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Online Services for Anglers
The more I write about marine electronics, the more often I hear the question: Isn’t all that technology unfair to the fish? But I think that paints too simple a picture of recreational angling.Not...
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Minn Kota Debuts the Ultimate Trolling Motor System – iPilot Link
Minn Kota has taken its iPilot bow-mounted trolling motor to remarkable new levels of effectiveness and convenience with the iPilot Link, introduced today at the ICAST fishing tackle trade show at the...
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Panbo: CHIRPing Bottom All the Way to Bermuda
It's a rare day when someone calls to say he's sending marine electonics screenshots that gave him goosebumps! The someone was Peter Braffitt of Gemeco Marine and Airmar Technology, and while he...
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Panbo: OneNet, NMEA finally creates a marine Ethernet standard!
Yes, I have known something about this for a while (because I promised not to write about it), but it's purely coincidental that NMEA is announcing OneNet just after we once again discussed the crying...
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Seeing Both Sides
In the September/October issue of Sport Fishing, my electronics column focused on side-viewing sonar. I reported that I’m giving both Humminbird and Navico side-scan units a trial run in my home waters...
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New Personal Locator Beacons
Anglers who’ve heard about or seen pictures of a handheld device called an AIS SART (automatic identification system search and rescue transponder) — introduced at the 2011 Miami International Boat...
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Side-Imaging Sonar
Side-scan, or side-imaging, sonar has always intrigued me. Perhaps that’s because I’m a scuba diver, and I’ve experienced the underwater world in three dimensions. So when I try to wrap my mind around...
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Autopilot Trolling: The Electronic Pair of Hands
Autopilots can become great electronic tools for trolling anglers. They simulate another pair of hands on the water that can free up a captain to make changes to a spread, build a new rig or even just...
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Sounder Sizing
A fish finder is a little like a stereo; the matching transducer is like a set of speakers. Buy a better, more powerful stereo and speakers, and you usually can drive louder, crisper audio. The same...
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Structural Support
The thesaurus should list “trade-off” as a synonym for “boat.” If I’ve heard the phrase — “but what about … ?” — once, I’ve heard it enumerable times when discussing vessel features. RAM Mounts...
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From the Captains: Buying Your First Electronics
Capt. Terry Nugent, Riptide Charters, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, riptidecharters.com Electronics: Raymarine e-Series Types of fishing you do: Charters for tuna, stripers, offshore Your advice for...
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Buying Marine Electronics: Video Links
Most marine-electronics manufacturers have a page on their website or a YouTube channel dedicated to how-to videos for their products. Here are some of those page links for the manufacturers and some...
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911 on the Water
Safety isn’t sexy. Anglers never clamor over the latest color in a personal-flotation device. Boaters don’t compete to see who’s first to use digital selective calling. I mean, do you ever show off...
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Plugging In
Buying marine electronics for the first time — whether you’re a seasoned angler or novice — can be research intensive as much as it can be exciting. Now, I realize “exciting” might not be the quickest...
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Stay Internet-Connected On Board
[Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.]Sometimes, I have a hard time being so connected. I want to turn off the constant input, take a boat out 100 miles and drift through the...
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Garmin Announces New Point-of-View Action Cameras
Garmin has introduced its first true HD 1080p action-camera series — the VIRB —, which will be available for purchase in September. The camera itself is IPX-7 waterproof, so it requires no housing for...
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Volvo Penta's New Glass Cockpit Simplifies Boat Handling
If you’ve been hankering for one of those fancy pod-drive fishing boats you’ve been hearing about, there’s a new trick from Volvo Penta that makes them even more attractive by making boats easier to...
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Satellite-Phone Market Expands with Globalstar Resurgence
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)Fishermen who navigate to remote areas depend on satellite communication to connect with the outside world and, more important, to summon...
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2013 Marine Electronics Awards Announced
Judges from the marine-electronics industry and a national boating-writers group revealed their picks last week for the top 2013 products in 10 categories from fish finders to software. The National...
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