Ryan,

I thankfully have a 13′ garage (separate story) and used a cabling system to wrap the garage with 4′ deep shelves – attached. The sled and Eskimo 3i sit on a lower shelf and I just back the truck in to load it easily – from there I just need the Flasher, rod bag and small Scheels duffle with tackle and “extras”, and I’m off.

Overall I have a small 17g bin for the stuff above and larger 27g bin for the getaway trips such as LOTW. Bins rotate outside for the winter; Flasher and rod bags are stored in the basement.

-Bruce

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I’ve been meaning to post a follow-up on my experience with the DL. I’d had the Helix/Dakota combo out a few times on weekends but had never tested the full capacity – I just got back from the annual 4-day LOW trip and it was awesome. Pretty much lasted 2 full days of fishing. I expect next year that I’ll be able to make the whole trip with two of these bad boys.

-Bruce

Captainpaddlefoot,

The guys in the forum were very pretty helpful to me back in Nov when I was setting my Helix up for the first time. Tim and all above are pretty spot on with things here… What I’ll add is that many of the more detailed adjustments are available when you go to the “Advanced” usermode under Settings. The second thing I do is go to the last tab and hide the views that I don’t want to use. I typically like the split view with flasher and zoom but use a few others too.

Next I make sure that my RTS window is set to “Ascope” for both Sonar and flasher views. For me, I had to bring up the flasher view set the RTS for that, then went to Sonar to set it up. I like how the mark is wider or thicker based on how close to the cone center the fish is or whether it is a larger fish. I also like my sonar zoom RTS window set to Wide to enhance the detail of the “Ascope” setting.

One other item is that while in zoom mode, if you see a suspended fish outside of the zoom view you can hit the up (or down) arrow to slide your zoom to that location. This can be extra nice when you have the Max depth set just below the bottom so your full zoom view is in effect.

What else…? I keep my sonar speed set at or near Ultra. I keep surface clutter very low, and rarely have the brightness above 5. The check mark is the best way to toggle interference/CHIRP settings. Some like the sonar Switchfire set to Max (if deeper than 10′) and the Noise filter Low.

Enjoy!
-Bruce

It is frostbiteco.com.

Found in the description for their YouTube announcement.

-Bruce

I’m interested to see the Frostbite stuff also and hope they do well with it.

I do get the “annoying” comments referenced above, but in general I take in that batch of guys (AP, JonB, Lake Fork Guy, LunkersTV, Chris Bulaw, etc) with a slightly different perspective. I’m 50+ and have plenty of friends in that age range who enjoy fishing in its various forms (particularly ice fishing and spinner trout fishing in SEMN). I hadn’t felt much momentum with fishing in that younger group in my daily life until the last 18 months. I don’t know how many occasions during that timeframe that I’ve been able to strike up a conversation with young family members, or other random people in their age range using the “Fishing YouTubers” as a topic. The one thing all of these guys have in common is a love of fishing, hunting, or generally being outdoors. For that, they get a good deal of slack from me.

My 2 cents…
-Bruce

Thanks Mat Pierce. Wow! I’ll play with some of this tonight – of course with a beverage per peer pressure from Gino ^^^.

I think that the slight change in the new G2 interface (from vids online) and the fact that the menus change based on view is just something to get used to. I do expect to ditch the flasher views after a few outings too.

-Bruce

Nice! Thanks, kayl. I’m so obviously new here…. haha.

-Bruce

Gino wrote:

The first thing I did was print out the owners manual and put it in a three ring binder. I Then put in tabs labeled with different sections. It took a lot of time and ink and paper but man is it nice.

Good call Gino. I’ve been through it once online, but a printed version with highlights and tagging will be better for reference.

-Bruce

Kayl, is there a way to not order a charger? Ex. 0 chargers. I already have a lithium charger.

Thanks,
-Bruce