Thread: Garmin Live scope

Originally Posted by TimY

There's a lot of people spending a bunch of money on these units today. Most are still trying to figure out how they are gonna mount the 1,500.00 transducer and keep it out of harms way. If you run it on your trolling motor with spot lock, you better make darn sure when you hit anchor the cable can spin a complete 360 without pulling it apart. I know a bunch of people that pulled the transduce cable apart when the anchor was set. Some don't want a second pole because of deck clutter but have to say Fishing Specialties came out with a mount specifically for the livescope transducer. When you mount the transducer pole on the opposite side of the deck from the trolling motor, you get no trolling motor interference plus no worry about the cable twisting around the trolling motor shaft. It also has a break away mount that connects to the boat the pole runs through that will save the transducer if you do hit something hard. You can run the transducer up to 5 mph when it's deployed. It comes with 2 rubber bases that mount on the deck when you are running across the lake. I does take a little room when it's stowed but if you are fishing its in the water anyway. The whole set up for livescope is around 150.00. Pretty cheap insurance for a 1.500 dollar transducer. You can get the transducer mount for the factory transducer and mount it flat on the bottom and mount the livescope above it on the pole. No interference because totally different frequencies if you run split screen

I'll NEVER put a transducer on a trolling motor again. So easy to deploy and Major improvement of downscan performance. <*)}}}><