This news bums me out. Ralph was a great fisherman and a friend to anyone he talked to. And….he gave me one of my all time favorite tournament memories.

Years ago the MWC had a tournament at Castle Rock Lake in Wisconsin in early April. There was a community hole above a train bridge that was holding number of small fish. At takeoff many of the teams headed there first thing to try and catch a few in an otherwise tough bite. Ralph and Bob Probst were fishing the event….out of Bob’s pontoon…and needless to say they arrived a little late to the hole. Upon arriving they dropped the anchor, pitched four lines off the back of the toon and proceeded to fire up the grill and start making breakfast.

Every once in a while they would look up and have a fish on and a debate would start over who was going to catch and who was going to cook. The fish seemed secondary to the true goal.

A lot of what anglers know about fishing at Red Wing is due to Ralph whether they know it or not. Lots and lots of good anglers shared their info with Ralph and he did his best to help anyone he could. I will miss having him around.

Scott

Congrats Brett! Well done.

Headed up there this weekend. Usually the 4th is pretty decent but I haven’t heard much yet. Have you heard anything about the bite?

I hear that Bailey’s is just starting to go decent.

PM me and I’ll give you a report when we return.

Scott

That’s awesome news Jack.

Scott

Congrats on the victory Scott. For those that don’t know the fishing conditions were tough throughout the event. Lots of heavy wind gusting over 40 on some days. Scott did a great job of getting on the fish and staying with them.

Scott Fairbairn

The SI will work on the bow however the picture often doesn’t come out as clear as the fixed transducer on the transom. I currently have SI on both the console and bow and have gotten used to reading both units. The only problem with the bow is that if you are turning the trolling motor (steering) the image gets blurred out. Going straight ahead? Works great.

Someone mentioned interlink. Interlink will allow you to use one GPS antenna for both units and will allow for waypoint transfer to be instantaneous (store on one unit and the waypoint is automatically stored on the other). However, interlink will not transfer sonar or mapping from one unit to the other. In other words, if you want SI in both places you need two SI units with two transducers (transom and bow).

Hope that helps,

Scott Fairbairn

Thanks guys.

More work to do.

Scott

Thanks Bill.

If guys like fishing pool four they would love the Missouri river south of Bismarck. The fish were cracking and are starting to turn into some real footballs.

Scott