Good morning to all ye Fishermen, Sailors and Patriots.......

Enjoy a Great Sunday and all the daylight that has been saved...

 

Good morning Oregon .. It's a snow removal day

 

Morning Roy, John and those to follow.

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Up to 29° under clear blue sky.

Yep, daylight is saved. It's the only day of the year I get to sleep in an extra hour!

 

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Pretty nice day here today, getting up to 50, but the 20 mph wind made it a little rough getting some things done outside. I was going to help a neighbor cut a big mostly dead oak tree down today, but with the wind we decided to change our plans. We need to get it down without taking out a hay barn or his green house.

 

Morning all and it begin again.

 

Morning Andy and those to follow.
Monday morning blah!

 

 

My son brought out a dozen handguns yesterday and we shot a clip each in each one. My favorite was the FN 509 tactical, he like the FN Five-seveN a little better. None of the Glocks made our top 3.

 

Morning all. Long weekend of busy...

The Carlton Cocktail Walk was pretty cool. I haven't spent much time there and I'm amazed at the downtown is full of winery's. I shouldn't be but, didn't realize that is now Carlton.... just like Mac, onlly smaller. We did end up hanging out the Carlton & Coast Tavern. Nice place with 38 beers, mostly local, on tap. They have this giant pretzel that's to die for.

Jim - The new Garmins do Navionics now as well. I have an Echomap and it will map the bottom and allow you to save the map and add it to the blue charts. This is a big deal if you fish a river like the CR where structure and finding those little funnels where fish will run is the key. Humminbird has something similar but they want you to pay a yearly fee to do that where the Garmin is part of the package. At the time Lowrance didn't off anything like that so they were out. I've always had a Lowrance and really like the sonar. The garmin sonar is so-so but it's hard to beat the mapping/gps. This is my first garmin unit and I was lucky to have an "in" and was able to get it a Garmin Employee pricing which is 40% off. Got my TR-1 that way too but my "in" has since left and no longer works there.

Sunday I spent the day cutting up an oak tree that had broke off and I had felled the rest of a couple weeks ago. Some of the rounds at the butt were well over 100lbs and trying to carry those in the mud was no fun. I wanted to get them to the house but no go. Just stacked them along the trail and when it dries out I'll haul them up in the tractor. Need to get it cut up and moved before the poison oak started leafing out. Needless to say this office jock is sore as heck today. Sad part is I have 2 firs to cut up still.

 

 

I have had the S&W M&P and they are nice. My son has it know. I usually carry my CZ 9mm, a little heavy but has never jammed even with cheap rounds I wouldn't dare fire in other handguns.

 

Good afternoon Oregon and everyone everywhere else. It's been a fairly busy morning around here.

Ended up going to Portland Marine Electronics to get the https://humminbird.johnsonoutdoors.c...-si-gps-g3-nav. They were $27 cheaper than anyone else, including Humminbird themselves. I was a little disappointed that PME didn't have it in stock like their web site said they did. When I got there, they had the exact same unit for more money, no Navionics Chip in the box.
The gal in the office was really nice. She looked it up on their web site and ordered it in for me and will ship it. Said I should have it by Wed. or Thurs.
She said the web shows it "In Stock" because the distributor has them in stock, not their store. She said they are talking about dropping the PME online store because apparently they can't keep up with what is being sold on the online store as opposed to what they have on the brick and mortar shelves and carry very little stock on hand. She said PME and Englund use the exact same distributor / web site people. So the moral of the story is to call ahead. If the web says someone has them in stock, it could be not entirely accurate - depending on whose definition of in stock you go by.

It's been awhile since I've had the Garmin BlueChart or LakeVu. I have a Garmin SD Map card here dated 2012. I tried to update it March 2016 and they wouldn't do it. Said I needed to buy a new chip for $. That would be just before my last Garmin Machine went down the tubes. I don't have anything I can use it on now. It's a 2 GB micro in an SD sleeve so I'll probably "repurpose" it for backing up sonar maps and logs off of the new machines.
I just 'recycled' the last Garmin Sonar/Chart Plotter last spring, which, was an old Garmin 545S. Kept telling me the lake bottom was at 500' when I could touch bottom with the boat pole. Kept it as a mapping/chart plotter backup, but the end of life came when my external GPS antennae died. I just looked up my Garmin Account at Garmin and see that I forgot I had a really old Garmin 180 Map. Now that is going back to the days when Chart Plotters and Sonars were two separate units for the most part.

I've never done anything with Humminbirds Lake Master. The birds Lake Master West Coast coverage is fairly new. For many years they were focused on bass fishing in the south and east and that's how I got started on Navionics. I see that Lake Master has now expanded greatly. I found out this weekend that Garmin has actually bought out Navionics. According to the factory rep, they are incorporating a lot of the Navionics programs into Garmin products, but will keep both companies on their own separate paths. I sure hope so. I'd hate to see Navionics go the way of Delorme.