01-13-2011, 04:15 PM
Like you said, personal preference is what was asked here and I believe that's what you presented. I also believe, like MichiganNagler, that there is a bit of a delay, but not in the 1-2 sec range, I would guess 1/2 sec the most, which is hardly perceptible in my opinion, but it's there nonetheless. In my opinion, an LED is still faster than an pixel.
I agree with you on the finder giving you a history of what has transpired below, to me though, if the fish marks are on the far left of the screen, the fish is too far for me to entice. What's important to me is what's happening below, especially what's on the bottom. I've trained myself through many hours of looking at that circular face and know exactly what the bottom structure is like and whether or not a fish, especially perch is hugging the bottom or not. Oooh, what's the flicker down there? I am not experienced enough with the TFT/LCD graphs to know if these new units could do the same thing.
I am salivating right now on the new Tri-beam that Vex is putting out, since my flashers right now are all single-beam. The Humminbird does not qualify as a true dual-beam in my opinion. A 20-degree xducer is plenty wide for ice fishing, taking into account the fact that the fishes' angle of vision and the ice platform above severely limits light penetration, thus affects what the fish sees down there. I've found the narrow beam in my HB, as in other units, also reduces interference from nearby sonars. Another advantage of a narrower beam is that it reduces the clutter when fishing in highly structured area (submerged brushes/branches) and a flasher beats a graph in this situation. I've read also on the Vex site that the sonar cone contains side lobes, so the 30:10 ratio on the 20-degree may actually be bigger. Also, target ID and target separation are two different things, but that's another subject of discussion.
Again it's all personal preference and I've gotten very attached to using flashers on the ice and have no need of the history that FF present. Thanks for all the information presented by all! I hope DeadI does not go into coma with all this information overload.
I agree with you on the finder giving you a history of what has transpired below, to me though, if the fish marks are on the far left of the screen, the fish is too far for me to entice. What's important to me is what's happening below, especially what's on the bottom. I've trained myself through many hours of looking at that circular face and know exactly what the bottom structure is like and whether or not a fish, especially perch is hugging the bottom or not. Oooh, what's the flicker down there? I am not experienced enough with the TFT/LCD graphs to know if these new units could do the same thing.
I am salivating right now on the new Tri-beam that Vex is putting out, since my flashers right now are all single-beam. The Humminbird does not qualify as a true dual-beam in my opinion. A 20-degree xducer is plenty wide for ice fishing, taking into account the fact that the fishes' angle of vision and the ice platform above severely limits light penetration, thus affects what the fish sees down there. I've found the narrow beam in my HB, as in other units, also reduces interference from nearby sonars. Another advantage of a narrower beam is that it reduces the clutter when fishing in highly structured area (submerged brushes/branches) and a flasher beats a graph in this situation. I've read also on the Vex site that the sonar cone contains side lobes, so the 30:10 ratio on the 20-degree may actually be bigger. Also, target ID and target separation are two different things, but that's another subject of discussion.
Again it's all personal preference and I've gotten very attached to using flashers on the ice and have no need of the history that FF present. Thanks for all the information presented by all! I hope DeadI does not go into coma with all this information overload.