11-17-2013, 06:37 AM
Marcum LX-9. Last season, it showed me all of the display styles - flasher, graph, vertical water collumn with zoom and more selectively displayed as a heads up display over high resolution video from the camera.
The blobs of color would have meant as little to me as abstract art, but with the camera, I can lower it to see the structure that would be otherwise left to the imagination from seeing blobs of color. I had no idea of the bottom from that until I lowered the camera to see a submerged tree with fish swimming in and out of it. After seeing a few camera views of different structure, right away I have a good idea of what the other displays are indicating.
Other than the displays, the signal processing is advanced and showing me the fish interaction with the lure as I see the video of the same with the camera. It seems to be quite an advantage.
I still have to learn to use it better because it seems from viewing the fish that they can feel the sonar and I should turn down the power. I haven't been ice fishing enough to figure out that part yet.
One thing new to me that I just bought to try this season is a meter with a digital display of dissolved oxygen and temperature. I haven't even opened the package with a booklet on how to use it, so I'm not able to report on possible advantages yet.
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The blobs of color would have meant as little to me as abstract art, but with the camera, I can lower it to see the structure that would be otherwise left to the imagination from seeing blobs of color. I had no idea of the bottom from that until I lowered the camera to see a submerged tree with fish swimming in and out of it. After seeing a few camera views of different structure, right away I have a good idea of what the other displays are indicating.
Other than the displays, the signal processing is advanced and showing me the fish interaction with the lure as I see the video of the same with the camera. It seems to be quite an advantage.
I still have to learn to use it better because it seems from viewing the fish that they can feel the sonar and I should turn down the power. I haven't been ice fishing enough to figure out that part yet.
One thing new to me that I just bought to try this season is a meter with a digital display of dissolved oxygen and temperature. I haven't even opened the package with a booklet on how to use it, so I'm not able to report on possible advantages yet.
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