MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
I would go with the FL-8. Since 1989 the FL 8 has help change the way we ice fish. Any Flasher is a good choice. As long as you have one you will catch more fish. and thats the bottom line.
You get more with the VX than you get with the 8 and the VX will be cheaper...I have owned and ran Marcums for 6 years now with no complaints, a former happy Vex owner....
Do you work for Marcum?, or at least compensated for your never ending pro Marcum post?
So your saying 23 year old technology is better than whats made today?..... Do you still use your Comadore 64 then to? The FL-8 is way over priced for what you get,save your money and get the VX-1 with zoom for less and have a better unit....
Can't we all just get a long my flasher the vexcumbird will out perform all of your flashers
I didnt know marcum stopped making flashers. I thought the VX 1 was a flasher. We all get it You Love Marcum, they make a good product. well guess what so does Vexilar. If 23 year old technology is so bad then why does Marcum use it. I still drive a 1968 FireBird, it has alot of power but it wont go as far as my 2011 Durango.
If those are your two choices, I would pick the one with zoom. As for the technology, it was all ripped off from the lil green box from Lowrance in the 70's. It works and there is little difference betwen Marcum and Vex, other than Marcum seems to need to have a ton more power to achieve the same thing as Vex does with much less power. More power compensates for a lesser ability to recieve and translate the sonar signal or for using it at depths over 200 ft. Marcum seems to need more power, Vex needs less to do the same things. The FL8 is over priced for what it offers. For an entry level unit, you can't go wrong with the vx1 for the price and zoom option it offers.
I think what he means is that both marcum and hbird have upped their games putting lots of features on their entry level units like vexilar puts on their upper end units... giving customers more bang for their buck. Vexilar has stayed with the same super basic OLD technology, saying "we were the first"... yeah you were the first, but now you are in last place and relying on your reputation to sell the products. Time to up your game.
More power is for better target separation and visuals, and to run the zoom/split screen display. Marcum vx-1P has 2" target separation while vex fl8 has 2.65" target separation. Marcum lines are as crisp as can be, vex lines are blurry and wide. Marcum vx-1p has zoom which makes fishing WAY more enjoyable for me in water over 10', vex fl-8 does not.
Every vex I have owned or fished with has fuzzy lines, new and old. Marcums have a sharp crisp thinner line due to having 3 colors in the 3 and 5 instead of blending 2 colors like the Vex, both caught me fish don't get me wrong but the Marcums are just easier to read and do show you more of whats realy going on under you than even the top of the line Vex's we run....Just my experience from years of fishing both units side by side...
Set a vex next to a marcum in a dark shanty and you can see the difference plain as day. One is blurry, the other is as crisp. Like HD vs analog. Get a school of bluegill below you and the bottom 5 feet of a vex is a solid red/orange line. With the marcum in split screen I can jig between the individual fish.