Thread: Garmin Live scope

I finally purchased one 2 weeks ago. Its pretty expensive but awesome. Here is a link to a vid. I have the echomap plus 9 inch screen which does not allow for me to record from the unit so I have to record with my phone. This is a single standing timber with about 20 crappie on one side. You can clearly see them come out and attempt to and successfully take my bait. Its short, but shows the capabilities of the technology quite well. My line that you can see is braid 8lb equivalent. The jig is BG baby shad 1.5 inch. Bigger crappie you see are 1.5 lb. By the way, I am selling my 1.5 year old Humminbird 9 inch Helix now that I have this new unit. You can find it in the off topic section.

Nice video Fishers!


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Do you still need use side and down image to locate your fish or does the live scope work as a stand alone unit?

Thanks for posting your video, all info helps.

I still cruise with My Side Imaging looking for structure and fish from my console Lowrance unit. But if I'm in an area with a lot of structure and fish I just use the live scope to look around. It's also great for chasing schooled and individual fish that are just cruising the area.

Originally Posted by Lonnie84

Do you still need use side and down image to locate your fish or does the live scope work as a stand alone unit?

Thanks for posting your video, all info helps.

Here is what you see when you are stationary and point your livescope at something. You can see you have great resolution. This is a tree with aprox 30 crappie on it at 8 feet away. If you look farther out, at 25 on the bottom you will see a school of shad. I did not have to drive over this tree to find it and get the image you see. I was in an area of scattered standing timber, I saw this tree while while searching from a stationary position. I snuck up to it with the trolling motor staying about ten feet away and pulled this fish off with a ten foot rod. I have since switched to fishing a single 12' Pro angler rod (Thanks Redge!) for the longer reach. Sorry for the upside down pic, if somebody is able pls flip it! And pls let me know how to do it myself.

Here you go

Cool stuff Fishers ! Thanks for the posting...

Originally Posted by TimY

Here you go

Thank you very much. Would you mind sharing how you flip a pic? I have tried flipping it on my computer before I post it and it always reverses back to the original when I post on this website. Thanks

Chris I just save the picture on my desktop then open it in photo viewer. I rotate it on photo viewer and when I close it , it saves the rotated image. Takes about 1 minute

I have been using the LiveScope for a couple of months now. It is great for keeping your bait at the desired depth, you always know exactly where the brush pile is without tossing a marker buoy and you can also place your bait on the nose of those finicky fish that just do not want to bite. I have recently started using the LiveScope to follow schools of large crappie that I find with the side scan. The biggest issue is I find myself watching the graph too much and not fishing.