boat. It’s the kind with digital selective calling and integrated GPS so I can press the red button if things go bad. It seems to work fine. I don’t really care to mount one on my flat boat, but from this weekend in Venice, I don’t like only relying on the phone – even with the satellite capability on iphone these days. I like the ‘two is one, one is none’ thinking on this type of thing.
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I use a google sheet too. The ability to filter and do data entry is a driver. A video log wouldn’t help me – that could be hours of footage to extract data from. The one thing I think video (or even just a voice recording) could help with would be to make a quick recording of the report summary if you know you won’t have time to log it immediately – easier than looking at all the historical data and relying on memory. FWIW, here are the columns I keep in the sheet: date, area, time of day (morning, mid, evening), tide range (low, med, high), tidal movement (rising or falling), air temp, weather, wind direction, wind speed range, water temp, water level, river level, salinity, primary species caught, quantity caught, secondary species caught, quantity caught, spots, comments.
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Thanks for the feedback guys. Weather is looking like sight fishing may be doable Thursday, so will probably burn a vacation day and move with purpose to get down there and fish mid-day/afternoon Thursday.
The other couple boats we can run around in are a 17’ Timbercreek and a 24’ Triton. I forget what the offshore boat is – some type of cat style, so we can probably fish the passes, etc. out of that too. The other guys will be focused on deeper water, and I’ll pivot after Thursday if I don’t find the reds shallow.
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Yes. I think the trout are more keyed in on shrimp there at the moment, but certainly opportunities other times of the year and who’s to say there aren’t a couple lunkers that would hit one now. I lived in Houston for a while, and there were a few folks I knew who didn’t bother to fish until “corky season” ~Jan – April. Good flats with dispersed oysters off the intracoastal come to mind as a target area for that kind of fishing. (Redfish would, of course, crush one, but I’m figuring you’re thinking trout – I’m sure neither of us are keen to lose a $10 lure to one of those bruisers.)
East Galveston Bay is way less pressured than West Bay because it’s a longer drive from Houston – I don’t know for sure, but I suspect there could be some sizable trout around.
Happy to provide more intel on boat launches, camps, etc. if you or others head that way ever.
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Reds on baby paca craw or suicide shad on a swim bait hook. A couple trout on matrix shad on a 3/8oz jighead, but they were definitely biting plastic under a popping cork more consistently – buddy was using gulp shrimp, I wanted to try old school sparkle beetle. Both worked well – slight edge for the gulp.
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Yes, I believe the ROLP gets you on the list.
