Quote Originally Posted by Crestliner08 View Post
Technology is a marvelous thing indeed. However, just think about the old days, when you went fishing for the joy of it. No sonar......leakiy john boat... fiberglass rod and Johnson Century closed face spinning reel. Some hand tied jigs (of your own doing) and the sun on your back. What could be better? I'm just sayin'!
I agree totally with you on this. If the live scope is bad then all the modern fish finders are bad as well. There is a tremendous difference in what the current Solix will display as compared to my 7 year old 999 will display and there is a tremendous difference between the 999 and the first flasher unit I bought.

I have the live scope. I can watch my lure go down and I can watch the fish swim around the cover.s I discovered there are a lot more crappie under my slip than I thought. And discovered when the bite stopped, the crappie were still there, they had just stopped biting.

I also discover that crappie are very shy and will flee from a jig that is dropped into their midst too fast. After a minute or two they will ease back and scope the jig out but it does not mean they will hit it. I also discovered I was jigging too fast most of the time.

And the biggest thing I discovered is just because they come up to your jig does not mean they will bite it. I have watched groups of them leave the brush pile, swim up to my jig and make a circle around it, watch it for a bit and then swim back into the brush. Just because you can see them does not mean you can make them bite.

Personally the live scope is the second best thing I have bought for my pontoon, the first being the Ultrex trolling motor, which is also an unfair advantage. It has not made me catch more fish yet but it has increased the enjoyment of the slow days when I can't seem to buy a bite.