Recent content by captnchris

whistler.........Marine electronics manufacturers we depend on are the best in the world and that's exactly what they do. They build high quality electronics, they don't install them. In fact, troubleshooting installation and optimization of your transducer will comprize the majority of all...

Did you know that hull design, including aluminum (tin boats) assembled with rivets has nothng whatsoever to do with your external high speed or imaging transducer sounding? A row, or even a triple row (or more) of round rivets heads smattered across your transom have simply become an excuse for...

Study these line illustrations for just a moment, particularly the "Very Good" illustration. We know whose x'ducer is demonstrated here which makes no difference. The boat pictured is, of course, represented as running at planing speed. I've seen these illustrations for many years. A boat does...

It appears as though you'd be increasing 10.5 net additional hp. It looks like a jet on yours which takes into account 30%+ loss hp. at the lower unit. There is 15 lb. weight difference between the 2 engines...the 130 being >. I think you be would sorely disappointed in a maximum of a + - 4%...

2011 Texas Fishing Show Dallas Texas Click the Thumbnails SternMate™ Booth early Saturday Morning SternMate™ demo boat transom Visitors understanding SternMate™ Explanation of how SternMate™ takes advantage of displaced water Even Pro fisher-women proudly wear our colors

There are many that I would like to attend, however, that is humanly impossible. Unfortunately the majority of them are during the first quarter of every year.

Your galvanized Sportsman trailer (Steelco) is as good as they come. I learned this summer that the company in Santa Fe, TX, no longer exists.

Will do! Mississippi to Dallas would be a jaunt. We set up our booth yesterday. The show begins at 2 today, so, in the meantime, we are readying SternMate™orders that came in yesterday and overnight. Hopefully, some of the forum guys and gals who might be close by will find their way. Wintertime...

Yes..That's the show! The weather is supposed to be sort of nasty this weekend here in Dallas. But, that's not a good excuse in the vocabulary of a true die-hard fisherman.

Don't forget to stop by the SternMate™ booth January 6th thru 9th (tomorrow) at the Texas Fishing Show at Market Hall in Dallas. See you there!

The good Lord was watching out for his chosen.

Honestly, we've made all the same transducer mounting mistakes everyone else has, and then some. In the nearly 40 years we have mounted transducers, we've learned how to do it right. Here are a couple of recent SternMate™ news releases in "The Great Lakes Scuttlebutt". "Scuttlebutt" is a well...

"Down Imaging", which could be referred to as Hummingbird's Side Imaging (Si) , Lowrances's Structure Scan (LSS-1), etc. is imaging technology and in a class of its own and, of course, are not inexpensive. There are many other types if fish-seeking technologies (which do not include the highly...

Acoustics is everything when a transducer sounding performs at its optimum. There is no better method than unobstructed direct contact with the water to expect a transducer sounding to operate as the factory has "speced". When referring to "shoot-through" transducer installations, fiberglass or...

Good thought! And we wonder why the rest of the world can't understand US.