Livescope…what I experienced this weekend

I have mega live and occasionally see fish sneak up on my vex that I don’t see on my livescope these fish are belly tight to the bottom so my vex is on my jigging pole. this is on soft bottom.

Mike

BAR wrote:

Do you all still use a flasher or sonar with livescope or just live scope. Just pieced together a panopix ps22 for my 73cv and was curious if that was all I needed ro carry or just to locate the fish and switch. Appreciate it.

For me it depends on the bite and day. I do not hole hop with livescope very often. I’ll bring it and my marcum m5 and use the marcum once we’ve narrowed down water and set up if we’re hole hopping around structure.

Ok Hhopper, I’m a hole hopper too-we hop because some holes have nothing, in reality zero, but on some holes the zero is actually fish just outside of the cone, so if you and I were on a lake with just flashers how exactly would you change your approach based on your mega knowlede, the flasher might show you nothing it really might be nothing, you could sit there and get yup nothing.
Then the flasher might show you one fish, I imagine the school to be a blob you know it is a finger, how exactly does that change your approach under a flasher?

tim hurley wrote:

Ok Hhopper, I’m a hole hopper too-we hop because some holes have nothing, in reality zero, but on some holes the zero is actually fish just outside of the cone, so if you and I were on a lake with just flashers how exactly would you change your approach based on your mega knowlede, the flasher might show you nothing it really might be nothing, you could sit there and get yup nothing.
Then the flasher might show you one fish, I imagine the school to be a blob you know it is a finger, how exactly does that change your approach under a flasher?

With a flasher you have to drill multiple holes and check for fish around the area. Some times that’s 1 hole if your lucky and some times it’s 40 holes and 2 location changes. Shooting with live scope you just spin it around and see 80 to 100 feet in front of you at a time. You can see schools and single fish at a time. If you know the fish are around then alot of guys hole hop that area with the flasher. If not, you now can drill holes 100 ft apart and rescan instead of say every 15 20 ft like we do with flashers. Fishing under live scope is great as well but hole hoping multiple holes in a area it gets tiring to move, especially if you know they are around you. I don’t have live scope so unless I’m out with a buddy who does, I pick areas I think are going to be fishy and grid it out then check all the holes, then start fishing. That’s mainly what I do for panfish If it’s a spot I think walleye might be I just find the spot drill a couple holes and sit quietly hoping they come through at the magic hour. Maybe that answers your question? Again I don’t have live scope but the guy I fish with daily that you met on poke has it, so I use it often.

So he was saying to rent a LS because it will inform your fishing when all you are using is a flasher, I get that scaning out 100′ in each direction is a huge advantage just wondering how that might help you on a trip with just your Vex.
For now just waiting for the cost to come down or to win the lottery. Thanks Bear.

tim hurley wrote:

So he was saying to rent a LS because it will inform your fishing when all you are using is a flasher, I get that scaning out 100′ in each direction is a huge advantage just wondering how that might help you on a trip with just your Vex.
For now just waiting for the cost to come down or to win the lottery. Thanks Bear.

Same boat lol. As of now I’m just happy the fishing partner has it. Honestly most the time we fish crappies it’s just a search tool then it goes in the truck.

Only thing I have learned besides ‘I wish I had one’ is that schools of panfish move more than we thought and they can be very spooky. And yup once you find a solid school you can throw down a bunch of holes to 360 them and the thing can go back in the truck. Same boat?

tim hurley wrote:

Only thing I have learned besides ‘I wish I had one’ is that schools of <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>panfish move more than we thought and they can be very spooky. And yup once you find a solid school you can throw down a bunch of holes to 360 them and the thing can go back in the truck. Same boat?

I feel like you just watch videos and say the same poop they do, but not actually teach. So yup you got it thanks

Was on about a 10 acre farm pond last winter – big big pond with mongo crappies . Literally walked 50 yards off the shore and setup on a bucket . Guy shows up unloads his tricked out wheeler on tracks , got 2 graphs on it – one for mapping one with livescope . Auger rack, livescope pole on it , the works . Proceeds to drill holes all over creation live scoping around off his wheeler . Spent 15 minutes drilling probably 30 or more holes . We talk a little – he proceeds to show me all the fish allegedly one direction and off he goes .

I sit tightly . Bite was slow at first , however I’m not moving. While all his drilling and scoping I manage to ice 2 15 inchers . Under the bucket they go . No need to show boat . He comes back says I’m Going to the pond up above this one I think this one’s dead – whatever you say dude . Go ahead you got the advantage not I.

End of the night I’m driving out of the field he’s loading up . Wants to see what I caught . Didn’t believe me I sat in one spot and caught all those nice crappies on no structure .

I’m up in the air on it . I’ve had a buddy sit and tell me to drill holes 14 different directions while he scans around and tells me where they’re at but by the time you get it done 1/2 the time the fish have moved on . Ended the night by just sitting in one spot and doing equally as good .

With my limited live experience, I think Andy brings up a good point. Last time out we found large schools of crappies on mega live roaming the basin, but could not keep up with them. At some point you have to sit down and fish. Hole hopping is not always the answer. It certainly is a powerful tool to find fish, but you still have to catch them.