11-16-2013, 03:34 PM
[quote RockyRaab]Just posting to say I'm another lover of the Mirage. My ProAngler 14 constantly draws attention on the water, and curiosity invariably turns to envy in the lookers.
The biggest advantage I see is the silence. I think fish soon learn that the hum of an electric motor passing overhead is not a good thing. The rhythmic pulse of Mirage fins, on the other hand, may sound like just another fish to them. I don't know that, obviously, but I can vouch that you can pedal right up to visible fish and they don't panic. I've actually bumped slurping carp before they bolt.
Do beware that a number of Mirage drives were stolen from a Hobie trailer this summer in SoCal. They are serial numbered, so it might be simple to learn if a unit is "hot" or not.[/quote]
Just to elaborate on this, you do not use a Pontoon with and electric motor so you are guessing. I do and everything you can do in your Mirage I can do in my electric powered pontoon. I have noticed I do spook surface fish with the movement of my fin, but the motor have never been an issue if ran under the surface and there is no noise that I am aware of. Just like the wind scooting across the water.
To catch fish under me or next to me, I simple turn the motor off. Not because they can tell the sound, but because I don't want to move out of the area.
With same fish being caught several times, I can't really give them the intelligence to distinguish the hum of an electric motor.
Just the other side to this coin.
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The biggest advantage I see is the silence. I think fish soon learn that the hum of an electric motor passing overhead is not a good thing. The rhythmic pulse of Mirage fins, on the other hand, may sound like just another fish to them. I don't know that, obviously, but I can vouch that you can pedal right up to visible fish and they don't panic. I've actually bumped slurping carp before they bolt.
Do beware that a number of Mirage drives were stolen from a Hobie trailer this summer in SoCal. They are serial numbered, so it might be simple to learn if a unit is "hot" or not.[/quote]
Just to elaborate on this, you do not use a Pontoon with and electric motor so you are guessing. I do and everything you can do in your Mirage I can do in my electric powered pontoon. I have noticed I do spook surface fish with the movement of my fin, but the motor have never been an issue if ran under the surface and there is no noise that I am aware of. Just like the wind scooting across the water.
To catch fish under me or next to me, I simple turn the motor off. Not because they can tell the sound, but because I don't want to move out of the area.
With same fish being caught several times, I can't really give them the intelligence to distinguish the hum of an electric motor.
Just the other side to this coin.
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