Hey guys,
I FINALLY got to do something I have been dying to try at a lake I love to fish a couple times a year... jigging for lakers! I'm already decent at it using regular sonar and "video gaming" it, but I figured with Livescope, I could not only see what was right under me, but I could pan around the boat and look for lakers all around and cast to them. So I was SUPER excited to try this.
Well, color me disappointed, it was not what I had hoped for.
I had my Livescope in downview position right next to the TM with my traditional sonar and I first tried panning around with my livescope mount and I couldn't see anything under or around the boat. To be clear, the bottom is a super flat lake with nothing on bottom so finding the lakers is about as easy as it gets. I tried turning up the gain quite a bit but still didn't really find anything and tried zooming in to the bottom. I then started to focus on the traditional and started finding some fish and vertical jigging them at 40 to 60 feet down. I could clearly see 2 or 3 fish cruising around my jig on the regular sonar (3 snake lines and my jig looking like a heart monitor) but no matter how much I fiddled with the LS, I couldn't see my lure or the fish under the boat. At one point I could see a fish go up to the jig and I got a hit (missed the fish) and the fish went back down and out of the cone. None of that was picked up on LS. The fish tend to cruise these deeper flats around 5 feet off the bottom, so there is definitely separation... it's not like walleyes that have their bellies in the mud.
Now at 30 feet, I could clearly see my jig on LS and see some fish moving around and reacting to my jig, but as soon as I moved out past 40 feet, nothing. In 20 feet of water with forward facing, it was so cool watching fish go after my jigs and dropshot.
Any tips on how to get better clarity and see targets at those deeper depths? I would love to try again next weekend. I am running the LVS32 on an Ultra 126.
Thanks!
Dan