Quote Originally Posted by johndeere5045 View Post
Well, I'm not a patient man. Been out 3 times with ML. See fish ok , structure ok. Watching the screen while fishing is not for me. Struggling bad with the coordination thing. Whats it worth? Thinking about selling.
Try using it to "find" where the fish are ... in numbers & size ... then fish the way you would normally have fished that spot. Live/Forward electronics don't have to be a "video game fishing" event. It can be used at a distance to find where the fish are, or are not, which is a timesaver over running from spot to spot and fishing them for any length of time before moving on to the next spot.

I understand your "struggling with the coordination thing" statement, as I have a boat that easily drifts with little to no wind. That makes boat control, trolling motor/Livescope direction control, and keeping the bait in the "zone" control a bit on the iffy side at times. Even so, I've found that my Livescope has helped me find cover that my DI unit would have taken five times as long to find, and that's if I was lucky enough to be moving over that spot for some reason or another. It also helps me adjust my direction to avoid running multiple lines over cover when I'm engaged in any of the "trolling" methods I use. When casting down a bank, I'm not really looking for fish, but looking for cover that I might get hung up in, but if there's fish on it I'll work it over a little more than I would have prior to having Livescope. When I can "watch the screen while my bait is in the water", it can tell me what mood the fish are in at that time just by watching their reaction to the bait.