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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8103 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #90 - Aug 26^th, 2019 at 10:04am
	What's that hanging off the side of your canoe?


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DentonDoc Moderator Inukshuk Offline Posts: 3468 Location: Central Texas Joined: Dec 27^th, 2003	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #91 - Aug 26^th, 2019 at 4:11pm
	solotripper wrote on Aug 26^th, 2019 at 10:04am: What's that hanging off the side of your canoe? I'll venture a guess ... a downrigger for a depth/fish finder. I started using rental canoes a few years back (because I was flying up to north country rather than driving). I found the use of a suction cup to hold the transponder was a hit-and-miss proposition, so I crafted a "downrigger" for my last trip from PVC pipe. I made it from PVC (along with end caps, an "L" bracket and a few bolts/wing nuts) so I could break it down for travel and storage. Using PVC allowed me to drill holes over the length of the "down piece" so I could adjust the depth of the attachment of the transponder. I even went so far as to take a smaller diameter piece of pipe that would fit inside the basic design (with graduated holes so I could further extent the depth. dd


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8103 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #92 - Aug 26^th, 2019 at 4:59pm
	DentonDoc wrote on Aug 26^th, 2019 at 4:11pm: solotripper wrote on Aug 26^th, 2019 at 10:04am: What's that hanging off the side of your canoe? I'll venture a guess ... a downrigger for a depth/fish finder. I started using rental canoes a few years back (because I was flying up to north country rather than driving). I found the use of a suction cup to hold the transponder was a hit-and-miss proposition, so I crafted a "downrigger" for my last trip from PVC pipe. I made it from PVC (along with end caps, an "L" bracket and a few bolts/wing nuts) so I could break it down for travel and storage. Using PVC allowed me to drill holes over the length of the "down piece" so I could adjust the depth of the attachment of the transponder. I even went so far as to take a smaller diameter piece of pipe that would fit inside the basic design (with graduated holes so I could further extent the depth. dd I think that's probably it. That didn't pop into my head because there has been so much discussion about just using adhesive to attach the puck to the floor of the canoe temporarily. I forgot people even used a downrigger like on their canoes.


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mpeebles Inukshuk Offline Posts: 598 Location: Fond du Lac, WI Joined: Feb 26^th, 2018	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #93 - Aug 27^th, 2019 at 11:34am
	It is indeed a swing up mount for a transducer. By the way there was nice herd of fish below the rapids. Had a 26+ out of there. Today's pic was on a moose paddle in the evening. I thought the silhouette shot was kinda neat. I'm up at the land doing some food plot and "timber time" (to quote Bob B.) stuff. Slooowwww connectivity up here even with a booster .


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mpeebles Inukshuk Offline Posts: 598 Location: Fond du Lac, WI Joined: Feb 26^th, 2018	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #94 - Aug 27^th, 2019 at 11:49am
	By the way wishing everyone well that are going into Quetico this week! At least I think it's this week. Enjoy and safe travels........


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8103 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #95 - Aug 27^th, 2019 at 12:41pm
	Quote: By the way there was nice herd of fish below the rapids. I always like to fish in moving water. One year I had read in the BWJ about someone catching a monster pike fishing that way so I thought I'd give it a try at Split Rock. Had a big red/white Daredevil lure. I sat off to the side and cast up into the flow and sure enough something grabbed the lure. Never got it to surface but it was a monster. I had only #10 test and after it got tired of playing with me it just swam off pulling the canoe with it. Finally, the line snapped. I'd like to have a do-over with my TUNA trolling rod with the #40 braid and steel leader. Still might not land it but it would be a hell of a ride.


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Jimbo Moderator Inukshuk Offline Posts: 4597 Location: Florida Joined: Oct 6^th, 2002	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #96 - Aug 27^th, 2019 at 1:27pm
	mpeebles wrote on Aug 27^th, 2019 at 11:49am: By the way wishing everyone well that are going into Quetico this week! At least I think it's this week. Enjoy and safe travels........ Thanks, Mike! Sorry you can't join us on this one! Some party members are on the move today, convening at my house tonight. We trek up to Ely tomorrow to join the other half of the crew. We may even have a chance to meet some other QJ members while we're there. Then, we enter the park on Thursday & will be up there for two weeks. Almost half of our route will be "new water" for me (I normally enter on the north or west sides) so I'm excited about that. I expect to feel strangely dependent on the route knowledge of the others. I will have to learn how to "follow the leader", I guess. Of course, since one of those leaders is in MY boat, that shouldn't be too hard to do (unless he abandons ship when I start singing). For what it's worth, I expect the faces of a few of the characters on this year's trip to appear in a BWJ story about our trip LAST year. I'm betting that at least ONE of the pics will be "canine" in nature. Anyway, that story should come out about a week or two after we return. If THIS September's trip is half as good as last September's trip, we'll have a great time. Also, I'm hoping the fishing has picked up since our visit to Veron & Delahey last May. We'll be just on the other side of the Death March Portages; maybe that'll be all the difference we need! Carry on, Jimbo


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mpeebles Inukshuk Offline Posts: 598 Location: Fond du Lac, WI Joined: Feb 26^th, 2018	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #97 - Aug 27^th, 2019 at 4:55pm
	Solo.....we caught some nice northerns in there as well but nothing like the one you had on! We caught some dandies in the n/w part of WCPP last year but not many big ones this year in the n/e part of the park. Who knows?! Later......Mike


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Old Salt Inukshuk Offline Posts: 4871 Location: Crossville, TN Joined: Jun 17^th, 2004	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #98 - Aug 28^th, 2019 at 4:10am
	Tight Lines to QJ’s very own secret seven as they explore the heart of Quetico!


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8103 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #99 - Aug 28^th, 2019 at 10:30am
	Be safe you guys and take LOTS of pics for the POD file


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