Thread: Question for the anti live sonar folks

To each their own is what I say - with limits on conservation. I've seen folks spider rigs with twelve poles out, two shiners on each pole here in Louisiana. 24 shiners in the water at one time. Another here post 100+ caught for a "church social fish fry". Boats with 10" screens on the console, another two on the bow to catch fish. They then post - Look what I caught!!!

Folks complain about size limits, creel count, etc. on their waters they fish. LS is fine to those that find it necessary to catch what they want. I'm okay with that if that's what they want to do. I don't go fishing just to catch fish. My freezer has just enough.

Randy has it down to what I typically think about the "need" for anything other than a rod and some line and a jig .
if I needed to do it and it was legal I might consider it , but it is really pretty easy to ketch a load of fish right off the bank or dock for me ....
sides all that , we are not fans of depreciating assets in our lives , on the up side , folks using it reduce the learning curve immensely and could likely use what they have learned to ketch fish in the future in scenarios that do not have LS
keep in mind this about that , I am not "anti" anything that is legal , trotline them if its legal and or cast net them .....no worries here , it is much like the spider rigging that folks use to do all the time ,not my speed for sure , but I still tend to think if it makes you happy and its legal go for it

Originally Posted by ALBuzz

the days that the 50k dollar bass boat rolls up on me and my tin can, then tells me where the fish are and proceeds to never get bitten.

50K is a Tin Can these Days!

Try 100K!

Originally Posted by keeferfish

50K is a Tin Can these Days!

Try 100K!

100 is without the 25 worth of electronics and at 100 it's likely on sale as well .....
last pretty nice bad boy I looked at was 110 with no electronics to speak of and on sale for 100
our latest property was bought for $37,500 and likely worth about 100 k 6 moths later ....
of course it won't let me watch fish and it doesn't fly down the lake , but .....
it makes me happy and in the end , happy beats sad by a zillion miles ....for sure

Livescope has shown us here colors no big deal. Presentation is biggest thing, put it on their nose. Catch them on about anything we put of their nose. These jigs made from Walmart sacks as a joke hammer them.

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Livescope has shown us here colors no big deal. Presentation is biggest thing, put it on their nose. Catch them on about anything we put of their nose. These jigs made from Walmart sacks as a joke hammer them.

we used Swedish fish way back when, poking fun at them folks , that insisted we need to use a whatever to ketch them .....
they will bite just about anything if it's presented properly

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Livescope has shown us here colors no big deal. Presentation is biggest thing, put it on their nose. Catch them on about anything we put of their nose. These jigs made from Walmart sacks as a joke hammer them.

I first noticed this ice fishing using electronics, as well as with livescope now. As long as you wiggle it just right and put it where it needs to be, along with fishing the fish and not the bait (adjust your motion based on how the fish is acting/reacting) a crappie will eat just about anything.

Sight fishing is the same way, you can use any jig you want as long as you fish it correctly. I usually pick the biggest bright white or pink bait i have so i can see it well, theyll eat almost every time as long as you fish the fish correctly. I've dropped a jig and nightcrawler on a crappies nose and made him eat it MANY times while sight fishing bluegill and spot a random crappie.


From my experience you can make about 9/10 crappies you see on livescope eat the bait as long as you dont spook them.

Sent from my SM-A516U using Crappie.com mobile app

Originally Posted by Ketchn

Randy has it down to what I typically think about the "need" for anything other than a rod and some line and a jig .
if I needed to do it and it was legal I might consider it , but it is really pretty easy to ketch a load of fish right off the bank or dock for me ....
sides all that , we are not fans of depreciating assets in our lives , on the up side , folks using it reduce the learning curve immensely and could likely use what they have learned to ketch fish in the future in scenarios that do not have LS
keep in mind this about that , I am not "anti" anything that is legal , trotline them if its legal and or cast net them .....no worries here , it is much like the spider rigging that folks use to do all the time ,not my speed for sure , but I still tend to think if it makes you happy and its legal go for it

It seems "need" come up quite a bit in these conversations. I don't know one person that runs live sonar that "needs" it to catch fish. Do we "need" ten rods spread out covering thirty-five feet to catch fish? Do we "need" a ton of different color and style jigs to catch fish? Do I "need" four casting rods to catch crappie? Should we be limited to just what we "need" to go fishing?

For me live sonar is just another tool for finding fish, it complements the other "tools" on the boat. Years ago, my wife came in my shop, one of the screwdriver drawers on my tool box was open. She looked at it and asked me if I "needed" all those screwdrivers? I said no, but some do different jobs than others.

BTW, I fish out of a twenty two year old tin boat and normally launch near where I'm going to spend the day fishing. I'd love to have another bass boat but can't justify the costs that go along with one.