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  1. Everything that you need is provided. No Chip games to play. Thousands of charts are available free of charge from our government.You tell me what you want and I put it on.  Navionics and others take the government charts and modify them slightly and make them proprietary and sell them to you for hundreds. Typically I load the whole GLs package. Big screen zoom is amazing. The smaller the screen the less likely you'll be on track when following your track. You have seen smaller screens than your 7 and when you go to a 10 or a 13 it's just better. I like running two separate units rather than a spilt screen on a combo or toggling back and forth from sonar to chart. The GPS signal with this set up is amazing. I routinely maintain signal in my basement and in steel buildings. `

    Can be used on and off the boat like a laptop on these are military spec. The USCG has this setup at the helm of the icebreakers.

    They are not for everyone but a lot of folks have seen the value in these. Myself included. What got me started down this road about 7 yrs ago was the chips. Every time I looked at a several hundred dollar unit they wanted more money for a chip or here a chip for there etc. It's just an alternative to what else is out there. You will not find much in the $400 range.

    Even off the water they are a nice planning tool. At the top of the dashboard is your current coordinates at the bottom is your cursor coordinates. Keyboard shortcuts do most of the work. Man overboard is control spacebar. Zoom in is control Z. Zoom out is control X.

    How is this for a zoom out? And just click on any part of that screen and get an zoom in with numbers you can see forom several feet away.

     

     

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  2. These are VN Toughbooks and Chartplotter will be installed at your request.

    Of course these have WIFI and other means to connect to the WWW.

    Both units have excellent Touch Screens.

    Included are GPS, DC and AC chargers.

    Both are now running the latest Windows10 64 bit version, and have 2GB of RAM and upgraded to a 250GB Hard Drive.

    These are used by our military including the USCG on our Great Lakes Icebreakers. These are also great in all kinds of shop or garage environments.

    I select the best Toughbooks I can find and upgrade them. These are made to take a beating and some do. These two have seen light duty.

    These also have MS Office.

    $400 Add $15 if you need a built in DVD CDRW drive. A package of over 7000 inland lakes can be added very reasonable.

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  3. I'll have some more of these available soon. I look for and find units that are in very good condition and do what's necessary to update them. This set up maintains signal better than anything I have ever seen. I can get signal in a basement or steel building where other units can't. Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to use. Built in log book feature lets you add and edit info complete with automatic time, date, and coordinates. If they didn't impress me I wouldn't be doing this. Charts and software are inexpensively available for a lot of inland lakes also. Just basic computer skills are needed. The best value in large screen GPS chartplotters hands down. Of course like any other GPS they are not to be used as your only means of navigation. There is never a substitute for an experienced helmsman or captain. THANKS

  4. I use my toughbook chartplotter for information I want to save. The SeaClear program has a built in logbook. If you put in a note it's complete with a coordinate and date automatically. At the dock or in the house you can later add all the details you want. :) Here's a screen shot. Click on pic to view.

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  5. Late in August 2 of fished in 30 FOW. We worked hard for 13 nice walleye on a constantly changing day. One of the fish had some lip bling and didn't know it was one of the few tags that are worth $100. According to the DNR about 10% of the tagged fish are stamped with the reward designation. The fish was an 18" male when tagged. I weighed and measured it at 1# 14oz and 18-5/16". We have taken numerous tagged fish over the years but this is the first reward tag. Another unique thing was this fish was tagged at the Au Gres River March 21, 2016 a 160 days before the catch. All of our other tags were from fish tagged on the Titt River.

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  6. One of these has a rubber backlit keyboard and low hrs. DVD R-CDRW $425

    One has a regular keyboard and low hrs. $410

    These are VN Toughbooks and Chartplotter will be installed at your request.

    Of course these have WIFI and other means to connect to the WWW.

    Both units have excellent Touch Screens.

    Included are GPS, DC and AC chargers.

    Both are now running the latest Windows10 64 bit version, and have 4GB of RAM and upgraded to a 500GB Hard Drive.

    These are used by our military including the USCG on our Great Lakes Icebreakers. These are also great in all kinds of shop or garage environments.

    I select the best Toughbooks I can find and upgrade them. These are made to take a beating and some do. These two have seen light duty.

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  7. I recently acquired a Toughbook in Very Good condition. I upgraded it to Windows10 and upgraded the Hard Drive to 500GB. With the new owners permission I'll install Software to use this as a chartplotter. Included are a GPS, DC charger, AC charger. No disappointments with the condition of this unit. Of course this is a fully functioning laptop that can hold up to things that destroy normal laptops. Here are a couple of pics. $400

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  8. I haven't fished near as much as in the past. We have experienced more NE winds this year than I can ever remember. NE is nothing but bad for fishing the W shore of the Saginaw Bay. Even mild NE winds can be detrimental.

    We have never before been able to put over 30 fish in the box with the old limits of 5 walleye in combination with pike, bass, and flathead cats. We have had 30 fish boxes with six people onboard but most of the time our crew is at 4 people, but that was the past.

    I'm not sure I agree with the DNRs decision to decrease the size of the walleye to 13" and increase the take to 8. I'm keeping an open mind and time will tell how this will play out. The DNR are the experts and have did well with this Saginaw Bay Fishery in conjunction with some private walleye clubs. The Bay has been self sustaining for years. Hats off to the Saginaw Bay clubs and DNR for their work in getting things to this point.

    With the new limits on the bay we have exceeded some of our past year's fish boxes. About a week ago we were blessed to have two back to back limit days out by the Big Charity Island. Mon July 25 we boxed 32 VN eyes, most being over 20". Tue July 26 we returned with our goal set at 32. This time however we had a special 6yo onboard and was able to ice 40 walleye most being over 18". Now it takes awhile to put 40 fish in the box but Matt reeled in all the walleye his little arms could handle. Matt hung in like a trooper only getting antsy the last hr. Our largest fish for the two days were around 25"

    We ran 3oz bottom bouncers off the longline down rods and 2oz off the board rods. We did sacrifice some hardware in the rocky conditions around the Charity Islands. We ran the deep lines by hitting bottom and then bring the bouncers up a few feet. We also ran some bouncers higher in the water with our Offshore boards and they produced some nice fish also. Probably our best combo was a #4 fire tiger blade on a two hook harness on the down rods. Purple, antifreeze, and a glow green chartreuse all worked well. The action at the Islands can be hit and miss and requires a long boat ride to get out there.

    Thanks to Joe B, Chuck A, Don M, Matt, Karl M, Mike T, and Skip S, for the great team work on these two trips.

     

     

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