Do any of you use flashers?  What are their benefits over other sonar types?

Thanks,

5150bass

I Personally own a LCD, but i have fished with a 1984 Lowrance Flasher. I want to buy a flasher/LCD Unit in the future. Here is why i like Flashers:

1- It can define the actual bottom depth and read through thick weeds

2- You can spot fish from sturcucture easier

Disadvantages, Harder to truly define cover, can only go so deep, Cant see what you just passed, etc.

This is why i am going to buy a combo unit

Presonnaly, I feel a flasher will outperform and LCD in water less than 100ft but I've been using flashers since 1965 and know how to read one.   The only real advantage I find with the LCD is the short term history it offers while fishing.  With the LCD, you only have to look at timed intervals to see what you passed over, it you're not looking at the flasher, you don't have a clue.   If I'm moving faster than slow TM speed, I always use my flasher when looking for bait fish or checking out structure.

Had a Zercom flasher on the old boat and only used it when running at higher speeds. This seemed to work better then the LCD, other than that I would shut it off when moving slow this way I could read the bottom better, as I really didn't get to understand the flasher.