RyanValentino
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Great trip and report! Glad y’all got em, and thanks for posting!
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I’m on Windows 11. Having trouble logging in from the laptop. On from phone now. I’ve never had issues from laptop before.
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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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Thanks Shooter!
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Acting up again this evening (windows 11, chrome):
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Worked today no problem. Might have been a one off yesterday. It was saying something to the effect of ‘website not secure.’ I was on other sites, so I don’t think it was a local, internet issue.
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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.
