Its boat control, its harder than people realize to sit on small objects and hold it in there. With it on a pole or seperate mount you will always be crossing the beam line at angle since trolling motor and Livescope transducer are on separate planes. Sort of like playing shape in pool, you want cue ball running into line with next shot not across the line. My tournament partner has his on separate mount too but no way I could do it like that if I ever put one on my boat.
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