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Completely wrong. Mapping and waypoints are both on my phone, still noone has said how sonar history helps at all, and most of my local lakes are shallow so I have no need for compound zoom? (is this where you can zoom on a certain level of the water column? Don't some flashers do that?), and I don't get drunk on the ice.
I'm a proud gas auger user but I have panoptix and can't stand the buzz of a flasher. People use what they like. Gas augers are "obsolete" as well but still plenty being used in my area
I think that there is a lot more truth in this post than many would care to own up to.Some think that fishing is a recreational activity and excuse to get together with the guys. (Flashers)Others think that it is a matter of life and death. (Graphs)Then there are those that know that fishing is much more important than life and death. (Livescope)That is how I see it...
History is very valuable for a couple of reasons. First, I often look away from my sonar throughout the day, history shows fish that came through and left during that time. While fishing suspended crappies it has been incredibly useful. Second, for neutral/negative fish you can see what cadence/depth/etc. the fish responded most to when changing it up to draw a response. Sonar/waypoints on your phone cant be used in the summer to mark the exact location of submerged structure. I run a side imaging Helix so I can mark every brush pile, tree, crib, etc in an area with extreme precision on a single pass over it in open water. Its impossible to do this on your iPhone. Plus it's a pain in the ass to get your phone out every time you want to move when hole hopping compared to pushing a button on the graph.Compound zoom refers to being able to run split screen with a higher zoom near the bottom on one side and a lower zoom above that on the other, leaving only a small portion of unzoomed water column, generally near the surface where there is much less action. Cut, dry
History is very valuable for a couple of reasons. First, I often look away from my sonar throughout the day, history shows fish that came through and left during that time. While fishing suspended crappies it has been incredibly useful. Second, for neutral/negative fish you can see what cadence/depth/etc. the fish responded most to when changing it up to draw a response.
Sonar/waypoints on your phone cant be used in the summer to mark the exact location of submerged structure. I run a side imaging Helix so I can mark every brush pile, tree, crib, etc in an area with extreme precision on a single pass over it in open water. Its impossible to do this on your iPhone. Plus it's a pain in the ass to get your phone out every time you want to move when hole hopping compared to pushing a button on the graph.
Compound zoom refers to being able to run split screen with a higher zoom near the bottom on one side and a lower zoom above that on the other, leaving only a small portion of unzoomed water column, generally near the surface where there is much less action.
Cut, dry
it is like the difference between a tube tv and a flat screen.
Because they are mechanical devices, not computers or digital.Also, because the flasher users possibly don't need that much extra help to catch fish as others, so don't need charting, graphs and history reports to catch the same amount of fish that others do.Technology can be a blessing but it can also be a crutch.
Exactly. Maybe if going county to county, state to state fishing on lakes that I have never fished, locating structure, points, dropoff, weeds, etc. could be helpful. But I don't. I fish basically the same half dozen or so lakes that I have for the past 50 years so I know exactly where that "stuff" is and the general area the fish are in. I just need to know if they are at the particular hole I just drilled. If not, I'm not to far off. Drill another. Bingo. Found them by that little blip on the screen. Going to a lake I've never fished? Either going with someone that has or check near the crowd...usually the former.
I have both graph and flasher... use my flasher over the digital a lot more and I consider myself probably a lot more hardcore fishermen than most that have the livescope technology. Live for it! So what u own is not always a testament to how hardcore you are. This might strike a nerve but I think the panoptix is great technology for some fishermen that had trouble catching or locating fish before or for those that might not have the highest fish IQ.
This might strike a nerve but I think the panoptix is great technology for some fishermen that had trouble catching or locating fish before or for those that might not have the highest fish IQ.
bout time to file this thread under "GRUMPY OLD MEN" and call it a day.
Who's grumpy? 🤔 It's Happy New Year!!!😜
im still grumpy !the site that has been great is sort of turning into facebook with all the drama and bullshat theories.
I think that the "conspiracy theories"are the best part... I don't facebook. Hate Zuckerberg- he makes me grumpy.
i don’t do facebook either.joined for 2 weeks and it was drama and couch fishermen looking for spots..deleted it.
Yup...us flasher guys are beer drinking, dope smoking, shanty sitting, screen staring has beens and wannabes. So how much will a graph increase my IQ to the level of where you're at...which I'm guessing to be about 12? Jk...as much as you were.😉
YOURE GONNA MAKE SOMEOME MADI agree though
Not only that, but were so old and stupid that we thought flashers actually used sonar technology. Guess I spent too many years using Time Domain Reflectometers (TDRs) and OTDRs at work.
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