I have had another thought: I’m betting you guys are wishing I could get on the water and stop this nonsense!
Do you guys leave your depth finders on at all times? I do, and it doesn’t matter if I’m over 65 fow or sitting in the middle of weeds growing within inches of the surface. I’m all electric so the minute I push off the T-motor hit’s the water and the depth finder goes on. I have read of Pro’s that say they turn theirs off so as not to spook the fish; yet I have caught fish jigging right alongside my transducer. Your thoughts on this?

I turn mine on in the parking lot so the gps will have time to acquire before the boat is in the water.  I turn mine off when I turn off the main power switch back in the parking log.  I could not sit in the boat with the df not on, it would feel like I had my pants unzipped.   The closest I could come to turning it off would be to stop the chart.

I've recently been thinking about getting a cheap one for the little two man bote' t-motor. That way i could see what i'm running over at least going from area to area or just fishing along. I know i'm missing so much by just chunking and winding. I was just carrying on about cutting it off,Pondhopper. When my TR was running, I don't think i ever cut mine off while on the water. Seems i remember Denny Brauer telling me he cuts his off though (or at least he use to) when he was fishing docks or extremely shallow.

If we are fishing flats and I can see the bottom I usually turn it off.