Navionics (the chip) has the south basin… however it’s lacking in detail. It will get you to the general depth ranges though.

Dan Baker wrote:

I haven’t used Thorne Bros or DH, but from reading the descriptions on the the Thorne page this is my best estimate.
Powernoodle ~ Bullwhip
Quiverstick ~ Fusion
<strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>Panfish Sweetheart ~ Quick Tip, though the Quick Tip seems to have a faster tip
<em class=”ido-tag-em”>Perch Sweetheart ~ Precision
<em class=”ido-tag-em”>Walleye Sweetheart ~ Power Precision
Walleye Sweetheart Medium-Heavy ~ Commander
I haven’t gone through the DH site for descriptions. From all I have heard, Thorne makes a great stick. I am a Tuned Up Guy so of course I believe our rods are the best. I would recommend getting your hands on all of the products and see what feels best to you.
Dan

I own almost all of these. The precision fishes a bit lighter than the perch sweetheart. The walleye Sweetheart Med-Heavy fishes quite a bit heavier than the Commander… much better suited for larger lipless cranks, jiggin raps, and more backbone.

Having a line counter reel is the ticket… then you can look at a dive curve for the crank you’re running and give yourself a good starting point. At the end of the day between line, lure, speed, and chop it’s always going to be trial and error… Let out until your ticking bottom and back up to your desired height off bottom. Once you get dialed in for each day, the line counter comes into play with easily repeating again and again.

Wow, that’s some great work there!

I don’t have experience with those exact units, but just got back from running 4 LX7’s all within 8′ of each other and had no problems. Keeping your gain/power as low as needed to see your jig will help eliminate interference… cone angles at the narrowest setting if adjustable also helps to minimize beam overlap and picking up too much of your neighbor’s business.

Winnipeg is unfortunately on the way out in a big way. You will continue to see photos of big fish (just like you do on any other major walleye fishery) because the local businesses and outfitters are trying to hang on to the last few years of the business boom as long as possible… truth of the matter is Winnipeg was/still is the most mismanaged walleye fishery in modern day commercial walleye fishing. Watching what has happened to Winnipeg over the last 5 years+ as the regulations caught up to the resource (with absolutely zero response from the governing party to change netting regulations) would make anyone sick… fisherman or not.

Hi Chris,

Do you get down around the cities at all?

How much you pick up laterally will depend on depth. For example, with a 20 degree cone angle the diameter at the bottom of your cone in 10 FOW will be roughly 3.5′. Go to 20 FOW with the same 20 degree cone angle and you’re at roughly a 7′ diameter. On the LX-7 you can switch your angle/beam down to 8 degrees (I’m sure Vexilar has a similar option) which would give you roughly a 3.25′ bottom diameter at 20′ deep… All that said, if you’re fishing 20′ and under it’s pretty easy to adjust placement of your ducer and cone angle to isolate your hole/jig showing on the screen… as you get deeper and your cone laps underneath your other holes you will see other jigs, however by using your gain/power adjustment you can tune them down and/or out to the point that it’s easy to read which is which.

I’ll second the one is better than none… you won’t regret either decision. For what it’s worth I run the LX-7 because I think it does it’s job the best (I’ll never be brand biased – after all nobody pays me).