Best flasher for deep water?

[delawareriver]

Last year I got into jigging lakers. My vex fl 20 worked great down to 80ft but when I had to go deeper and switch to the 200ft depth I had to turn the gain all the way up and struggled keeping my jig visible. Even when I did have it showing up good when I was jigging it was delayed a second.  Any suggestions for a more responsive and stronger signal flasher when fishing 80+ fow?

[xtrymefire]

Marcum with a smaller cone angle. Lx5 or lx7

[bigstorm]

I use the Marcum LX6 in 80ft for Perch and have no trouble seeing panfish (tungsten) jigs

[Rugburn]

What transducer do you have on the 20?

[delawareriver]

What transducer do you have on the 20?

I'm guessing 12° off the top of my head, would the 9° make that much of a difference?

[hnd]

i've used my marcum in 70' of water and i could see a 14mm fiskas easily at a 4 or 5 in gain.   an lx5. 

[Rugburn]

http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=263710.0

This is on a sticky at the top of the "fishing with electronics page". Very important to understand this. The transducer is as important as the head unit itself. Hope this helps. The fl20 is a great unit, you should have no problem with the right transducer and a good battery.

[Rugburn]

Being that deep, your bait may have drifted to the edge of the cone angle. And the lag may be a combination of line stretch (mono line?) and distance.

[DR.SPECKLER]

get a proview ducer for that fl20.tribeam set in one of the narrow cone angle settings should work also.even the 12 degree ducer should work without the gain cranked up all the way..sure your battery is good?

[delawareriver]

Hmmm battery is definitely getting old, been 4 or 5 years since I bought it and it definitely doesn't last like it did new bit still get a whole day fishing on a charge. Thanks for the help guys

[LithiumEverything]

I have an fl-18, lx-5, ice-55, lx-9, and flx-28. Out of all those, the flx-28 does a better job in deep water, 80ft+

[hardwater diehard]

9 deg transducer .....or Vexilar Proview

[Fishmon]

The Fl-28 works great in deep water when fishing for lakers.  I also have an LX-5 that does the trick also, but I like the Fl-28 better.  It is easier on batteries.

[yotyfox]

I've had good luck wth my lx5  using the narrow beam.

[chillywillie]

I jig 120-160 feet for lake trout all the time.  My Ice 45 does well at that depth.  I do have to turn the gain up a bit and the jigs are larger but I'm impressed how well it works.