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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I can see a distinct advantage to using a flasher for stationary fishing, like ice fishing, as the fish entering and exiting will be there and gone while you watch it constantly. But for any moving application a LCG has all the advantages.
I can't think of one thing a flasher can do better than a graph on a boat, and quite a few where the graph has the advantage. When you are running a boat on the waters I fish where you can run into driftwood, deadheads, and rock reefs coming out of deep water to almost the surface a locator will not save you if you aren't watching where you are driving. If you are watching where you are driving you will miss most of what a flasher will display but on a graph you can catch a quick peek at the chart and see if anything interesting has gone by. Plus you have infinitely more control of the display on the graph. Not to mention the advanced things a graph can do, like chart record and then save waypoints to spots on the chart after you are off the water. Try that with a flasher.
I started using a flasher in about 1968 and ran them for a lot of years. I knew flashers inside and out, and I don't miss them at all. Now the LCG's have almost the resolution my old paper graph had with ten times the ease of use. If you want a unit to double as an icefishing unit then I'd go with the flasher and suffer while in the boat. Otherwise in my opinion there is no reason to ever have one on a boat. |
