Printable View
Has anyone used the Garmin Panoptix? I am really liking the videos i have seen on youtube including one where they targeted crappie. But as we all know videos can be edited and make things look a lot better then they are. Would like some feedback if anyone has used it or seen it used. Still love Lowrance but may have to put a Garmin on front if Panoptix works as well as it seems.
Im running panoptix. Its like a video game for sure. You can call your shots. Money well spent
Well if you put a Garmin on front might as well put one on back. Sucks not having units share waypoints.
I agree Nip but i really want to be able to control my Xi5 with the HDS while i am cruising around looking. I fished with a guy once that ran his XI5 with only his HDS and never left the center console. I was really impressed. That Panoptix looks really nice and i can see it being useful for so many things from netting shad to cast/drag for crappie and even for catfish. Here is the vid that really got my attention. https://youtu.be/cBsdg333KM4
Josh do you have a youtube channel or any clips using it you can message me?
You use 2 units up front or one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh Jones
And what model?
Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk
No I dont have a youtube channel. I can take you out sometime and show you. Im running a 12 inch up front fir sonar and a 92sv just for panoptix
Oh I've seen the video. I thought you were wanting to replace your front unit but you could keep your lowrance and then run the garmin next to it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by swollencrappie
That's pretty cool! I see Scott Martin on TV say look... there he is and I have no idea what the heck he's looking at. It just always looked like a bunch of interference to me.
Got to see Josh's live yesterday. I had no idea what I was looking at at first but he showed me a couple of things and it came to life for me. Once you know what you are looking at it's pretty user friendly. Saw fish under a dock on the other side of a walkway 7 feet out and 8 feet down, grabbed the 10 foot rod, reached over the walkway, dropped the jig, and boom, crappie on!
Ok guys, I've been kind of out of it these past few monhts and just now saw Panoptics for the first time!!! Wow, I'm impressed. Need a little help here with what I need for a complete setup for Panoptics?
PS: I do now have an xi5 and two HDS 9Touchs on my 18' Lund
Cheapest unit that will run Panoptix is the 73cv. Transducer sold separately
Thanks Josh, I had looked it up on their website and found everything including prices. Anyone want to demo one of these I'd sure like to see it on the water!
Well if you're up around Tulsa anr I'm free you can see mine
That looked really cool until I saw the price..... Guess I've got too many hobbies to pay for.
When will lowrance add this to their lineup? Hopefully they will and be able to use the HDS gen 2 units.
Josh I might just give you a call next time I head that way!Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh Jones
Not really. I have never run an ethernet connecting my units. I also have pinpoint antenna on the back above my DS transducer and an external antenna for the front unit above my TM. Not hard at all to mark a waypoint on the back, then confirm with the front unit and mark it there too. I personally feel it marks it more accurately.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNip
If you are running two units sharing WP it makes it a lot more accurate if you put both of your GPS pucks on the front of the boat. Other wise if my console unit puck is at the back of the boat and I mark something and them I go to the bow, the waypoint will be 20 foot off. I have a 20ft cast ring set on my front unit that also helps me know how close I am to a brush pile before I get on top of it.
That is very nice. If it truly looks like that...maybe I could catch one.
Well it sucks for me. I run a bird on back and a lowrance up front. When I'm scanning with the bird I don't want to have to drop my trolling motor every time and remark with the lowrance just like when I'm trolling and mark on my lowrance I don't want to have to fire up the outboard and remark with the bird. To combat this I load each unit's waypoints I marked for that day separately to the PC using a combination of GPSBabel, Humminbird PC and convert to google earth and separate by lake so that I'm not rolling out with units that have a bazillion coordinates for lakes I'm not fishing that day. When I want to go fish a lake I simply covert the saved google earth coordinates for that lake to both lowrance and bird, upload to units and go fish. Saves me from having to mark stuff twice. It can be tedious at times, maybe a little anal and probably a nightmare for most but I get by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper
Attachment 257760
But then I've never had units that could share waypoints and maybe it would be the same blues especially since I'm uploading waypoints to google earth. :dono
well...lets just win the lottery and we can have 3 12 inch units scattered and a 42 inch on the console.....you could just find an old crank phone and find them cheaper....lol
Thinking if I won the lottery I'd have several 15" humminbird solix's on my new boat along with a 360. Lol
lol...and someone to drive the boat hook the fish and hand me the pole.....but wait that sounds like what I usually do every time I take someone fishing....lol
Where do you find the people that can find the fish and hand you the pole? I need a fishing buddy
Attachment 258173
Amazing technology from #Garmin. Panoptix helps me catch limits of crappie nearly every time I go. This school you see is 22ft long and 17 ft wide. I'd estimate this school having 300+ crappie. When I stop catching them, I scan my transducer and know what direction and how far away they went. You truly become unstoppable