Well, I am sold on the value of a fish finder.... 5 months of fishing off the kayak and I've never caught a legal-sized fish to take home. Today, my first day out with the new Cuda 250 s/map and i found a spot where the sand bass were hanging out and hitting swim bait like crazy. Within about an hour (and that includes a lot o fiddling with line and repositioning in the current) I had 4 sandies and a 14" rockfish, all on swimbaits. The sandies were ALL taken on a "bleeding mackerel" pattern 5" or 5-1/2" big hammer with "Pro-Cure" crawfish gel - they would not hit any other colors I tried. The rockfish was taken on a "rainbow trout" color big hammer with frozen squid. The Sandies ranged from 13" (my first) to 19-/2".
Since these are the first keepers I've caught on the kayak, I figure that the cost per pound of the fillets is somewhere around $1,500 per pound, not including my time.
