Check out my Vex!

[DTro]

[theicehooker]

wow that is friggen pretty cool

[LMITOUT]

Two questions:

1- How is the target separation.

2- Do you have to wear a lead shield when operating the unit?

[leech~~]

Oh Great! I guess I will not be getting any Lake Trout next weekend if I have to wait for the water temp to get between 45-55F.

[Ed Carlson]

Kewl!

Nice find.

[Whopper Stopper]

Very nice!

WS

[Surface Tension]

Nice find Darren.

I still use them.

[Brad B]

Darren,

How old is that. what years were they made. where did you find it.

[DTro]

It was my grandfathers. I remember playing with it when I was younger so it has to be 30 years old.

I've had it for quite a while as part of my fishing decor in my man cave.

[fishwater]

that's pretty sweet!

[no bait nate]

very cool!

[DTro]

It's called a Vexilar Zonar and from the research I've done, looks like it was made approx 1970

[fishwater]

It's called a Vexilar Zonar and from the research I've done, looks like it was made approx 1970

Interestingly it pretty much has the same technology inside as a modern fl22. The only substantive improvement has been the 525 segment display and the tri-beam.

[greebs]

can I borrow it? I've not caught a pickeral in many many years and would like to go find some. looks like that is the tool that might help me find some.

[Brad B]

some of the old school equipment is cool. sure makes a good collectors piece.

[CAMAN]

That is pretty cool! Could someone please explain how it was supposed to work?

[Surface Tension]

Its a thermometer.

[CAMAN]

Seriously?!? What's the dial on it for then?

[harvey lee]

My father had one but when he passed away, I think that was also retirerd.

Cool old piece of fishing memorabillia

[fishwater]

Seriously?!? What's the dial on it for then?

You set the dial to the middle of the range of the species you hope to fish for. You drop the depth bomb probe until the needle (blue region) centers. You count the depth off and proceed to fish in that region of the water column. Essentially it's a resistance bridge where the needle clarifies the point of equal resistance between the potentiometer (dial) and the probe.

[leech~~]

Its a thermometer.

Couldn't you still use it to find thermo breaks up on the big pond? Not that you would want to chance losing the old gal now!

[Steve Foss]

Essentially it's a resistance bridge where the needle clarifies the point of equal resistance between the potentiometer (dial) and the probe.

Wait. What?

[Surface Tension]

There are probes you attach to the downrigger ball. Sub Troll is one of them.

I use a hardwired one to find temps for Inland lake trout.

[Ed Carlson]

If you take it in the context of it's time, it was on the crest of a new wave in fishing.

Dialing it in on the "Ol' Way Back Machine"....several of the founding fathers of modern fishing started a new theory of fishing, and then the Lindners came along and ran with it much further and to a far higher level of detail and refinement. Establishing the key elements to Modern Structure Fishing....and temp at depth was then, and still is today, a key component in the system.

It is a nifty bit of early Fish-Tech, that is just as useful today really. It's just that now we are too modern to use them.

It's a Kewl find in good working condition. I wish I had one to add to my collection of Fish-Tech memorabilia. I would hang onto it.

[JeffB]

I used one of those once. It didn't help I drilled holes all day but couldn't find the the 55-70 degree water needed to fish walleye. I switched over to panfish and that turned out to be even more troublesome.