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Yes it is digital and yes I have looked inside of some eletronics and had a class in it once many years ago, not that I would or could fix one. So yes I understand the repair cost that is why I asked the opion of people on here what should I buy far as new one. just like you said sometimes its just better to get a new one.

You won't see as many fish as any other unit with the Raymarine. That's because a Raymarine will only mark fish that are actually their. They don't mark a huge bait ball from top to bottom as a black blob, cause that isn't how it actually is below your boat. Most other units will mark interference as fish along with weeds and other debri in the water. The unit you got is going to be hard to beat for 500 bucks. Alot of guys freak out and think their is something wrong with their locator if they aren't marking tons of fish. Some days their just isn't much to mark. A good example of this is come the third week in August you mark tons of big hooks suspended throughout the water column that you haven't marked all season. Those fish are zoned out 4 year olds ready to enter the harbor. All season long those same fish were either bottom related or moving in looser schools.

I understand what you are saying, but the problem I have is I also have a furno on the boat, I have a flybridge with furno up top and the raymarine on the deck. I can mark fish on the furno and sometimes catch some of those fish while the raymarine shows nothing.

I use VC 17 as well, they only sell it quarts because after you mix it it dries very fast, other paints such as pettit, or interlux are good too. Just do NOT use west marine paint it is the cheapest stuff in price and quaility, and the other thing to keep in mind is once you paint it you almost have to stay with that brand of paint. Most bottom paints will not work with others. The paint will peel off then to correct it you have to strip it all off and start over. The VC-17 with bio lux goes on a rust color then after being in the water a few weeks it will change to a dark gray or charcoal color.

If you have a thru hull ducer you might want to see if you can get a unit that is compatible with it. That way you don't have to replace the ducer. Just a thought.

thats a great idea thanks I never thought about that.

What is it about the Ray Marine 720 that you don't like?

Hummingbird has really stepped up there game also.

I just dont see the fish and when i do mark fish they are hard to see and figure what is fish and other noise. I have turned off the auto and ran manual turned the sensitivty up and down still no help. I have a thru hull transducer. I called Ray Marine and they told me to send it them and they would look at it for 200 dollars minnum and no promise that its going to fix or solve anything, they have a 200 dollar min for anything they do now. So I figured that I would look for something new and hopefuly better.

Im in the market for a new fish finder and was pretty sure I was going to buy a Lowrance. But after reading some of the past posts in this section Im not so sure any more. I now have a older Ray Marine 720 that I do not really care for so Im looking to upgrade. I would like to know what you think about what you have and would you buy another from that manufactuor ? also does High def make that big of a differance Im looking to spend about $500 may be $600 but want to stay closer to 500

I would give them a try to test them out.

do they run ok with other boards as well ? I have some church boards that I run now would I have any problems running both at the same time?

Looking for opions on Z boards, I have thought about buying some for pulling heavy copper lines but I dont know if they work as good as they claim they are ?

The 19th works for me, Im not going to the boat show.

inner tube works great

Warm water fishing as well and how to figure out what speed at the ball to run

I know that fish typicaly swim or face with there head in the current, But wich way do they hit a lure or food from? comeing at them so you would be trolling with current or go against the current so the lure is comeing up from behind them?

I understand and agree with you, I just want to make sure I dont get introuble with you because I use many different computers at work and just one at home.

For me it takes a while to load then plays for a few seconds then buffers and then does the same thing again. I do not if its my internet or something else. I have verzion wireless.

Mike,

I do not know alot about computers like IP address so this my question if im at work and view the site does that look like what you are talking about?

I do when im at view the site often and I dont want you or anyone thinking im giveing out my password or something.

I agrre with the others on the 30 min. Thanks for takeing the time to do all this work

I agree with everone else, A lot of people fish out of muskegon and running to grand haven can be a haul. I would be in but im not sure if I want to run south for a weigh in.

Just my two cents

Thats an awesome deer way to go !!

Congrats to you Ken:no:

A bad of fishing is still better than being at work like iam right now:(

great job Jim.

I have a question, what do you mean when you say from 11s to 8s?

I agree with ICE MAN some also run a short dipsy as well maybe 30-35 feet back

we had riggers set at 15,20, & 23 then we also had 2 slide divers with plugs 20 behind the diver with another 25 ft out. I wondered if would have one the big king for yours mike. Im going to see if can figure out how to upload the picture of the three on here

Started out in 45fow at 6am I went south of the pier heads to avoid the pack that was in close and the one out deep. I was in two different tourneys at the same time by my mistake The one from here wich I forgot til this morning and one out of Harbor Towne, it was weigh your biggest 3 fish.We worked south til around the weather bouy and had no hits and then worked out too 150fow with still no hits Had to have lines pulled bye 11am so we headed back tothe pier heads to the combat zone. Seen one neted outside the pier heads. I went down the channell to just west on the silver sides and hooked up with our first fish at 10:30 a nice 16lb king, got to the end of the coast guard cutter and hooked the second fish on a chrome red head a 19.6 lb king it was now 10:45 iwent a little farther down the channel turned went back to where we caught the first and a slide diver set 50 back with a green ladderback #4 J plug went for our third fish a 17.4lb king wich we got in the boat at 10:55. weigh in was at noon so I could not make it to both weigh ins sorry. But we did win first place with our lucky last minute 3 three kings.