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And for open water, if you're in a metal boat fishing for muskies gotta play Metallica really loud. Game changer... I actually know a guy that believes this (not me necessarily). Though when we fish from his boat, he does play Metallica (plenty loud) and we most often catch fish (usually more than one).
PRIEST!!!!
Putting it out there now after another month using the scope. Some fish under some conditions are 1000% detrimentally affected by the scope. No, I am not going to sell it ‘Cord;)
I caught a dozen perch yesterday in about 20 FOW with my Livescope on. I always use it in forward mode and I routinely see schools of perch, crappies, and blue gills working their way towards me, seemingly unaffected by the Livescope.
I would like to again state that I don't think any possible sonar effect is comparable to drilling holes, or just walking on ice with cleats. That said, opinions such as yours do not really prove anything. You have an observer effect going on where you can't possibly know if the fish are effected by the sonar in any way. The only way you could say that is to watch the fish with a camera, which itself might draw in fish out of curiosity, then turn on your sonar and see if they do anything different. Even in open water, you are in a boat, which itself is surely a greater disturbance than the sonar.As far as I can tell, there is no true way to test if sonar effects fish in a lake. The only legitimate testing I've seen show fish can not hear at the very high frequency that our fishing sonars operate, or even people, and yet, we can all hear the clicking/static type noise our transducers make. It's not the true frequency we hear, but it does make an audible nosie, and if I hear it in air, I can guarantee fish hear it in water.
I have a bud that seems to think it bothers occasionally,
Ok Tom, whatever you say. I have eyes, see what is happening and see it happening with other users across the US. The more often anecdotal evidence occurs and is observed by more and more people, at some point it will just become a fact and wont be debatable.
I guess that's easier to do than admit they suck at fishing?
I posted a link to the actual science and guys ignore it.
Oh I read that stuff you posted. I still see that the Livescope affect fish under certain conditions.