Its like an underwater camera that "sees" through even the muddiest waters. You attach the transducer to your TM shaft and you point it with your foot where you want to look. Effective range for me is about 65 feet. I can see my jig and fish to that distance. Resolution is best under 40 feet though. Here is a video I made last Saturday on a lake in Oklahoma. YouTube Air temp was 19 in the morning with a high of 34. That was the second day in a row with those temps. Water had dropped to the low to mid 40's like a rock. I was targeting single cruising fish on 10 foot flats and along the shore. Fish in this spot where 2 to 8 feet deep. Biggest fish are by themselves and much shallower than I ever would have anticipated for this time of year, but using livescope has opened my eyes to what fish are actually doing where they actually are. Fishing this winter has been spectacular for me. I am fishing using entirely different tactics and in new areas. Lately I find a flat or an area adjacent to a channel (sometimes right in the channel) using my Lowrance console finder that has scattered BIG fish, then drop the livescope and start "sniping bogies". In order to get these fish previously I would have had to spider rig, but, many days though that would not have worked either. Often I have to get the fish to turn and look at my jig and hold it in front of them still for a considerable amount of time before they bite. Some days I have to get them to turn and look a period of time then pull it away from them quickly to get a reaction bite. You have to be able to spot the fish put your jig on his nose and give him the presentation he wants. You simply need live scope to do that. By the way its not panoptics. Panoptics is live technology but with sonar images. Livescope is live technology with down or side type imaging. Check out my youtube channel for more of my livescope vids. YouTube