HUGE FAVOR

While testing my new Lowrance hook 4 for the second time before my kayak camping trip to Hell Hole reservoir this weekend the unit will not turn on. I don't see any way it can't be a defect. I have it hooked up with the fuse holder and I'm getting a full 12v to the end of the power cord but the unit won't turn on or do anything. I was hoping someone had a Lowrance with GPS I could borrow for this trip. I could leave a safety payment of a couple hundred bucks for if something were to happen. There might be a fix to this but right now I'm kind of panicking that this will ruin my trip. Thanks

Did you get any water into the card slot?  Speaking from experience, that will cause the unit not to power up.  You might call Lowrance service number or cut out the Indian call center and call Navico directly.

No, I haven't even taken it out yet. Ive just tested it at home. Yeah I'm going to try some troubleshooting over the phone.

How the hell did people back in the day catch any fish at all?
No kayaks, no fishfinders, no batteries, no cell phones for wx reports.
I hope your FF ends up working in the long run; but seriously, it's not a deal breaker as to whether or not you can fish or catch fish.
BITD we called it fishing, plain and simple.
Now, w/o a FF, it's called fishing blind. WTF?
We called it getting back on the kayak. Now it's called self rescue.
If the FF isn't working; so what?
Enjoy nature. Enjoy your time OTW. Learn to read the water and conditions.
And if you catch fish; GREAT!
If you don't? Would you rather be at work?
Just sayin'.

Yeah I get it, I think the same way for most fishing but im targeting Kokanee and trying to fish a downrigger without knowing the depth at a lake ive never been to is not very practical

You alright there, Mike?

Fish Sniffer Publisher Paul Kneeland shows off a limit of fat kokanee to 15.5 inches he took trolling 22 feet deep at Hell Hole Reservoir.

We decided to go for a short troll in the evening before dinner. We started with the all new Baitfish series Kastmaster toplining on one side, a rainbow trout Tasmanian Devil on the other side, and Excel spoons in red cop car and watermelon on the Canon downriggers at 10 and 15 feet deep. In a short hour we had landed 5 nice rainbows to 16 inches, as well as two fourteen inch kokanee that threw out the rule book and hit the Kastmaster and an Excel trolled at 2.5 mph. We moored the Rogue Jet off the rocky shoreline with our Anchor Buddy bungee cord and went up to camp.

While gathering firewood, I almost stepped in a reminder of the wild nature of this area – a large pile of bear scat! We had a cheery campfire and barbequed a fine meal of tri-tip steaks, corn on the cob, and yams on the fire, and enjoyed the beauty and solitude of the magnificent Sierra Nevada.

Saturday morning, we decided to focus on kokanee, so I ran back to the east side of the dam where we have caught lots of kokes in the past. The water temperature was a cool 58 degrees, and I expected the kokanee to be fairly shallow.

We trolled the deep bank east of the dam, then up to “Waterfall Point”, where several active torrents tumbled down the rocky walls. We didn’t see a mark on the Lowrance XDS 9, and never had a hit. Then we went across the lake, where the powerhouse and inlet comes in from French Meadows, and had the same luck there.

We had caught the 2 kokanee the evening before at the upper lake, so we headed back to the Narrows and put the gear in the water. Soon we were seeing lots of marks at about 20 to 25 feet deep. I assumed they were kokanee or trout, but we couldn’t get them to bite. We trolled back and forth several times with nary a hit.

Then at 1 pm, the Lord threw the switch and the bite was on! All four rods went off and kokanee were jumping all over behind the boat! We managed to land two of the four, and as soon as we put the gear down, we were fighting feisty kokes again!

We must have hooked 25 kokanee in the next hour, and finally were able to boat our tenth fish for our limit. We used Dick Nite and Sockeye Slammer spoons in pink and red behind Sep’s Cannonball flashers, and also had great luck on a watermelon Apex behind a wonderbread color Sep’s Strikemaster dodger.

Sunday morning we started fishing at the Narrows, and the kokanee bite was on again! These fish were bigger and very feisty. We lost several that ripped the line off the downrigger and immediately launched themselves into the air behind the boat, and threw the hook in the process!

We ended up with limits of fat kokanee to 15 ½ inches. The hot ticket on Sunday morning was the new Arrowflash dodger with a hot pink Artic Fox Kokanee fly, all tipped with a piece of shoepeg corn.

We talked to a group of guys that were targeting mackinaw and having good luck. They caught a total of 24 macks in three days, with the largest going about 9 pounds. They found them in the main body of the lake anywhere between 60 and 140 feet deep. After packing up camp, we came across a boat in the Narrows fighting a big fish. As we watched, they netted a gorgeous German brown of about 8 pounds, caught on kokanee gear!

Hellhole Reservoir offers a great variety of cold water fishing for those intrepid enough to make the long drive. For more information, contact the US Forest Service office in Foresthill or Georgetown, or call Willfish Tackle in Auburn at (530)887-0839.

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Mabey this will help some that was from a few weeks ago.  Seems they were not deep then. 

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You alright there, Mike?

He has been out of the water too long. 

Yea tote i guess i fish blind always never owned a FF yet. I do however soak up info from here and there on a place i never fished if its available.   If not it wont stop me and more than not it dont stop my catching. 

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You alright there, Mike?

He has been out of the water too long. 

That will change at Albion.
I just think people spend way too much time and money on having the latest greatest technology when the fish are just as smart, or dumb, as they were 2000 years ago yet people still caught them.
They caught them on far inferior equipment than we have today and the fish were more plentiful and bigger as a whole than today.
I just don't want people to be discouraged from fishing or having fun because they don't have the latest big screen LCD GPS down scan side view FF.
Ever notice my signature? <=>? Less = more. There's a reason it's there. 

Linesidebountyhunter sorry about your mishap but cant wait for your report since you started the thread.   Im die hard trout guy if i had info i would love to help but for some strange reason i have never been there and its not that far from me. Good luck and hope you slay them.   

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Damn Tote i need stop by meet you one day being you live about a mile from me and i drive by your street every morning to work. I like your style.   

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Damn Tote i need stop by meet you one day being you live about a mile from me and i drive by your street every morning to work. I like your style.   

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hell yea yo do! 
Anytime!

Lol ok i will one day after work if your home.    I work at sub sea systems so i go by every morning 655   after i get my cup of joe at the buzz. I am usualy at the buzz about 645 filling my cup to get me on my long commute of 1.7 miles

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