Live Imaging Sonar Effectiveness

[ifsteve]

Spent the last two days fishing a couple of lakes. All floating lines and indicators. Guy had Garmin Livescope on his boat. First time I have been on a boat that had that. Didn't spend much time looking at the screen but when we stopped in a potential spot and scanned around for fish it surely cut out us stopping for 20 minutes to see if any fish were eating. If we didn't see a fish or two then we just moved on. Seemed to be an effective tool for locating potential spots to fish and to not waste time fishing dead water. But that's a pretty limited sample size for me.

Any of you guys using Livescope/Active Target/Mega Live?

 

[Paul_]

I’ve never used it and have nothing against people that do.
Personally I have no interest in it. It takes away some of the mystery of fishing for me.
But then again, I probably only believe the above because I currently don’t have the cash to get one… edit that, prices have really come down… hmmm

 

[Buzzy]

I'm not using Livescope, I just "graduated" to a Garmin Striker 4 from my Fishin' Buddy 120. I remember quite clearly the day I first used a portable sonar (Fishin' Buddy 110 - downlooking only) and several comments my friend Sam made that were something along the lines of "that's cheating", "NO way I'd ever use one of those things".......... (Sam now uses sonar.)