07-04-2010, 06:27 PM
I run a GPS in the bow, console, and stern of my boat and I still use my marker bouys. Somtimes a visual reference is worth its weight in gold. I like using them for a casting reference if I mark a pod of fish, lot easier to cast to that then at a screen[
]. They also make good decoys too. If your around alot of people mark your actual fish with your GPS and decoy the rest with a bouy a ways away, you just have to make sure to fish your buoy every now and then to keep em thinkin theres fish there[laugh].
That dont always work though. I was fishing a tourny a couple of years ago and was on a hot bite right of a small break no longer than 20 yds long. We were in a bay with a lot of other tourny boats. I told my partner that we are gonna cruise out about 75 yds, act like im catching a fish, get the net, do fake netting on the side of the boat that no one can see, throw buoy, then fish the real spot. Well, after this fiasco I threw the buoy and almost as soon as it hit the water BOOM fish on! Uh oh. Two more rods went down almost the same time and I realized I just threw the bouy on a REAL pod of fish. I scrambled to get the buoy in but by that time it was too late[:/]. I had about 8 bows pointed right at me. So much for the decoying!
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]. They also make good decoys too. If your around alot of people mark your actual fish with your GPS and decoy the rest with a bouy a ways away, you just have to make sure to fish your buoy every now and then to keep em thinkin theres fish there[laugh].That dont always work though. I was fishing a tourny a couple of years ago and was on a hot bite right of a small break no longer than 20 yds long. We were in a bay with a lot of other tourny boats. I told my partner that we are gonna cruise out about 75 yds, act like im catching a fish, get the net, do fake netting on the side of the boat that no one can see, throw buoy, then fish the real spot. Well, after this fiasco I threw the buoy and almost as soon as it hit the water BOOM fish on! Uh oh. Two more rods went down almost the same time and I realized I just threw the bouy on a REAL pod of fish. I scrambled to get the buoy in but by that time it was too late[:/]. I had about 8 bows pointed right at me. So much for the decoying!
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