Originally posted by umrules:
Mastercaster,
Checking your voltage is easy to do. Use a digital volt meter, put your boat in the water head out away from other boats and drop your downrigger ball down about 10 feet. Turn all of your electronics off in the boat and measure with the negative meter lead on the Neg Terminal of your battery and the positive lead to your downrigger cable. You should read somewhere between .5 and 1.0 vdc. If not you need to check you zincs. Now turn on all of your electronics one item at a time. You shouldn't see much of a change as you turn these items on. If you do you probably have a grounding problem with a particular item. When all of your electronics are on, you should still be between .5 and 1.0 vdc.
Make sense?
Cool! Thanks so much UM!!!
I will have to try that. I used to guide (6 years) and I am a true believer in fish sensitivity to many things. I could be catching fish left and right (especially Walleye) and then all the boats would show up and the bite would go off.... After many years I figured it was all the folks running their fishfinders. Sound waves (especially the high freq. of bottom finders) pounding down on fish has to affect them, since their lateral line is their "hearing" tool..... The old flashers running at 50 hertz did not seem to bother them, but the fish finders funning at 200 hz sure seemed to......
MC
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