Garmin livescope tile

You are using livescope. If you unplug your livescope black box, your panoptics icon should disappear. Just remember that there are many “panoptics” settings that can be adjusted which will affect what you see and don’t see with livescope. The size of your screen will affect what you can see as well. A smaller screen means less area to display anything you are looking at. Think of it as looking at an iPhone screen vs an iPad. The larger screen is able to show more detail. There is a steep learning curve to really learn livescope/forward facing sonar to use it to its potential.

Jim, I really appreciate the response. Yes, when I flip my blue sea switch to off the panoptix tile disappears. I installed it myself, so I thought for a minute that I had done it improperly. Thank you for your explanation. Im gathering that I should get a larger screen and learn to use the settings correctly to utilize livescopes full potential. From one 737 driver to another, thank you and fly safe

Mike – check out the Garmin section of IDO, lots of good info about Livescope posted in there… You can also find tons of content on youtube that “EXPLAIN” the different settings and what exactly they do, you just can’t take the setting numbers somebody uses and plug them into your settings and expect the same detail, every lake/river is different…

It’s an investment but check out Tom Huynh University for a great online course on learning how to use LiveScope and interpret what you’re seeing.

Joe and Karry thank you so much for the responses. Ill make sure to check out YouTube tutorials and Tom Huynhs university course. The boating community is the best. Lots of helpful dudes on and off the water

X2 on Tom Huynhs classes,it taught me a lot. i had the basics down pretty good but the class helped me perfect it

i’m not familiar with Tom Huynh, but if its a paid for class I would go the free youtube route first, more than enough good content out there for free…

lastly, the head unit quality absolutely makes a difference in what Livescope looks like and also how smooth the onscreen animation is. The Echomap 93 units are great for their low pricepoint, but the image quality doesn’t come close to a better unit like an Ultra 106 or a GMPS86xx… You get what you pay for…

I am a strong supporter of Tom Huynh and his fishthu course. If you’re choosing to spend $2500 and up for forward facing sonar setup with the intent of catching more fish, why wouldn’t you spend the time and money for a course taught by a professional fisherman who is arguably one of the top walleye fisherman in the last few years. His course can teach you more in a few hours than you would probably learn in a couple years as a recreational fisherman.