#132992 - 12/31/01 10:39 PM
Temperature Gauges
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Registered: 04/23/01
Posts: 301
Loc: Battle Ground, WA
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#132993 - 01/02/02 05:15 PM
Re: Temperature Gauges
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 12/05/01
Posts: 124
Loc: Washington
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I use a $15+- one from Orvis.com. Or get at any good fly shop. It's small and pretty accurate. I've owned a number of fishing thermometers over the years (including electronic depth-sensitive ones) and these little ones seem to be the best. They will break if you drop them, however. But they are only $15+-. Beware, though, that I've had plenty of them be at least a little bit off in their readings. Most seem to be consisant, but a few degrees high or low (my current one is 1.5 degrees to high.) So what I do is compare it's reading (at home) to any other thermometers (fishing or otherwise) I have around the house, such as my home's master gas heating thermometer that's on my wall, and garden thermometers I use for the yard. But you might not want to go to all that trouble. Or just compare it to a buddy's thermometer, once, while on a stream.
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#132994 - 01/02/02 05:24 PM
Re: Temperature Gauges
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Poodle Smolt
Registered: 05/03/01
Posts: 10979
Loc: McCleary, WA
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Check out your local restaurant supply store and buy a "biotherm". These are used to check food temps. You can even recalibrate them by using boiling water. They are tough to break, in ten years of restaurant work, I only saw one fail, it went into the oven.
Get the low temp version. They have a holder that clips onto your vest, and they cost less than $10.
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#132996 - 01/04/02 06:03 PM
Re: Temperature Gauges
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Smolt
Registered: 01/11/00
Posts: 93
Loc: Kenmore, Wa, USA
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Who needs to waste the time to bash the poor guy who asked a question when that time could be spent fishing. Geez, what's this board for, helping each other out, or pissin up a rope???? Take a break bud! Maybe when he finds the right thermometer he'll take your temp with it!
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#132998 - 01/04/02 10:44 PM
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 06/14/00
Posts: 1866
Loc: Toledo, Washington
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Krome Brite That was funny! I was going to say " just use your finger!" :p Glad I didn't say that now! Cowlitzfisherman Is the taste of your bait worth the sting of the hook???? [ 01-04-2002: Message edited by: cowlitzfisherman ]
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#132999 - 01/05/02 12:36 AM
Re: Temperature Gauges
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Smolt
Registered: 01/11/00
Posts: 93
Loc: Kenmore, Wa, USA
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Yup Kromer, you got it. Realize not everyone here knows who is friend and who is foe. Send your slams on personal email and not a BB post that may be taken in the wrong context by other readers.
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#133000 - 01/05/02 12:47 AM
Re: Temperature Gauges
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Spawner
Registered: 10/29/01
Posts: 561
Loc: Kenmore, WA
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when i'm standing in the river with my neoprene waders 3 pairs of socks and heatpads in my feet and still cant feel them i know its too cold. tyler
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#133001 - 01/05/02 12:57 AM
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Registered: 04/23/01
Posts: 301
Loc: Battle Ground, WA
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KB,
I don't know who your joking, but I don't know you. I think that was just your excuse for not being called a basher. Grow-up dude, it's not like it's a "secret" or anything.
Matt
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#133002 - 01/06/02 09:11 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 10/18/00
Posts: 683
Loc: Washougal, WA
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Why is everybody always f*cking with me?!
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#133003 - 01/06/02 09:22 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 10/29/01
Posts: 561
Loc: Kenmore, WA
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its because your a youngin'! And you don't know nothin bout the river! J/K Tyler
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#133004 - 01/07/02 12:18 AM
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Returning Adult
Registered: 04/23/01
Posts: 301
Loc: Battle Ground, WA
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To all of you that thought I was serious about KB, I was just kidding. This was kinda my way of getting back at him for something else. No harm, no foul, but I went off the deep end with the BS. Sorry KB.
Anyway, so most any thermometer will work fine, if calibrated?
Matt
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