Another gadget bites the dust..
 

Well, I went out to go fishing today.I was in 3 feet of water but my Hummingbird showed 575 foot and fish everywhere..After messin gwith it for 30 miutes I realized it was broke..but I had no receipt or box.[:@]

My faucet also broke in my kitchen and we had a flolod last night as our portable dishwasher was hooked to it. While I was in Walmart I told the lady about my depth finder. I told her I'd only had it for about 30 days..she said you tell them at the service deskto give you a refund..I couldn't beleive it.I drove home..put the parts in a plastic bag ..{I couildn't find the instruction book } I was seriously praying..all the time hearing MTHands.."Don't fall for the gimmicks'"..Anyway...I gota Walmart gift card for 219.00 .My wife will give me cash for it since we grocery shop there....plumbing is fixed too. Praisethe Lord!
:)

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That was quick ( that it busted) Bu thatis great newsya got a refund on it without a recipt etc& all. ( sometimes they can be a real pain about that)( good to hear ya got your plumbing problem fixed to)

Last nite was my last day fishing here - its pouring rain now( had to fix a roof leak)- have to get pack up& head up to Ky for a bit- then home....

It aways feels realgood to get back home to Wyagain- tho i like visiting other places to.

See yall sometime in the future( i hope)

Take care yall& good luck, have fun fishing.

( glad you liked those pictures in the other thread C7 )

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Thanks Mr. Fish,
The faucet had been on there for 17 years..a Peerless..She came off pretty good. We knew the O rings were leaking and forgot and left it hooked up last night.

I was shocked about the depth finder..She didn't act like she wanted to give me the money back..She made a stiff upper lip but refunded me anyhow..:)

I'm really happy for that..and I'm putting a stop on all this crazy spending..I've gone 4o some years without a depth finder..Why do I need one now.

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A depth finder isn't a gimmick. If you want to ever do some serious off shore bass fishing a depth finder is a necessity to hone in on the spots that hold the bass. (sunken trees, ledges, dropoffs, humps, etc.) probably not that important since you seem to fish smaller channels but some of the borrow pits I fish up here nake it a necessity to catch anything other than little shore hugging bass!

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i told ya to stay away from humminbird;)

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Amen to that!!!

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I have had my humminbird 565for about 3 months now and it has preformed for all I need it for.

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yep i agree,depth finders are not gimmicks, got to have one to fish open water;), i can't imagine not having one[:-];)

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and a gps up front and console for that matter;)

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Well, we will see the final results on the tourny ..if it's just a gadget or not.:)

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come try and fish some of these 25,000 + acre lakes without one;)

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Come try and fish a 2 acre borrow pit without one!:D Well sometimes it is clear enough you don't need one... you can look down and see the bottom in 20 foot of water. Of course on those days the fishing is tough enough.

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thats one good thing about walmart...they will take ANYTHING back....heck...i worked there for a year and we got stuff back we didnt even sale!! how they return stuff up there is beyond me...

one day i was going through the sporting good returns and found a nicely tanned rabbit hide. no joke! who knows what they returned it as or how it got there...i asked the manager and she had no idea and said it was mine if i wanted it....it now sits on my shelf with a single shot percussion gun ontop of it! lol.

glad all the bad turned out half decint for ya!!

how long did the faucet run??? we have a portable dishwasher...if something goes wrong like that and noone is around your going to have a biggggg mess being the water is on the whole time!

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ya walmart and ams club are good about those things

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glad all the bad turned out half decint for ya!!

how long did the faucet run??? we have a portable dishwasher...if something goes wrong like that and noone is around your going to have a biggggg mess being the water is on the whole time!
Mauser 06

I appreciate that sir. Concerning the faucet..I usedto be a maintenance man for a 15 story high rise in Arlington Va...so I knew how to fix it..just procasterating..;)It had drippped 7 hours. We get up at 4:00 AM.The faucet had 2 separate handles for hot and cold..it would leak slowly under the sink in the middle of the faucet when the pressure of the portable dishwasher was applied. Generally when it's stops running I would turn of the water and relieve the pressure and it could keep me from gettingon my back and changing out the faucet. ..When Iwoke up yesterday there was a huge puddle of water going across the kitchen and dining room. I knew then I could no longer put it off. One thing for sure...I was glad I had bought those 10.00 flexable supply lines.They came right off. The main nuts that hold the faucet were a little bit of a pain.I should of put plumbers grease on them when I put it on..Anyway...I put on another and she is like new. I still don't let the dishwasher stay attached with pressure all night..I've put in about 20 new dishwashers when I was a maintenance man..When this one goes I plan to put one under the counter with it's own hot water supply. The reason I hadn't was because there is no electric near it.

