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Offline whoay

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #60 on: Jan 06, 2015, 10:35 PM »
lx 6 and ice troller go out with me
lx 5 back up

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #61 on: Jan 06, 2015, 10:38 PM »
Wife and I both run LX7s

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #62 on: Jan 07, 2015, 07:26 AM »
fl8 se in gentz pack.Happy as can be with it.
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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #63 on: Jan 07, 2015, 07:37 AM »
Just added an LX6 to the arsenal.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #64 on: Jan 07, 2015, 07:42 AM »
Old fl-8 does everything I need. I get more fish than some of my buddies with 18's.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #65 on: Jan 07, 2015, 06:57 PM »
I borrowed my buddies Eagle Fish Eye, just like yours last year.  It worked well enough to find what I was looking for, and then after that I decided I'd hop on the bandwagon....got myself an LX7.  Still tweaking it, but so far so good.  A question for the few people who have more than a few flashers - why?  Are you going out with a lot of people and use them as loaners, or do you change up flashers to suit your need or location?

Offline SoftSpot_716

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #66 on: Jan 07, 2015, 08:12 PM »
Main unit is a LX-9
Light hole hopper unit is my first ever unit and that is an old marcum lx-1
Had a marcum showdown 5.6 dual beam that I sold to my fishing partner last season.
And well this year I wanted something new to play with so I ordered up a marcum pan cam system and  an rt9 combo pack. Figured the deal I was offered on them both was still far far less than the actual retail of just the rt9 so why not give it a go. The rt9 will also be a third portable screen on my boat in the spring summer that will link up with my lowrance go free wifi and mirror my sonar and structure scan. So more of a dual purposed unit for me.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #67 on: Jan 07, 2015, 10:10 PM »
Just bought my first one. An ICE 35
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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #68 on: Jan 08, 2015, 07:54 PM »
FL-22HD on a Genz Box with a 12 degree (this is my main run and gun flasher)(use the others once I find the place I want to set up the house at)
FL-22HD Ultra Pack with Tri Beam
FL-20 Ultra Pack with Tri Beam
FL-20 Ultra Pack with 12 degree
FL-18 Ultra Pack with 12 degree
Fish Scout Double Vision (FL-20 with Fish Scout 800 Underwater camera in the same pack)
What is the point of having one that you find a spot with then use a different one? I can see if one has gps unit and uses regular flasher so u would have 2... I run lx7 or lowrance hds5 (which can do it all)
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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #69 on: Jan 08, 2015, 08:00 PM »
Just got a flx28..first one for me ... used it twice so far... let my wife use it for a few minutes and felt blind without  it   ... lol

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #70 on: Jan 08, 2015, 08:01 PM »
Just got a flx28..first one for me ... used it twice so far... let my wife use it for a few minutes and felt blind without  it   ... lol

Offline BassOn

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #71 on: Jan 09, 2015, 05:22 AM »
lx7 and lx3 as a backup

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #72 on: Jan 09, 2015, 07:09 AM »
My first flasher was a Heathkit that I built myself way back in the 1970's.  I graduated to an inexpensive humminbird portable LCD graph for open water, but had never used anything for ice fishing until two years ago when I pulled the trigger on an LX-7.  WOW, what a change in the whole business of ice fishing.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #73 on: Jan 09, 2015, 07:14 AM »
Fl8 and lx5

Offline jethro

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #74 on: Jan 09, 2015, 07:49 AM »
'Bird Ice 55
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Offline SpitzoMT

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #75 on: Jan 10, 2015, 03:22 AM »
Well, I've now got two.

Marcum Showdown 5.6 for past three seasons. Now my backup.
Vexilar FLX-28 Ultra Pack that I bought myself for X-Mas. Used it yesterday & love it so far.


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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #76 on: Jan 10, 2015, 09:59 AM »
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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #77 on: Jan 10, 2015, 01:17 PM »
I have a humminbird 385 and a lowrance elite 5  love both of  them personally i will never go back to a flasher.  find that i prefer a graft so much more 

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #78 on: Jan 10, 2015, 02:28 PM »
fl-20 and m68c, both are on pro-packs.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #79 on: Jan 10, 2015, 02:30 PM »
fl-20 ultra pack.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #80 on: Jan 10, 2015, 06:50 PM »
Just got a Marcum Showdown 5.6 Dual Beam.   Love it! 

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #81 on: Jan 16, 2015, 10:28 PM »
I just bought a Lowrance Elite 4 HDI Ice Machine. Going to try it out first thing in the morning.

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #82 on: Jan 17, 2015, 08:29 AM »
Two flashers in my arsenal:

Si-Tex FL-8
MarCum LX-5
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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #83 on: Jan 19, 2015, 07:56 AM »
MarCum LX5...Love it!

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #84 on: Jan 19, 2015, 08:06 AM »
Vexilar fl12
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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #85 on: Jan 19, 2015, 08:58 AM »
Marcum VX-1 Pro

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #86 on: Jan 19, 2015, 11:25 AM »
lx-9 and lx-5 here

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #87 on: Jan 19, 2015, 11:29 AM »
Humminbird Ice 55 Love it!

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Re: What Flasher is in your arsenol?
« Reply #88 on: Jan 26, 2015, 04:37 PM »
 ::)I have 5, one for me and the rest for my 4 kids or for my kids' buddies or my buddies who doesn't have a flasher (or won't buy a flasher since they know they can
borrow one for me  ::)

1) Marcum LX5 - My primary one.  Love the power and dual beam.  It does create interference when I'm around others.
2) Marcum LX3 - Used as my personal back-up, general purpose for the kids.
3) Cabelas VX1 (made by Marcum) - Kids/Loaner unit
4) Vexilar FL8SE - Kids/Loaner - Gets the most interference when used with the Marcums.  Does not get interference with HBICE35 due to Humminbird's different frequency
5) Humminbird ICE35 - My third choice, a bit noisier than the Marcums and Vex.  Gets the least interference when used with the Marcums/Vex

The LX3 and FL8SE were bought from the bargain cave at Cabelas when the store opened here in Utah late 2005 at a deep discount.  I've recently replaced the original batteries from the LX3 and
the FL8SE.  I was surprised at how long they lasted.

 



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