Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>fishthumper wrote:</div>

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
My son wrestles for north branch and I coach. He is 5th grade but wrestles 6th grades typically due to his size. He is very tall 10 year old. Try to keep weight under 125 but he will weigh in up to 130.

He’s 10 and weighs 125-130. He must be a tall 10 year old. I Wrestled 119 my Sr. year but could have Wrestled 112.

He is 5’9. Tall and skinny. He gets wrapped up in giant pretzels lol

Semi-retired coach. My younger brother was built like that. Best advice I can give to a long skinny kid is to teach him how to ride the legs and use his length in every position. With the longer leverage he doesn’t have to be the strongest, just know how to use his length.

Hey wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Blackcats06 wrote:</div>

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Tom P. wrote:</div>
For locating fish hard to beat the Mega 360. Bottom hugging fish IF they are moving and you pay attention you will see them on 360. If stationary not as likely unless they are suspended off the bottom.

So is there anything out there that is great at finding bottom hugging fish that may not be moving that can be used to cover lots of ground in a reasonable time frame?

Not to sound ugly but I’m curious why you would want $3k technology to find super negative fish? Why waste time on them?

Walleye spook so easy especially early ice. You would be surprised how many fish you will scatter by drilling a hole near their face.

Walking over the top of them with ice cleats can send them bolting away.

I don’t know much about 360 but I fished all last ice season with livescope. If you want to use livescope on ice like you use SI on open water. You will be very disappointed.

Where I fish, just because they are on the bottom and maybe not moving does not mean they are negative. I get to ice fish one week a year and for the most part struggle to find fish. Once I find them I can always get them to bite, thats not the problem. So being that I struggle to find fish and I only have a week I want to cut down the time I use to find fish, so I’m on top of them more than just wasting time cutting holes and not locating fish. The week I get is usually in February and not early or late ice.

I have never used either in a boat, heck I don’t even own a boat.

Can you explain to me why I would be disappointed with livescope on the ice? Can you really not locate fish with it?

Thanks

Sylvanboat wrote:

Searching v seeing. My vexilar FL8 can “see” fish belly to the bottom.

Yes with my vex i can see fish on the bottom too. I want to find the fish that are not directly under my vex

Tom P. wrote:

For locating fish hard to beat the Mega 360. Bottom hugging fish IF they are moving and you pay attention you will see them on 360. If stationary not as likely unless they are suspended off the bottom.

So is there anything out there that is great at finding bottom hugging fish that may not be moving that can be used to cover lots of ground in a reasonable time frame?

Hey was accurate on what I want to do with it. Locate fish, bottom hugging fish mainly (suspended fish too), as quickly as possible. I will use every other feature the product has to offer but those are secondary as I have a vexilar.

The mapping portion intrigued me because most of the lakes I fish do not have any maps associated with them.

Netguy, I believe I have seen a video on mega 360 that they said you can change the time it takes to make a “sweep”. I think the preset is 8 seconds but they said the faster or slower you make the sweep the different picture you’ll get.

Love all the advice and comments you guys have. Greatly appreciate it.

The issue with the vexilar is that you’re only looking down. I want to look forward in all directions.

The mega 360 says it will make a map in each hold if you want it too.

I wasn’t thinking about livescope but after watching a video I’m not opposed to it.

Thanks all for the info