First time out 2020 season

[papadarv]

After several months of Chemo treatments, bi-weekly lab and Dr. visits my Leukemia cancer went into complete remission allowing my first time on the lake this soft water season. What a joy it was to wet a line again. My son picked up a 2019 18 ft. Tracker, Helix 9 Si/Di, Lakemaster Chip, Minn Kota Ulterra 80 W/pilot auto Stow/Deploy. What an awesome rig. After ½ hour or so trying all the Helix 9 and Ulterra features we turned on “follow the contour" at 19 FOW on the Lakemaster contour. Sonar water depths varied 14’ to 22’ tracking the 19’ contour. I turned on my Navionics boating app track to compare the two maps. There are slight difference between the two but not enough to claim one better than the other. Was a pleasure to just fish instead of manually tracking a contour. We marked a bunch of fish at the circled contour on the map. Spot Lock held the boat in that exact spot for an hour or so while we caught and released an abundance of 4" – 6” crappies common size on Coon lake, Anoka Co. Next trip will be a mid Sept. fall trip to Ottertail & Clitherall lakes. Can’t hardly wait to br back on the water.

[Kettle]

Papadarv what fantastic news!!!!! I'm very happy to hear how well it went and that you're back out fishing!

[Mike89]

congrats and that is great!!!  

[ANYFISH2]

Congratulations on your progress.  I pray continued good health.

[fishingstar]

That's great to here. looking forward to many more inventions in the future.

[leech~~]

Great news Papadarv, God heard your prayers and all those that were praying for you. Keep on building fun stuff.  

Edited August 18, 2020 by leech~~

[Borch]

Awesome news!  Glad you got a few fish.

[Wanderer]

Love your post @papadarv!  Wishing you all the best!