I Think I Will Go Old School This Year

[Jim Almquist]

My new locator that I picked up at the Swap Meet today in Twig. Not sure were I want to mount it just yet

[Borch]

That is old school Jim. I've alway been a flasher guy though slowly moving into the graph world.

[delmuts]

I wouldn't be with out one on a boat! Instant bottom reading compared to a graph.

[Northlander]

Man Jim I hope you paid Tom the $5 you cost him by buying that "antique" from slick Dick.

It will be a cool lil conversation piece if nothing else.

[Jim Almquist]

Dick told me it was bought in 1959 or 1960. The guy mounted it in his boat for fishing on Lake Superior. I am the third owner of this little gem. The thing draws some juice. I had to hook it up to a deep cycle battery in order to get it to light up.

[PerchJerker]

I wouldn't be with out one on a boat! Instant bottom reading compared to a graph.

Hate to be the one to break it to you, but today's graphs give instant bottom readings too and have for years

[Comit 2]

There is nothing better for fishing a steep breakline. It only tells you what is under your boat right now with no distractions.

I never fish (in a boat) with out a flasher. OLD SCHOOL all the way baby!

[RK]

Nothing better on a steep break, and nothing better for reading fish welded to the bottom. Can read the 'back side' of a flasher signal to spot fish on the bottom - can't do that with a graph. What I liked about them was being able to watch them out of the corner of my eye and still be able to see how deep I was just based on where on the dial it was lit. can't do that as easily with a graph.

I still have 2 working Lowrance 2330s (one of the best flashers ever made IMHO) and a Humminbird Silent Sixty in my basement. When I finally get a boat to leave at the cabin all the time, a flasher's going on it for sure.

[gregg52]

YA i have 2 flashers on the shelf one is going into the yar craft at some point this

year its just a confidence thing with me i fished with them so long and understand them so well

kinda hard to teach the old dog

most of my using the 520 is guess work

i spose if i read the book alittle more it would benfit me some

i remember when these type of locators started coming out i was at the show and talked to lowrance rep there about these vs the paper graph he said the paper graph was far superior to them as it had 1000 pixels per inch and at that time the best lcd was like 200 or so

and dont believe they are alot higher today so that gray line effect the paper graph had is still questionable in my mind i think you could be miissing alot of fish close to the bottom that i know i see with the flasher..i know specially fishing mille lacs and picking fish out on the flats in the mud my flasher was excellent

but as i said i'm old and its tuff to change after 20 yrs specially when you are catching fish!!!!

[Gordie]

Nice buy Jim.

I love the Transistor Fathometer should make for a great conversation in the boat while pullin dypsy divers

[mojogunter]

Wow I am old and I thought set in my ways, but nothing like some of you. I have a hard time keeping down imaging on the screen, and for the most part keep traditional sonar up unless there is something I want to look at closer. In reality the down imaging shows better what is better below the boat than traditional sonar, but that habit or me is hard to break. I guess the same is true with you guys and flashers. I don't know what kind of dinosaur graphs you have been looking at, but unless you are anchored up and fishing right below the boat I think for me the graph is the way to go. I still use an FL-20 on the ice but in open water I haven't had a flasher on my boat since 1999.

[Surface Tension]

Jim, I don't think Lisa is going to be impressed.

She wants a H-Bird 55.

[harvey lee]

JIm can give his to Lisa.

Who knows, maybe Frank from American Pickers will be in your area and you can clean up selling it to them.

[Jim Almquist]

For the right price I might be able to part with it. A brand new Marcum LX7 or even a nice little Hummingbird 55 might just sway me

[Ray Esboldt]

I have never owned a boat that didn't have at least one flasher mounted in it. In fact the current boat is the first that doesn't have two.

I always say that I can tell a good fisherman by the fact that he/she has a flasher in the boat. Or, at the very least that fisheman is old(-school)like me.

[Jim Almquist]

These are the actual 1960 ads for the Fathometer:

[chaffmj]

Wow $125 in the 60's was pretty spendy.

[Jim Almquist]

Wow $125 in the 60's was pretty spendy.

Minimum wage was a $1.00 so that very well could have been 2-3 weeks wages.

[reddog]

Since a temperature guage isnt included with your depth finder, maybe I can help out with this vexilar.. I think it will work as a depth finder also, but probably not as fast as your Raytheon..

[Jim Almquist]

Very cool Reddog!!

With that I could be one up to date boat sporting some of the latest technology form the 60s

[reddog]

Jim, I have a pristine fiberglass 1959 Pipestone Fiberglass "Chief" runabout in the shed, waiting for the time to restore it (gel is faded). It has a unique "double ball" trailer, where the first ball stays hooked to the vehicle, and the second ball releases to tilt the trailer to unload or load. When you are loading it with the trailer tilted, when you get the the balancing point, you simply push it down on to the second ball and latch it, and then contiune cranking in on the trailer. It would be pretty cool to equip a vintage boat with high tech equipment from that era. I have a new looking Lowrance Green box that may be a candidate with the Vexilar.

To the other person that mentioned the 2330, I also have two of these, that have long since been retired. They were great units.

[Jim Almquist]

That sound like a very cool project!

You will have to let Joe at Garage Logic see a few of the pics when the project is done. He is a old boat guy.

[Down Deep]

I have Color Selector that would look very nice next that flasher.