Let's talk flashers

[slabbacks]

Guys I know I'm new to the forum but it was the need to find out more about a flasher that took me here and several other forums in the past few months.

After narrowing the search down to 2 brands, the M and V I then studied up on them.

For the money and what you get, I went with the LX-5. I was not interested in spending top $ just to have to go back and buy more stuff to do what I needed. Not because I like a Chevy or a Ford but what do I get for the money and does it work.

Now this is from a first time flasher user. The LX-5 came and was ready to hit the water as soon as I pulled it out of the box, just plug the hot wire up. (I did top off the charge just in case even though it did say 100%) After reading the manual I went out the next evening, Did what it said to do and soon found what it said to be fish in 12 fow between 4-8ft.

The lines I saw on the bottom and up 2-3ft was later found to be brush and they showed up as discribed by other users. Plus these never move or vary.

I found that the power output never had to be brought above about 2.5 in order for me to see my jig from just below the transducer to the bottom. I went up and then turned it down until it went away..I then came up slowly until I had a steady yellow line that not only shows my jig but also the swival 6-7'' up. 2 seperate lines.

The controls are easy to master and once set are good to go for that area.
After finding the fish I was able to drop my jig tipped with a minnow and start pulling in crappie..I saw these fish move up and that told me when to get ready for the take. If the fish moved down I saw this and was able to adjust the depth of my jig.

Twice while out fishing this night the lines went away, all but the ones from the brush. I picked up and moved down several slips checking each one until I found the fish again and once again was catching them.

ZOOM: I started by pushing the zm button and adjusted it to read just off the bottom and up 5 ft. If I saw fish come in above that, it was simple to move the zm up some to key onto those fish.

Charge: I like the way you never have to remove the battery and the guage tells what charge you have. If you leave it on charge it will not hurt due to going into a trickle charge mode.

Simple to use: I've never used one but in the first night I was able to pull in fish and know what the machine was telling me.

I've waited to post anything on this unit until I fished several times with it and can say that I'm glad I went with the LX-5. I went out to the same spot the weekend before getting the LX-5 and only took 3 fish..due to this was THE spot I never moved around much and I got tangled in the brush a few times.

Well THE spot was a few more slips down and a short time later a few more down from there. I would not have known this without the unit, plus it is in real time...makes being out on the water fun again. With the unit the next weekend I took 21, the night after that was 16 keeper crappie and a ton of gills on minnow heads (no lost rigs due to the brush..I just stayed up off them)

Is this the best? It's the best for me and what I was looking for. I hope this helps those that have to do the research like I did without putting your hands on one. If you do get a Marcum LX-5 you will not be sorry.

Thanks to all of you that have posted about all the flashers..it really helped out alot.

Just my 2 cents.