Tiny,

"and those dudes that guide on texoma charge like $550 and usually end up just being a 2 hour trip where their clients don't caqtch but 3 to 4 lbs fish and they learn nothing for their money."

Can you tell us which "dudes"? That was a pretty open ended shot at guys who guide on Texoma and not your normal attitude on this forum. The guys I know who guide for trophy catfish bust their butt and spend 7 to 9 hours trying to put you on that trophy fish and will answer any question a client has and try to explain everything they are looking at or trying to find! The only reason I even responded is I do not want people that read this to think all the guides on Texoma are that way! Tiny, you have a great deal of knowledge and most people really appreciate when you share it!

Tiny I'd like you to call out. Or let us know who these "Those dudes on Texoma" are that your speaking of, just to clarify .
Because I guide on Texoma, have for 16 years. My catfish trips all are eight hours. My customers have boated 90 pounders. As a matter of fact I have a customer that boated a 92 pound blue on rod and reel while on one of my eight hour trips.
And have never sent my clients home only catching 3-4lb. Fish. And if so they'll get a redo trip on my dime.

So I guess my point is I along with several other seasoned Texoma catfish guides is that we'd appreciate not being lumped in to a broad statement like that. Our business can be challenging enough as it is. Thanks.

I never even saw your reply... I was responding to Txmedic. I have the SD card sot but the file wont open its like some sort of space language on my computer.

wouldn't know for sure ... this is just some of the stories I hear all the time from folks that have taken guided striper trips down there where those striper guides would even catch folks limits for them ... the fee was different but most said they were charged $500 to $550 for a 1.5 hour to 2 hour striper trip where they only caught two to 4 lb fish... once their limit was reached they dropped them off and picked up another group of people. Had nothing to do with catfish guides as I've not heard anything about catfish guides down there except for one that was mean to the folks. So relax fellers ... I was just making a comment about the horror stories I hear about striper guides down there. Never heard of any catfish guides that'd take people out for a couple hours and then get rid of them. I'd think since I've heard so many of these stories that everyone would have known who or what guides I was talking about. I'm sure you guys have heard the same stories about the striper guides down there ... multiple guides operating together or under one banner/bait shop/outfit. Now that I think about it maybe you haven't heard how the striper guides down there do their clients as maybe the ones that go out with those striper guides may not want anything else to do with texoma so they may not seek out catfish guides on texoma thinking they might be the same way or similar... dont' know if that's the case but it makes you wonder if that might be a problem when a group of guides on a lake give the lake a bad name as far as guided trips are concerned..If ya'll ain't heard those stories about the texoma striper guides then I'd bet that's why is because they're probably helping ruin your business or putting some major negative pressure on the texoma catfish guides ... who knows but I just thought it was common knowledge as to whom I was talking about because I'd say close to %50 of my new clients talk about nightmare trips on texoma striper fishing.

cheap.fishin, you always have to have a program capable of opening whatever type of file you're trying to open on your computer ... I'd imagine you'd have to download a log viewer in order to view your logs of some kind and lowrance should have that software available to their customers. It's that way with all files that things produce ... not just fish finders ... you have to have the right program in order to open certain type file extensions .. file extensions is what tells your computer what particular program is necessary to open a particular type file ... like for instance .jpg or .pic is opened with a photo editor or viewer ... can't open a .jpg if you don't have some kind of program that will open jpgs installed on your computer so go to lowrance and find out what program you need to download in order to view your fish finder's log files ... that should be pretty simple to do ... I'll go look right quick and post back if I see what you need. Call customer support at Lowrance and they can tell you what program you'd need to view your fishfinder's logs on your home PC but I just looked for a few minutes and found this info

Insight Genesis FAQs


What is Insight Genesis?

Insight Genesis is an exclusive service of Lowrance that allows consumers to create customized contour maps from their personal sonar logs.

How Does Insight Genesis Work?

After signing up for an Insight Genesis account online, download a simple desktop application to your PC. Use the desktop application to upload the sonar log saved from a compatible chartplotter to an SD card to the Insight Genesis web service. After the Insight Genesis service processes the data, an email is sent that contains a link to the free online web viewer to view the map. Three convenient options are offered to purchase an encrypted download of the map to use on a compatible multifunction display/chartplotter.

cheap.fishin, .. I just called lowrance customer service and there is no program available that you can install on your computer that'll read your sonars log file ...you can read it on your unit itself but the only other option you have is to use "Insight Genesis" which is probably a paid subscription service that allows you to upload your sonar log and their web application will make a map out of your sonar log and then turn around and sell it back to you. Sorry bubbah... I thought they probably had a software that'd let you view your log on your computer but they don't

Draw that is a beast of a catfish right there. Did you catch him

Johnny I can't quite make out the coords on that!!!

Johnny, that looks like a pile of fish there and one monster. Im with tom, share the address!

Lots of the dashes are trees/stumps .this was on lavon several years back prefishing for that brutal cold tournament that we had. Didn't catch him it was a pretty intense cluster of trees and I didn't even set up.

The noise was from running my lowrance fishfinder at the same time in shallow water

Gotcha, I noticed the water temp and figured it couldn't have been anytime recent.

Omg! I remember that tourny....JJason and chase won it. We're we stupid for being out there or what??? U know its rough when Tom and Larry call for an escort in!!!! Wow!

Me and dad and jered and his partner left at like 9 45 and headed to closest mexican food place and ate and killed time waiting for weigh in lmao it was brutal. Once we pulled anchor one time to move to spot two I knew we were done !!!