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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | We don't know your Shield lake experience and background there, so you will have to fill us in.
Guessing here:
If you are watching guides showing how effective this tech is on Youtube or something along those lines and thought this would be a shortcut to finding and sharpshooting muskies randomly, then BNelson is entirely correct, this is tech actually is not only not going to be that useful, it is actually reducing the number effective casts you make during your trip.
Effective casts on intelligently predicted locations and times => knowledge => more fish seen => more fish caught. If you are defaulting to marginal habitat to suit the tech, you are bound to have the consequences that you had. If you are staring at a screen you are not casting into the 4 inches of water you need to to pull out a musky that is there lying in a crease or crevice in the slab but you can't see on your tech. Even worse, you are not casting into the weeds or beside the big boulders or ledges where the majority of muskies are laying - clear rock is not good habitat up here.
If you have all the knowledge (spots, lures that are going, cadence, where fish like to be with wind x and sun condition y), and if you are handy with interpreting 360, then as per Slamr, it then help you make effective casts by saving time on a spot you are very familiar with where a fish doesn't appear like you expect - i.e "The fish we saw yesterday and the day before is not making an appearance, lets scan off this ledge a bit to see if we can mark it, maybe it is laying out in this current seam or on the deep break." Honestly though, even though possible, this would not be a game I would pursue unless taking a break and having a sandwich or something.
If you are not using for some other kind of fishing, then yes, I think not a good investment if solely for sharp shooting musky up here in Shield country.
Edited by Angling Oracle 11/8/2022 12:37 PM
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