Location: 31 | sworrall - 2/11/2014 8:36 AM
Side Imaging is one of the biggest advancements in my fishing to date. Down imaging shows me exactly what I am going over in perfect relief, so a bunch of branches that use to be a somewhat solid signal is a tree top with a few small fish, etc.
X2 with what Steve said, very well stated!
I would add that having state of the art electronics in an average boat will help you catch more fish than having a state of the art boat with 6 year old electronics. With that said; I'm supremely confident that I have identified and caught muskies using the Lowrance side scan, and as been previously stated, the side scan will also maximize search time too.
You asked for specifics and this past September the Lowrance structure scan pay dividends when I pointed out to what I was confident was a cruising muskie off the starboard side to my friend Phil (there's a bit of a learning curve there obviously), and we both watched the planner boards on that side closely.
We didn't see anything with the boards but one of the reels strangely made 2-4 kind slow dull clicks and if we weren't watching so closely, we would have probably just wrote it off as a weed or something. However, I immediately turned the boat port and canned it just to be on the safe side and bingo, we ended up catching a nice fish that we might not have caught otherwise.
It was one of those defining moments when everything just kind of comes together and afterward we just kind of looked at each other like “did that really just happen?” So, I wholeheartedly recommend you spend the extra money for the cutting edge electronics of your choice… my spotlight scan is back ordered.
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