Tom: You sound like a busy man. Will you have time to visit me at Northridge High this weekend? If not, maybe I could come to the house, because I will be so close......... Let me know.
Larry J >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/9/2006 9:47:45 PM >>> Between wrapping up the last month of school, visiting with my granddaughter, and getting the yard ready for a wedding reception (I have a daughter getting married May 31st) I haven't had time to read or respond any email. I have had to take day's off work to get any fishing in, the nights and weekends are filled with "honey-do's". On top of that I want to build a new rod and repair and re do the tip on another. I did, however, find time to rig up a new fish finder (Hummingbird Fishfinder 565) for my kick boat. I have been using a "Fishing Buddy" finder for years, but I wanted to try out the wonders of the higher resolution finders designed to go on boats. It wasn't two hard to adapt it to a kick boat. I bought an aluminum frame designed to hold the transponder,which is clamped onto the square aluminum cross beams that support the seat of the kick boat and can be easily removed for launching and shallow water. I mounted the base of the unit to a piece of hickory wood which is lashed with metal straps to the frame. The whole thing is powered by a small, 12 volt seal gel battery which sits in one of the side patches. The actual unit head pops into the mount and can be easily removed for safekeeping. I'll try it out at Strawberry Reservoir this Thursday. I'll report how it worked, and then will go off list until the first week of June Tom Davenport