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Concerning depth finders...

To be honest ..I fish likeI hunt...I'm not alone..The Lord is with me. Now yes..if I were to fish a new lake and in tournaments..a depth finder would be handy..butI plan to fish the same lakes I always fish...In 1997 we had a serious drought...at that time I gathered old coke bottles off the lakes bottom..I also discovered all those islands of rocks and rock piles..I know my lakes real good.

When I fish or hunt..I may go with my preplanned event for about 1 hour...and if that don't work I'll stop and ask for God's guidance..The scriptures say "In whatsoever you do..do all to the glory of God." I apply everything I do to this verse..I'm sure Gaylord Perry never had a depth finder when he landed that 22 .4 ounce bass in Lake Montgomery ,GA, ;)
I've always found the depth of a lake real fast by counting down my Rooster Tail.

But honestly...I fish with God. Once when I didn't have a boat I got hooked up with a couple of fellows who took me out on thier boat.They were using God's name in vain..They wouldn't stop when I ask them nicely..I had them take me to the shore and I walked home..which was a long ways. I honestly think the malfunction of the depth finder was God's chastizement..He disciplines those he loves.Hebrews 12..He spoketo my heart and told me they would refund me. The lady ask me why I didn't what to exchange it for another one..I told her"God was teaching me to stop wasting my money.";)
Love you guys,
Just being honest here,
C7

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chuck ive been using the same humminbird wide 480 fish finder for almost 10 years. the problem you had ive seen several time before and it can happen to any make of fishfinder its not because it was a humminbird that it had issues. what usually causes that is a short in the circutry which can happen im sure for a number of reasons but the few fishfinders ive seen had one of these 2 reason. first reason is the fish finder was hardwired directly to a deep cycle batter if it would have had a inline fuse or breaker of 4 amps or less it would have prevented the problem. the other one the co-ax cable to the transducer got a kink in it which cause the casing in the cord to expose the core wire and it shorted with the other wire in the cord. which I had this happen with a bottom line fish finder a couple years ago because I had tryed to make it into a portable unit so the cords were loosely strung out throughout the boat.

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Highdesert ,
You are correct about the short. Yesterday I was fishing at this big lake..I was striking out so I decided ot go to Saddle Creek. My depth finder was working great then. When I was gettign the boat off of the trailor at Saddle Creek I noticed the transducer wire stuck in the trolling motor bracket..rather tightly. It had done that once before but i thought i had it taped out of the way..Anyway..I headed out toward a nice deep point.Aaron was with me..I turned on the depth finder and there was fish everywhere..I said ,"Aaron, man brother, we are on fish!" I started chucking out my crankbaits and drifting a Carolina Rig..I noticed wherever I went though there were fish..:(Ut oh..I looked carefully and my depth said 375 feet..in small letters...and then in giant letters and the fish alarm started going off..and then I shut her off and started messing wiht it..Then I took a deep breath and said it's only 220.00 It could be worse.Then, I chucked out a Strike King Spinner bait and caught a nice bass. yep, it was a short.I didn't cut the line but it was pinched enough to short it out. I was also happyto put 220.00 back in my fishing and hunting fund.;)as well.
God bless,
C7

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just a FYI.. you do know that those fish "icons" are horribly inaccurate correct? Usually anything floating in the water column will trip the fish icon. Best bet is to use your depth finder only for finding structure

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Amen Josh.

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I have used a Hummingbird TCR portable for years and I couldn't tell you how old it is. It no longer beeps on fish but, it does allow me to watch the bottom of the lakes up here. Some lakes up here you need something to watch the bottom or it is good by lower unit. Some folks on one of these lakes have summer camps where they live on the lake all summer and still loses a lower unit once in a while. So any kind you get that allows you to watch the bottom is good to have up here.

Also as stated earlier that weeds or other debrie can look like fish on your depth finder.