I'm looking to purchase a Spike brand color c lector [their spelling not mine]. I've checked online and can't seem to find anyone who has one in stock....everyone is out of them, Any ideas where I can find one?
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I'm looking to purchase a Spike brand color c lector [their spelling not mine]. I've checked online and can't seem to find anyone who has one in stock....everyone is out of them, Any ideas where I can find one?
I saw those on Ebay, but I'm looking for a new digital one. The one I'm looking for is made by Spike.
Cray ... those are all the old Lake Systems Color-C-lector units. Spindle is looking for the Spike-it version that looks like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cray
https://www.ispikeit.com/images/product/medium/6.jpg
Personally, I don't hold out much hope of finding one at any commercial outlet, seeing as how even the Spike-it website says it's "temporarily out of stock" :Doh: And even if it was "in stock" .... at $130 :yikes it's not worth half that much (IMHO).
Sometimes there are some on ebay
I remember the analog ones from magazines growing up. I believe at the time they coated $30. Awful lot of money to a kid back in the 80's
Yeah, and this 20something "kid" bought the Lake Systems Color-C-lector when it first came out, used it a few times & realized it kept telling me the same colors at the same lakes I was fishing, that I was already using. :Doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Sold it and bought the Combo-C-lector (temp & pH added) because the pH & water temps were being highly touted by the TV anglers. Maybe used it a little more than what I did with the Color only unit, but eventually stopped using it because it seemed to be taking away a lot of time spent actually "fishing". Still have it, chucked away with other gadgets & gizmos that were "the thing to have" in their day. Nowadays I let the fish tell me what color they want, my depth finder tells me surface temps, online charts tell me the temps at depth (+oxygen level), and I could care less about the pH (but if I did care, I also have a pH Meter in the gadgets/gizmos storage area, or I could still use the old Combo-C-lector).
State of the art in it's time.
Thanks for all the info. I ordered and old style one off Ebay for $9.00. I want to know what colors are more visible to the fish in deeper water. Just another gadget to play with.
Have you watched this video on colors and what washes out first at what depth? There is a part 2 to it also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQTh_tnJ6c
Think you will enjoy fooling with it once you get it figured out. I have had one for years. Don’t fool with it much anymore but found it pretty useful at times. Especially in our water when it gets all stained up.Quote:
Originally Posted by spindle