BigGene wrote:
I have sat back and resisted any comment but can't any longer. back in the day, when portable fish finders, sounders etc were the rare exception instead of the rule, as now. When I wanted to know the depth and didn't have any of today's fancy technology I simply dropped my lure to the bottom, once there I simply backed away from the hole till the lure was up top and then I would have a reasonable idea of how deep I was fishing, not 100 % but it works.
The most important thing to remember is that the depth may have little consequence to catching fish. The important thing is to find the fish regardless of the depth and then go after them. I recommend you forget the depth wrist watch and save some coin and get yourself a good finder.
big gene being an oldtimer i can sure relate to that lol.. when flashers first came out we took one to a lake we ice fished for white fish..... we knew there was a deep trench not far from shore but was trial hole, after hole to find it.... we used the flasher in summer and found the hole then we headed to shore in various places along the trench.. at each landing we attached an eye bolt into a tree, and attached a line to it and using a compass headed back out till we found the trench.. we then cut the line and added a tag to it for each tree we used..had five lines in all lol..so we would just get there attach proper line to tree and using the compass heading we had wrote down walk out to end of line and drill a hole.....it is so much more simpler today..sometimes i wish they would ban all finders and younger fella's would have t work and learn waters.... ahhhhh well this new electronics really helps us old farts also
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