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Location: MN | I have livescope, so your mileage may vary slightly.
When casting deeper weeds or structure or open water, I use it in forward mode with range set to 100-120 ft. I can see bigger baits out around 100 ft and I do try to follow the bait in, but that's not always possible. It takes a combination of managing where you are casting, making slight adjustments to the transducer, and watching the screen carefully. Wind and waves can be an issue, and maybe not every casts stays in the beam, but I try.
Personally, I don't really like perspective mode (presumably scout mode for you) for anything. It is sensitive to aiming (you can easily shoot above or below them in deeper water), fish look much smaller, I have a hard time seeing baits, you can't tell the depth of the fish, and I can't see fish nearly as far away as forward mode. I could see using it in shallowish water without any cover - let's say a 10 ft deep sand or mud flat or the area just outside a weedline. There you might be able to survey a good sized area and if you run your bait a couple feet down you're relatively close to them no matter what. I used it last fall a little bit - looking between weed edge and breakline with it pointed to hit the bottom. I can still use forward for that though, and side imaging generally tips you off if you're cruising searching such areas.
When I fish shallow, it's generally either very shallow (<5 ft) sand/gravel/rocks or there is some kind of cover. I don't use livescope at all for that kind of fishing. Weeds are self explanatory, and in the shallow sand I've not been able to use it effectively. I could just be doing it wrong, but I haven't been able to see very far even pointing the transducer flat and having it submerged roughly half the way to the bottom. I don't really consider 20 ft of viewing to be of any use, as you can see follows even on dark nights in that shallow of water. If I could see a fish 60 ft away sitting there pointing a specific direction, that would be another story, but I haven't been able to do that up to this point (in shallow water). | |
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