Whether you're for it or against it, this is something to really think about. 

 

 

Others have echoed the same thoughts.   The technology is proving that most of what we thought was true is not.  Using the technology will teach you more than you ever imagined about fish.   
 

It can also help you know what the fish are doing on a given day.   One guy fishes a point for a while and doesn’t catch anything.  He leaves thinking the fish are not on points and asked himself where they’ve moved to.   The next guy fishes the same point,  but has FFS and can see the fish following his bait but not biting.  That guy is more in tune with where the bass are and how they are acting.  He has the opportunity to learn how to better catch them.  
 

To each his own but I want to be as informed as possible.  To me the mystery of fishing is just another name for fishing ignorance.

Some day I will get a forward facing sonar.

 

Right now I'm still learning and perfecting my down and side imaging, finding cover and structure off-shore, and catching fish away from the bank.

 

I am my own worst enemy. I can remember the dock, or stump where I caught a big-un back in the day...and believe that fish will be right there, the next time I am on the water.

 

Have to keep reminding myself that fish are predators, they move around, they do different things. I need to constantly improvise, overcome, and adapt.

I have mega live and use it.  

But I've been sight fishing for the last 20 years.  I often fish the St Lawrence for smallmouth and you can see the fish in a lot of shallow water environnement.  This is summer fishing for free roaming fish, not fish tied down to a nest.  It's very very different.. like saltwater fishing for bonefish.  

 

When we don't see the fish ( and I do that to ) we are like a hunter taking a pot shot at a tree because he saw a buck there yesterday.

 

 

Last year was my first full

season with Livescope.. it’s completely changed the way I fish.. and last season was my best season in recent memory as far as quantity and quality..

Last couple of weekends a big contributor to the day was just using Livescope like regular sonar, but faster and not driving over them. I could see very quickly that there was lots of life in the area that I was in, or not. And then fish accordingly, but not fish for specific fish. Huge time saver, covering water without casting.