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Thanks. It does have an inline fuse. So is it better to go directly to the battery?

fishinfool wrote: April 21st, 2025, 8:10 am You might consider wiring it directly to the house battery. Of course you will want a fuse or circuit breaker for circuit protection. The radio's on/off switch should suffice.

I connected it to an empty 30 amp fuse on the fuse block and and the other lead to a ground terminal.

Thanks everyone. I ended up purchasing a Standard Horizon GX1410GPS. I have a good Shakespeare 4' whip antenna from a previous boat that's been laying around in my shed a few years. I bought the GX1410GPS mainly because it is compact and I have limited space on my bayboat. Now I have to figure out ...

Thanks I will get a good antenna.

I currently have an old Uniden Atlantis 250 that I use on my Cobia 174 bay boat. 99% of the time I fish the St Marks and Apalachee Bay. The other day I was grounded on an oyster bar. If you heard of that, yep, that was me. I was able to hear the Coast Guard on my radio, but they couldn't hear me ...

Low tide was about 1130a.m. High tide was about 5:30p.m. Weather was clear and about 60F. In the morning the water was dead calm and clear. No fish biting! About noon the wind picked up a little, the tide started to come in. MirrOlure was what they wanted in the river near oyster bar. Came home with ...

We all know why the cost of everything is going up. If I go on my rant here, I'll surely get kicked off this site. I'm gonna have to use my kayak more instead of my boat.

First, let me say I'd like to see more fishing reports here. Wife and I went fishing at the oyster bars of the St Marks River, in the bay an on the flats yesterday. Windy, about 8-11 mph. Learned my lesson there. Only caught 2 maybe 6 inch trout and a blowfish (puffer). Water was kinda choppy. Used ...

Fished in the bay east of the lighthouse. Low tide, lots of floating grass. Fished in 2-5 feet of water. Caught several small trout on Gulp and popn' cork. Top water and suspending lures dragged in grass. Buddy caught a sail cat and two legal trout, 15 and 17 inchers.

Bought a used Hobie Revolution 13 a few months ago. Haven't used it yet, but plan to. Only places I 'm familiar with to put in is the Lighthouse and Wakulla beach. Going out in a boat tomorrow with my wife.

I don't care if Dick's Sporting Goods is giving stuff away for free. Dick's doesn't exist to me. Shop at American sporting goods stores. You know, the ones that believe in the U.S. Constitution and our freedoms.

Good report. Keep posting.

Went fishing with the wife on the flats east of the Lighthouse. Caught several short trout, 3 keepers and one 13" flounder. Legal trout were 15", 16" and 17 12". We were using mirro lures minnow lures and white gulp on popn' cork. Caught the flounder on the bottom on a white gulp with chartreuse ...

You don't.

No need. There's no fish.