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I have never spider rigged in my 66 years but plan on this spring. I have a second boat set up now but am wondering what kind of sonar ? Would a 360 give better views ahead of the boat or is the new Livescope better ? I usually fish water less than 10 ft deep . My fishing is always in Tennessee on the Cumberland river .
From my understanding, and I was in the same boat this last year on deciding between the two, is the 360 is more valuable for finding structure to fish due to the range you can search. The livescope has a lesser range but more and live detail. Find the structure with the 360 and fine tune the presentation and see the fish and how they react with the livescope.
I have Livescope, but I hardly ever troll, and don't spider-rig. Also, I've never used a 360. So my $0.02 might not be worth that.
FWIW I love the PLS and find it is far more fun to find the fish first, and cast to them, than to troll. I have basically quit trolling. Sorry, I know that ain't much help!
get both. Then you can't go wrong. now that I have livescope I'm trying to convince myself that I really, truly need 360 to catch crappie. I'm in my second childhood now so my toy list wants are getting larger and more expensive with each new birthday. :Rofl
I;m thinking that maybe the 360 would do me better as I am mainly looking for structure ahead of the boat. I know that the newest thing is the livescope . I will only use it when I am trolling. Once the weather warms I will switch boats and start hitting the beds. Now all I need is to find that dang money tree!
If you are looking for structure ahead of the boat then the Mega 360 is the way to go. the perfect world is both livescope and mega 360. search and hunt!
In the future, you will wear a type of X-ray glasses that can see the fish underwater.
X2! I have both, the 360 shows all around the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by ksbassman25
2different tools.
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I have been a few boats in my time and dollar for dollar I would buy a Solix big boy .
of the different units and options out there it covers what I need and want to find and ketch fish .
360 and livescope are cool though no doubt about it .
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I have been a few boats in my time and dollar for dollar I would buy a Solix big boy .
of the different units and options out there it covers what I need and want to find and ketch fish .
Could you list a few of the extra features on the Solix that you feel would justify a 21% jump from the Helix series?
Just curious.
Taz
Tough call on just one system as I mostly fish lakes and only fished rivers a few times.
Been using Panoptix and Livescope for 4 years, basically just a single pole jig fisherman, but I could see the usefulness of the 360 for other types of presentations.
I have casted to open water crappie with good success but have never spider rigged.
The 20 degree Lscope would only have a view of 3-4ft wide with 12-14 rods out in front and would require sweeping the Lscope transducer back and forth to cover a multiple rod spread width.
The Lscope advantage is you know the exact depth and distance to the fish.
I do have a slight advantage as I have the original Panoptix PS21 with 45 degree wide view mounted on the stick with LScope and run 2 Garmin graphs so the field of view and searching is faster.
The new 360 would require a new HBG3 unit so I would need both since I run HBG2 units currently, so that is not happening this year.
Good Luck on whatever you decide to go with.
You will never regret buying a livescope and at least a 10" graph. Nothing else can begin to compare to the detail you will see.
If I could afford it I would have both.
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With the livescope you know 100% sure theres a fish there when you see it.Havent been around the mega 360 though but have the regular 360 and livescope.With the regular it would take alot of time to pick out fish unless the spot is loaded down with them.Quote:
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I have Livescope and am waiting for Humminbird to release the Mega 360 to VIP. Even though they are totally different systems, I can see where the Mega 360 will be much more valuable to me as primarily a troller. Pulling at speeds of 0.5-2.5mph, the Mega 360 will allow me to find structure and examine it before I get to it at trolling speeds. Livescope doesn't allow me to do that at trolling speeds.
I am leaning on the 360 as I think it would help me find alot more structure. Would a Helix Gen 3 be okay? Also it would have to be a SI ? I put out alot of crappie beds but I am not looking for those but others. I can't really afford a Solix but could probably manage a Helix 7 or 8? Thanks !
It will have to be a Helix GN3. I would assume any GN3 will be compatible with the Mega 360 but I would make 100% sure before I pulled the trigger.
Spiderrigging and structure is not a good mix in my opinion.
Maybe if you hover over it. But it you run up on it it hangup city.
Livescope finds fish and bait in open water and on structure.
Go to YouTube and search livescope spider rigging. See what's there
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I believe Techno2000
Won’t be long until they will come up with headgear type screen like the people use to play video games and fly drones with.
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Current 360 works with any Ethernet capable HB unit ...Quote:
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MEGA 360 only works connected to HELIX MEGA+ G3N or SOLIX MEGA+ G2 ...
Rickie
If you wait a couple of months you will get a lot better answers to your questions as more will have the mega 360 as it’s released and you will see their comments on mega 360 vs live scope. If I was a tourney fisherman, I would have to have both tools for the advantages of finding fish. If you use SI and DI and like using it, then Mega 360 is going to rock your boat!
Since I gotten a livescope I only spiderrig with 2 poles. One on the right and one on the left. I scan left and right and when I see a crappie I steer one rod in the direction of the crappie and adjust the depth of the bait to the fish. That's something I don't think you can do with sidescan.