This becomes potentially problematic in deep water, where catch-and-release isn’t feasible, or if anglers are bucket-fillers rather than selective harvesters. Not only can you use the live-scanner to find the main school and all the little sub-schools, you can track fish movements in real time, indefinitely. Walk off the distance, drill one more hole, and start catching fish. Instead, you can drill one hole and rotate the transducer until you mark blips (signs of life), say 80 feet away.
“There’s no longer any reason to sit in a community hole and wait for fish.
“There’s a potential danger to live-scanning,” says “Panfish” Phil Laube, an exceptional ice angler who uses high-level underwater camera and sonar tools in his endless search for panfish nirvana. Before live-scanning, no one had a clue about basin crappie movements-especially how flighty they become when a few anglers with augers start poking around.”Īt the same time, it’s taken less than a year on ice for many anglers to recognize the dark side to this radar-like technology. “The trick is tracking their movements under the ice. In tournaments, it’s not enough to land on a school and catch a couple, Wilson says. The curtain’s been peeled back, and there’s no turning back.” “Now, we can go out there on any winter day, drill a few holes, do a couple scans with Panoptix, and always find fish. “There’s a lake I’ve fished a lot over the years where once every few winters, you might get lucky and land on a couple crappies out in the basin,” says Ryan Wilson, who won the 2019 NAIFC (North American Ice Fishing Circuit) National Championship alongside partner Brandon Newby. Proof of the power of live-scanning under ice has emerged on the North American Ice Fishing Circuit (NAIFC), where three elite teams have dominated on difficult panfish water.
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