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Reply With QuoteActive target with the Carbon with the high resolution screen . Rode about 4 hours today all I did was mark fish and where to go back and find them.
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Live scope is an advantage for tracking larger fish "if " you have the time on the water to master the technique. Way to many fun fishermen are not spending enough time with a good side view and some throw out buoys . Fishing against the clock in tournaments is where ls really shines especially on big fish . I have friends that can load the boat with sideview . You must "be on the water to master these units " , period . Way to much whining about nothing . Heard the same when sideview came out . Wait till 360 Panoptics comes out ls will be history . jmo.
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Active target with the Carbon with the high resolution screen . Rode about 4 hours today all I did was mark fish and where to go back and find them.
Coastal Carolina enjoying the peaceful easy way of life.
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Love this world of high tech stuff. I think more than killing the crop , (Over fishing) its make fishing fun again. For the record a lowarance HDS will run off 9.2 Volts. LOL Reason I rode yesterday was my connection on my graph battery didn't let that battery charge and it was down the last time I went fishing. Old minn Kota charger it just shows full not the two battery's separated but the picture on that graph ran about a 100 yards. i was flipping out at all the fish. Going back Monday ready for war. LOL
I'm one of the guys that keeps very little. Growing up fed my family on fish lot of times. Today I have the blue tooth hearing aids jamming off Pandora from my phone, mama and I are always in competition but its always in fun. We only keep what we can eat. I'd say 70 percent of the time its a catch and release fishing trip. Traveling all my life gone, its just being out there I enjoy but this high tech world has lit me up as to the challenge of catching them now. My views most feel the same way but livescope and active target sure make it fun.That was down scan. Have that on the trolling motor and on the dash. Other than livescope and AT side scan is the best feature these units have .
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Agreed. Thats why I said it was just my opinion, nothing else.
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If all goes well i will soon reach my 87th year of living here on earth.
In 1970 i was living in SE Pa, and was invited by several friends to go on a Quebec fishing trip for Walleyes and Pike.
They had been there numerous times prior, and had always hired an Indian guide.
While the guides knew the area very well, they really werent much help when it came to the fishing.
What surprised me was that we could be in the middle of a very large area of water and the lures we were trolling were snagging the bottom.
The water might only be 2 or3 ft deep and being dark stained you wouldnt realize it till you were hung up.
So for a Christmas present that year my wife got me a state of the art green box portable fish finder made by Lowrance.
It was a flasher type unit as they all were back then and was basicly only usefull for finding the water depth.
But thats all i wanted, so i could keep the boat in deep enough water to keep the lures from snagging on the bottom.
A year or so later i was sitting in a barber shop waiting my turn while reading an outdoor magazine.
There was an article written by a man by name of ( Starnes ), it was a regular colunm written by him every month and entitled (Starnes at large ).
That was the main problem, idiots like him shouldnt be left to be running around loose.
Anyway he predicted that due to these black box devices as he called them, the fish would very soon be completely anilated.
Now that was over 50 years ago, but the fact is the fear of that happening was alive and well even then.
My personal opinion is that the current techknowledgy will be more affective in deeper lakes than it will in the shallower ones.
And it might get to be an issue that the fish commissions might need to be looking at.
Some people cant afford a boat either, so those who can could also be considered as having an advantage over others.
The next 50 years might prove to be interesting, and fish finders might be the least of it.
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We’ll this doesn’t fare well for those speculating about crappie population and booing those that use live sonar. Look forward to more studies with actual data.
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so if I get a boat and a ls set up , my little 10.5 crappie will go up to 10.8 inches , oh my here we go again .....
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Awful lot of money for .3 of an inch
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