Thread: Garmin Livescope

Originally Posted by alexava

I won’t be spending 2500$. Like above, when they go down I will be interested. I want a better trolling motor first.. but for trolling or spider rigging I don’t know how much it would help. My guess is jigging brush tops. You can pull up to it and see fish or no fish before you waste time on it.

It works great for everything, but the problem with looking for fish with it is you have to stop and put the trolling motor down to use it. It's best to search with a good side imagine then go to the live scope to make your cast or approach if you are spider rigging. It would probably save me a few cast that it takes me to find the brush pile. I can see some cases where it would be very helpful like fishing a stump row where there's 1 or 2 fish on random stumps but most of what I do side image is a better option. I can ride by and scan it in seconds and I know if there's fish there. I'm not looking for 2 or 3 fish very often. I'm looking for the mother load! I will have a live scope one day but for now I'll stick with my lowrance

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Once I learned how to use my Livescope, I very seldom strike out on a fishing trip. It hasn't helped much if the fish are shallow, but if the fish are in 3 feet or deeper, you can eliminate barren water. I've learned a lot about how crappie respond to certain bait presentation and also realized how spooky they are when you approach them.

Originally Posted by Dr Rob

Once I learned how to use my Livescope, I very seldom strike out on a fishing trip. It hasn't helped much if the fish are shallow, but if the fish are in 3 feet or deeper, you can eliminate barren water. I've learned a lot about how crappie respond to certain bait presentation and also realized how spooky they are when you approach them.

I use my side image to find fish and then scope them up. I feel that the perspective mode will be a great tool to use to find them in shallow water. I have not installed it yet on mine but am going to.


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Originally Posted by CrappieFlopper

I use my side image to find fish and then scope them up. I feel that the perspective mode will be a great tool to use to find them in shallow water. I have not installed it yet on mine but am going to.


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Yes I agree that the perspective view will be very helpful. I heard that Garmin is still working the bugs out of the system right now. I’m going to wait until then.


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