I have an older FL-8 that seems to be losing its sensitivity. Naturally, my first thought was a bad transducer. I have both the ice-ducer and the high speed transducer, and I did the test described on this forum and the Vex site (holding the ducers 2' above a hard surface and looking for a line at 9'). Both ducers showed lines at a gain setting of about 4. Power and transducer connections look clean. On a recent lake trout trip into Canada, however, I was only able to pick up my jig to about 30', and that was with the gain cranked to 10, which gave me tons of clutter. There were some other Vex's (8's and 18's) around, but I'm pretty sure it's not an interference problem, as I've noticed the same thing last year when fishing deeper water with no other flashers around.
Could it still be a bad ducer, or is it the unit itself? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I have an older FL-8 that seems to be losing its sensitivity. Naturally, my first thought was a bad transducer. I have both the ice-ducer and the high speed transducer, and I did the test described on this forum and the Vex site (holding the ducers 2' above a hard surface and looking for a line at 9'). Both ducers showed lines at a gain setting of about 4. Power and transducer connections look clean. On a recent lake trout trip into Canada, however, I was only able to pick up my jig to about 30', and that was with the gain cranked to 10, which gave me tons of clutter. There were some other Vex's (8's and 18's) around, but I'm pretty sure it's not an interference problem, as I've noticed the same thing last year when fishing deeper water with no other flashers around.
Could it still be a bad ducer, or is it the unit itself? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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