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It was a pretty day today but the wind was blowing. Put some miles on the boat 200 miles round trip. Lau chef at the the launch in Lydia by the new bridge hit the intracoastal canal all the way to the locks north of the icc canal, nothing! Then we head baback to the small canal west of 4 mile cut to hide from the winds then we cut through fearman lake, stopped at both the wiers by the game camp. Nothing. Then we headed to the weir by hell hole. Then back back through fearman. Same route back to the intracoastal water. Once we hit the icw to the 6 mile trip west to a spot I fished. Got there nothing but cats. Gaftop and channel cats no keepers. Decided to take it in and headed down the ICW back to the launch. Only burned half a tank gas.
Only had 1 victim fall for ththe bait that was worth keeping.
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Lol, he looks happy!

Way to give it hell Lawrence

Man, next time you feel like running like that go down to the Humble and smash them big Cats and Bulls that are always lurking under the bridge.

I started to head that way but it was, 4:00 so we headed in.

I was recording sonar more then fishing today

Where's the Humble bridge?

Across the Humble Canal

Lawrence, howze ur transducer working now that you moved it?

It crosses the a canal on Vermilion Corp on the Road to Freshwater City. There is a definite trick when it comes to fishing it.

Caught three yesterday out of four mile all were tight up on grass. Missed a few ( wife) lol


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Great! Just I'm downloading the sonar log now can't wait to see it on reefmaster program. I made 2 passes in. Fearman lake

Seriously? 200 miles on less than half a tank of gas. Unless you have one monster of a fuel tank that's pretty dang good.

i just looked at my gas gauge, the needle is in between the quarter and half tank lines. i cruised 40 mph and under all day. probably would have burned less if i didnt have to put my trim tabs down for a little stretch.

50 gallons. The sun be sippin gas

8 mpg.........Sweet

Hey no offense Speck but I think you just failed about 4th grade math. 200 miles for 50 gallons of fuel = 4 mpg. ;)

5.3333 to is what I got. 200÷37.5 gallons

Alpha what boat/engine are you running cause that is as good a mileage as I get in my skiff and my bay boat is more around 3.8-4.0 mpg.

2104 frontier with a Suzuki df 175

LMAO.....if he has a 50 gallon tank and burnt half.....my math comes out to 25 gallons......but hey I only have a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineer.....but I did sleep next to the wife last night....:*****:

3/4 tanks fellas typo there had a bud light mango-rita when I started the thread. Attachment 88135

That is still awesome.......excellent fuel consumption.....I average 3.8-4 cruising.....2 WOT....

Still awesome....MPG.....200 miles and only burned 37 gallons...... I would be all smiles...:D

Crusing 35- 40. My WOT is 50 on ruff choppy day like yesterday and 53 on an ideal day calm

That is awesome Alpha.....Zuki does make some awesome machine....
You have keeper buddy.....now drive it like you stole it......

F'n awesome


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What's your speed. I can get 4 mpg. Cruising at 3200 rpm at 31 mph


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My speeds are same as my rpms 3000 30 mph 4000 40mph

I can usually match my rpm/speed under ideal conditions but I don't ever seem to be on the water when conditions are ideal.


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Cruising 3500-4000 rpm 34-39 mph....

Cool. My ducer works great there also. When I told the dealer what I had done, he asked that I take a pic and send it to him. Love this forum cuz that's where I got the idea to move mine.

Regarding mpg, 5.333 with a 175 hp is awesome, no doubt about it. The best that I have ever gotten with my 19 Frontier with a 150 Etec is 4.5, but I normally run about 4 mpg. BTW, with your rpm's "matching" your speed, that's about as perfect as you can get to zero prop slippage. Bet you never sell that Zuke :)

Can't wait to get started downloading sonar to send to "Wishing". Awesome project you two conceived of.

Sorry Speck I get how you did the math. I figured he was talking fuel burned and not size of tank.

There had to be a good explanation because us Chem E's don't make math errors....:grinpimp:

All good buddy......and you definitely right....:D

He told me about the program. All the credit goes to him. But I ended up buying the program as well. It's awesome. I fish big lake alot so I want to get that place mapped as well.

more people we can get to record the sonar logs ,the quicker we get vermillion bay mapped out.

alphaman you running a lowrance HDS?

Yes hds 7 touch

what program are you using on your PC to view your logs? I bought the 8HDS last year but have not played around with the logging part yet

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