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So for those who like to go old school and not use technology.... Do you still drill your holes by hand auger? Do you use a flipover or popup shelter (tech) or do you still sit on a bucket in the open wind..... Just saying.... kinda of contradicting... each to their own. In the past couple years, I have embraced the sonars, I actually find it useful in understanding the fish behavior throughout the day (part of researching my target species). Other options are the lay of a lake (even ones I have been fishing on since I was 10). I now find myself exploring more of the lakes than the common places (easily accessible) that everyone else does (trying to stay away from public so I can enjoy the view). Individual says it's cheating.... Last I check it doesn't have some majestical whistle that calls in fish, it doesn't emit an odor to draw fish in, it doesn't tell you which lure, jig, or bait to stick down the hole, it doesn't make the jig twitch a certain way that's better, it doesn't set the hook, it doesn't reel in the line or fight the fish, it doesn't cuss when the fish breaks the line, it doesn't cuss when the fish is half way out of the hole and it shake the hook. All those things are upto the fisherman with or without tech....
You get makeup points for the spoon and lantern box
Both down imaging and side imaging work just fine on the ice, or stationary boat. Side imaging works too, but you need the special 360 transducer for it. Livescope is nothing but sonar with a much better display. I'm not seeing anything magic about it. I think you should try it before you write it off as unethical. It doesn't tell you where the fish are any easier than a Vexilar with a 19 degree transducer. If that is your reasoning, then you should hate side imaging, which has a side angle of something like 85 degrees., plus the resolution to actually tell a branch from a weed from a rock.
Lol , I give credit for the lantern box , ditch the spoon and get out the spud 😃 Nice pic Bart
Those stoopid spoons.....they went thru the ice from all the heat generated from spinning them!
X2. And ditch the flasher and grab a sounder. Takes you from "old school" back to "primitive".
Omg lmao, , mine hangs on the wall I still have sounders in a draw , and how did we manage without all the cool toys we have now
I still have nightmares about spoon augers