Garmin Live scope plus or Mega 360?

[Macsimus]

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[Quillback]

I'm sure you guys know this, but I use my sonar to tell me where they ain't as much as it tells me where they are.  Look ahead can certainly help confirm where they ain't as it extends the range of the water you can search.  When I am deep fishing, I want to find them, then I can get down to figuring out what they want.

Reminds me of a Babler saying:  "If they aren't there, don't expect them to mysteriously appear".

[fishinwrench]

15 hours ago, Quillback said:

I'm sure you guys know this, but I use my sonar to tell me where they ain't as much as it tells me where they are.

I'm sure, that just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they ain't there. 😉

[Champ188]

Grab up them scopes and get on out there in the middle of the ocean, boys. Big-bag potential in shallow water is growing with every ka-ching of the cash register. 😁

[Seth]

On 4/13/2022 at 3:38 PM, abkeenan said:

Not knocking anyone for buying this type of equipment. No doubt it helps catch more fish and is the latest and greatest out there. But at what point does it stop being fishing and start becoming a video game? I think we spend enough time glued to a phone, computer, TV or tablet screen as it is. Now to do it while fishing? Ugh. 

Saw plenty of guys using it this past weekend. Make the cast. Stare at screen during the ENTIRE retrieve. Look up for 1 second to recast. Repeat. 

Guess I’m getting old and crotchety at 40. Wish they’d ban A-Rigs and Live Scope. 

I have couple year old Garmin units with panoptics on console and bow and don’t really use them much to be honest aside from getting depth and temp. I think reading all of Champs posts over the years has turned me into a bank beater. 

All that said I think you’d be silly for not going Garmin. They appear to be leaps and bounds ahead of the field in sonar stuff. 
 

 

Not sure if you've been living under a rock or what but anglers have been video game fishing LONG before Livescope became a thing. Drop shotting Kentuckies and vertical jigging brush piles for crappie has been going on forever with 2D units on the trolling motor. Livescope and other FFS has turned it in to a horizontal approach now instead of just vertical though.