Flasher help

[Lipripper88]

I hate to start another flasher topic but was wondering if I can get some help. Just bought a humminbird ice 35 and I'm not sure how much gain to use. How do you guys set yours when you go out? How thick of line do you want your jig line? I'm new to flashers. Any help or feed back is greatly appriciated. Thank you

[blueultra2]

I turn up the gain just enough so my jig shows up as a thin green line. I try to keep the gain low as possible.

[klbeeks]

I turn up the gain just enough so my jig shows up as a thin green line. I try to keep the gain low as possible.

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[Lipripper88]

If you turn it down that far do you have problems seeing fish?

[Jerms32]

If you can mark your bait with a fine line your fish will show up with a wide line. Like they said lower the gain the better. Mine is set so low that at times it flickers and disappears and the fish mark just fine

[Lipripper88]

Ok thank you guys. I deff had mine set to high this weekend.

[IceJunkie0602]

With the unit off push in the gain nob and hold it. Then turn the unit on.  It will start demo mode.  You can then mess with features and see what they do.  You might of had the wide beam on.  Push the beam button to toggle between narrow and wide.

[fishinfiend]

As stated keep your gain low as possible, fine green line to show your jig, fish will show a red bar you will get use to it as you go

[Lipripper88]

Thanks again everyone going fishing Tommrow to play with it more will let ya know how I do.

[MarshallPrime]

So to go a step further, and I dont mean to highjack your thread, my Vexilar FL 12 has 3 beams 8,12,20 and I have ALWAYS (only 2 years) used it on 12....when should I use the other two?  What exactly does it do? 

I havnt seen much info on this.

thanks so much for help.

[fishinfiend]

I do believe as you go deeper you want to use the wider cone angle 12 or 20 that way you see more as it gets deeper 

[Curt]

I do believe as you go deeper you want to use the wider cone angle 12 or 20 that way you see more as it gets deeper

Actually it is the opposite of that.  Deeper you go the lower degree setting you want.  I wouldn't use 8º unless I was fishing over 40 ft.

[Pan Phish]

So to go a step further, and I dont mean to highjack your thread, my Vexilar FL 12 has 3 beams 8,12,20 and I have ALWAYS (only 2 years) used it on 12....when should I use the other two?  What exactly does it do?

If you fish a lot of 15' and under use 8 as it will then read the fish where you are. If you are searching for fish use 12 or 20 as this will give you the area. Deeper water you may want to use wider cone. Also look on Vexilars web site they give good info to this.

Pan Phish

[wax_worm]

So to go a step further, and I dont mean to highjack your thread, my Vexilar FL 12 has 3 beams 8,12,20 and I have ALWAYS (only 2 years) used it on 12....when should I use the other two?  What exactly does it do? 

I havnt seen much info on this.

thanks so much for help.

The beam numbers are the cone angles of the of the sonar beam.  The bigger the number the 'wider' the coverage you are seeing under the water.  Since the beam emitts as a cone, the higher the number and deeper the water the larger diameter circle on the bottom you finder is looking at.  This link explains it http://vexilar.com/info/choosing-a-transducer-beam-angle-2/

[fishinfiend]

Actually it is the opposite of that.  Deeper you go the lower degree setting you want.  I wouldn't use 8º unless I was fishing over 40 ft.

Thanx, mine has a 12 degree on it, so was not sure

[MarshallPrime]

So I am still confused.  I normally fish under 20 feet of water.  So what is best for me to use?  Sounds like 12 or 20 but still, which is better?


thanks for the link to the website but for some reason i really dont get it.

thanks for walking me through this.

[bullpine]

Sometimes when I am in shallow water with lots of weeds the narrow cone (the one you would normally use deep) works better at penetrating the weeds and giving you a well defined read on your jig and the fish below the hole.  I have the Ice 45 and switch cones a lot to see if one is better than the other for that particular situation.