New gadget

[hole digger]

I went to godfrey point on oneida lake, New York yesterday to take a look around. The water was wide open and there was 2 guys casting off the end of the point. I chuckled to myself seeing a huge top water lure being casted.
As I approached, I saw no hooks on it. They showed me the coolest thing I have seen in years. It was a castable transducer with a hand held screen. The transducer must have a transmitter to send a signal telling what is going on.
The transducer was like 2 1/2 " around and they explained that a line could be tied on the back side and a lure could be seen on the transducer.
I hope they don't tie on to a big tiger muskey and lose that rig.  

[asphalt_kid]

Those little floating transducer arent cheap either. Man I would have some "REAL" heavy line on that.

[Pikemaster]

These are really cool.  They're made by Humminbird.  Simply a disc-shaped transducer that can be trolled, cast, or suspended.  It sends a signal back to either a wrist receiver that shows depth only or a small "box" that gives a primitive bottom picture.  First one I saw was used by a guy that does a lot of river fishing from shore. Allowed him to cast unit out and slowly retrieve until he had a feel for channel and other structure.  Another was someone without his own boat but borrows canoes, rowboats and sometimes rents pontoons.  Just drags unit behind boat as if trolling until he finds what he's looking for.  Excellent portable device for open water.

[bigredonice]

one problem, i already know of one person who found out that tiger muskies absolutely love that shade of green of the transducer

[Pikemaster]

Well, a guy could add a couple sets of #2 treble hooks and....nah, too expensive even by muskie bait standards.