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The only time I'm not running a flasher is when I can sight fish. Thing is not all flashers are created equal when you are talking less than five foot of water. Add vegetation plus agitated sediment to the mix, which is common in many sandhill lakes, and you have narrowed the flasher field to one. A Vexilar. It has low power mode for reducing clutter to the transducer. My observation varies some from sandhillguy. In water < 5' both the pro view and tri beam transducers many times need to be rotated in the hole before I can find the sweet spot and see a jig. I actually have more vision in shallow water with a standard 9 degree transducer. Vexilar unit set on low power mode, the 9 degree doesn't have a problem reading the jig even in 2 fow. Gain turned between 3 & 5 depending on clutter, I will mark approaching fish first in second echo and bottom bounce. It's like normal after that, as the fish moves in on the bait, red burn moves up from the bottom of the vex screen to the level of the bait. Imo the FL-22 with a 9 degree transducer is ideal for Sandhill lakes. Mostly depends on if you fish Sandhill lakes exclusively, which transducer or unit to go with. dc
Dont want to make this a M vs V thing. But my LX-5 has a dual beam transducer (8/20) and the unit works flawlessly from 75 ft to 5 ft deep. At most all I do is adjust the Gain. Thats it-
Thx, Would love to. I'm thinking a little north of Oshkosh in mid-December?
Cool. Meet ya on little Smith, Crescent Lake Refuge.dc
newer vexs w/ 9deg. proview best thing goin right now for this and deeper water then?