This will be my 4th season with Livescope. The knowledge you gain with forward view sonar is amazing (Garmin, Lowrance & Hummingbird all have it now).
I fish a small shallow low pressured crappie Hotspot. A friend and I drilled out the entire lake and never marked a fish with traditional 2d sonar. Came back the next year with livescope, would find small pods of fish and drill right on top of them, go to fish them and they were gone, scared off by auger. A new forward view scan would show the same school 10-20′ away. Repeat the drill over them, they again again scare off. But the 3rd time finding the same pod and drilling over them they would get use to the auger and stick around and bite. I’ve seen this exact behavior several outings since. With 2d you are completely blind to them, you can drill hundreds of holes and not see a fish, when in fact they are hiding just outside of the cone angle. Suspended crappie just can’t hide with forward view.