MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Get the vex, I have that model and love it, also have a hook 7, great for the boat but doesn't compare on the ice.
With a flasher, if you look away for a few seconds, you can miss that blip that sniffed and swam off.
Who looks away?
I do regularly...
Especially when your checking for flags
I have used a lowrance elite 4 chirp for the last 3 years and it’s worked well for me. Though I did upgrade to a garmin panoptix ice this year.
Hi Seamonkey84. I too use an elite 4 chirp and get alot of interference from other lowrance units operating near me. Any advice you might have or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
At ryan vI was fishing in 4 fow and weeds it works fine.. on my elite 4x and x67c .. some adevise for you there is more postive reason to go with the lowrace over the vex just a heads up! Like :1) past info of how fish are responding to your lure presintation.. you know those old polygraph machines they use in movies for lie dectors? they have a needle that detects your pulse and movements like a nervous twitching? in your hands etc and transfers it to paper.. as they ask questions the needle jumps as the paper rolls out of machine.. the person giving the exam circles ware it jumped to go over more question about that topic they asked there.. the paper rolling off gives past history just like the lowrace screen .. the very right edge of my lowrance is current data.. like that of a vex flasher so if the fish comes off bottom as your jigging you see a line rising towards ware your jig is .. if you stop and the fish settles back to bottom or leaves and you jig some more and it moves back in what does that tell ya?? the fish are attracted to movement can't pick this up on this stuff on a vex screen very easy.. all vex screen have is current data no past data.. to look at and think about ..2)lowrance and man over board way point marking.. we use this to mark rock piles and structure wile in the boat or even a kayak fishing.. as you see it you pass over use the arrow curser to back up to it.. and then push mark to mark the ward abouts of the structure.. perfect for summer fishing ware you need to mark trenches ware salmon lay to cool off.. or even structure crappie get in to in winter.. but not summer high sun days.. and come back to it in winter.. can't do that on a vex.. 3) mapping software of bottom contours.. the gps soft ware of the Stryker 4 sucks truthfully your better of with lowrance then a Stryker 4.. the bottom contours can be show every 1 foot of drop.. to help aid in finding fish this is a big thing.. you can even pull up on your lap tops a map to inspect for the lake planned to fish.. and look for ware you should try at home according to markings and bottom contours.. before you even fish.. the Stryker 4 don't offer thIs.. all the Stryker 4 has is a blank white screen last I heard and un up dateable.. basically a waste of money but does have a screen like lowrace on the fish finder mode.. Garmin has some really good features but like the vex is a little useless from the out of date technology my only complaint if I don't use in my shanty is the screen slows down on my lowrance in -12*f and similar weather cause its a lcd screen liquid crystal display.. but in a shanty heater on no problems at all.. Also the lowrance has on my x4 versus the x67c.. has a bottom zoom 200khz versus 86kHz only basically single mode versus split screen dual screen mode.. shows great detail of bottom in 200kHz but shows mid and surface in 86khz.. same kind of zoom a vex has.. I use a Lowrance ice transducer there are ways you can use the regular boat ducer on ice choice is yours.. the only problem I have with boat ducer is the boat cable is 15 to 20 foot long ware ice ducer is 5 foot max.. and cable management is much easier.. One of my buddies has a fl8 some times kicks him self for owning it. . other times he dont.. cause it uses out dated technology.. your buying outdated tech.. for top dollar when he could have for same price got a lowrace.. he don't worry about the screen getting cold on his vex but that's all he has going for it.. plus don't have the other features the lowrace offers. Of course my finder us 10 yrs old the newer lowrace are even better..
Start with both units with No Surface Clarity and No Noise Rejection. On ONE of the units, begin changing the Surface Clarity and Noise Rejection between low/med/high until you figure out the sweet spot. I use two Elite 5 HDI's in the same shack all the time. Also an Elite 5 HDI and a Marcum M1. While there will still be a little bit of interference, it is perfectly usable.
So have you decided on a unit yet?Keep it safe! JDL
Don't jump to buying some times mistakes happen.. best advise I can give get what you want and fits what you want! Heck my finder is so old it don't have gps I have a hand held gps that goes ware finder goes. But any way check your pm box.. there was a sales flyer I got today I am sending to you ryan v. Just remember all have their pluses and minuses.
No problem will keep a eye peeled for a lowrance 5 if I can find one in time..
I don't like the new advertising of the hook 2 models the only ones that come with the gps mapping is the 5 combo.. model with no x designation.. so the 5x model has gps but no mapping capeibilty.. according to lowrance Web site.. the 4000 lakes map with split shot sonar is 299.99.. if you can find that model at cabelas?? I have $10 off a $40 on or more purchase. I will give thd coupon to ya ryan v threw pm if you want it? I th8nk it good till some time around febuary 20th?? I am sure if you want it let me know? So I can pm you it.. but try it out first like you were saying earlier see if you like it and want it?? https://www.lowrance.com/lowrance/type/fishfinders-chartplotters/hook2-5-splitshot--us-inland
Do you have a kayak or boat etc?? I would get a ram mount my self and either mount it in a bucket or etc.. there are ways to make a boat transduecer work... till you can buy the ice ducer and adaptor for ice ducer maybe next year pic up the ice ducer and adaptor.. most people will set there flasher on a bucket any how that's why I mounted mine on the upper rim of a bucket.. now I can sit in a chair and look at screen wile hole hopping around.. if needed. And if I fish my flip over i use a ram mount rail mount to mount it to a shanty pole. So in my one man I have room on ice for my feet.. I use a 11 sq ft one man so really small on space.. Tell ya the truth you get the 4x or 5x with the plain simple gps is wasting your money! Reason I say this on their Web site it says you cant up grade the gps mapping.. from the one that have a standard gps.. like the 4x and 5x to a mapping gps.. trust me those counter lines will save you a lot of time on walleye crappie perch pike etc.. fishing ..you ever read the book ice fishing secrets ?? In that book it explain how to find the fish by the depth of lakes and contour features.. after a While after reading it fishing become so easy.. and your winter catch rates go up..