I don’t have the ice bundle, but I made my own using my open water hardware. So the Garmin 1042xsv, my livescope transducer (which has a bulky power supply in my case) some batteries and a home engineered transducer mount.

Its not ideal for hole hopping because Its bulkier than the ice bundle, but I already own a little over 3500 in garmin electronics and I wanted to use panoptix on the ice before I went nuts. It has proven it’s worth a tenfold in open water. I pretty much ignore my side imaging nowadays.

I love it. I can find break lines easier, transitions easier, it can see every line in my fish house if I put it in forward view, which my friends and family appreciate. I definitely see more.

I still use a Vexilar in my jigging hole. As cool as the Garmin is, I get better target separation on my vex when the fish are right on me. Since I try to monitor both/all lines, my garmin isnt focused on any 1 line, thus I will occasionally mark a fish on my vex that the panoptix cant quite see because it’s off to the side.

I’ll consider getting the ice bundle next year for the ease of pretty much everything. My setup is great for a fish house, but its heavy, burns batteries and doesn’t travel the best.

In the end it doesn’t matter when you buy your fishing tech, or any tech for that matter theres always something newer and more advanced right around the corner.