Are most people opposed to live sonar?

[Cbump]

@InfantryMP thanks! Jury still out on the tall mount for me. I’ll know more when I get out on the water. Worried now that it’ll be in the way for pitching. We’ll see! I can easily get the 5” riser and swap out if needed. I do like how It looks

[InfantryMP]

1 hour ago, Cbump said:

@InfantryMP thanks! Jury still out on the tall mount for me. I’ll know more when I get out on the water. Worried now that it’ll be in the way for pitching. We’ll see! I can easily get the 5” riser and swap out if needed. I do like how It looks

I think I have seen some that are offset, that may help out depending on your pitching hand. I think I would just take a half step back from the units to pitch and keep the height tall so I do not have to bend over so much to mark stuff. 

[TN bassmaster]

i fish the BASS junior series, yes boats have it. I finished 5th in points in south east tn nation we just got one unit on our boat also happened to be first tourney i zeored, i hate fishing watts bar when the dam is off limits, but i have nothing against it and would love to have it but i would rather have a really nice kayak then ffs

[TnRiver46]

59 minutes ago, TN bassmaster said:

i fish the BASS junior series, yes boats have it. I finished 5th in points in south east tn nation we just got one unit on our boat also happened to be first tourney i zeored, i hate fishing watts bar when the dam is off limits, but i have nothing against it and would love to have it but i would rather have a really nice kayak then ffs

Was it off limits because it was spilling over the top? 

[TN bassmaster]

33 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Was it off limits because it was spilling over the top? 

i dont know but when i cant go there its is basically game over for me

 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, TN bassmaster said:

i dont know but when i cant go there its is basically game over for me

 

I was just guessing because the high school tournament last year where the boat washed over pickwick dam 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I was just guessing because the high school tournament last year where the boat washed over pickwick dam 

holy crap, just googled that ?

 

what a terrible way to go, man that's awful. 

[TnRiver46]

Just now, AlabamaSpothunter said:

holy crap, just googled that ?

 

what a terrible way to go, man that's awful. 

It happened the year before too but not in a tournament 

[Swamp Girl]

Side scanning sonar is emptying the world's oceans of fish. There's nowhere for them to hide. When I was young, Jacques Cousteau would state in his specials that the world's oceans held inexhaustible numbers of fish. Well, electronics made that statement wrong. 

[TnRiver46]

57 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Side scanning sonar is emptying the world's oceans of fish. There's nowhere for them to hide. When I was young, Jacques Cousteau would state in his specials that the world's oceans held inexhaustible numbers of fish. Well, electronics made that statement wrong. 

In defense of Mr Cousteau, there are still fish in the ocean so he wasn’t totally wrong 

[gim]

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

there are still fish in the ocean so he wasn’t totally wrong 

Haha.  Not as many as there used to be though.

 

I'm not familiar with Mr Cousteau lol

[TnRiver46]

Just now, gimruis said:

Haha.  Not as many as there used to be though.

True, but not yet “exhausted”

 

there sure are plenty more sharks than there used to be 

[Swamp Girl]

15 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

In defense of Mr Cousteau, there are still fish in the ocean so he wasn’t totally wrong 

 

Well, of course there are still fish, but to consider one species, Pacific bluefin tuna numbers are down 96% and the Great Banks cod population still hasn't rebounded after decades of letting it recover, but to get back to bass, if live sonar increases one's fishing efficacy, bass will become ever more difficult to catch as they're caught and caught and caught. Plus, catching them might become the sport of richer fishers, the ones who can afford the live sonar and the platform to mount it.

[TnRiver46]

10 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Well, of course there are still fish, but to consider one species, Pacific bluefin tuna numbers are down 96% and the Great Banks cod population still hasn't rebounded after decades of letting it recover, but to get back to bass, if live sonar increases one's fishing efficacy, bass will become ever more difficult to catch as they're caught and caught and caught. Plus, catching them might become the sport of richer fishers, the ones who can afford the live sonar and the platform to mount it.

Maybe, maybe not. People said the exact same thing years ago about down imaging, side imaging, bed fishing, tournaments, etc. 

 

yet bass numbers and size keep going up 

 

I think sometimes the fish laugh when we always predict their doom, they can be tough 

 

it ain’t that hard to out fish spot locked live scopers, even standing on the bank using worms from my garden with Salvation Army gear from the 1980s, I do it all the time 

[Swamp Girl]

41 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

People said the exact same thing years ago about down imaging, side imaging, bed fishing, tournaments, etc. 

 

yet bass numbers and size keep going up 

 

That's persuasive. Good rebuttal. 

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

That's persuasive. Good rebuttal. 

To humans, the sky is always falling 

 

to bass, they just kill something and eat it 

 

I like the fish’s outlook better 

[TN bassmaster]

43 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Maybe, maybe not. People said the exact same thing years ago about down imaging, side imaging, bed fishing, tournaments, etc. 

 

yet bass numbers and size keep going up 

 

I think sometimes the fish laugh when we always predict their doom, they can be tough 

 

it ain’t that hard to out fish spot locked live scopers, even standing on the bank using worms from my garden with Salvation Army gear from the 1980s, I do it all the time 

i live on chickamauga a very pressured lake that gets livescoped alot the fish can hear(or feel?) the ping of ALL electronics and they adopt they shut down thats why ounce the fish are located the units get turned off.

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

To humans, the sky is always falling 

 

to bass, they just kill something and eat it 

 

I like the fish’s outlook better 

 

But your outlook is the same as the bass's outlook. Hmmm.

 

Now I understand.

 

I had always misassumed that you were in background of your thumbnail photo. So, that's you in the foreground! Well, I hope you bit that guy in the red jacket for hauling you out of your home. 

[TnRiver46]

Just now, ol'crickety said:

 

But your outlook is the same as the bass's outlook. Hmmm.

 

Now I understand.

 

I had always misassumed that you were in background of your thumbnail photo. So, that's you in the foreground! Well, I hope you bit that guy in the red jacket for hauling you out of your home. 

I bit him right on the thumb!!!

[gim]

59 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Well, of course there are still fish, but to consider one species, Pacific bluefin tuna numbers are down 96% and the Great Banks cod population still hasn't rebounded after decades of letting it recover, but to get back to bass, if live sonar increases one's fishing efficacy, bass will become ever more difficult to catch as they're caught and caught and caught.

While I do agree, tuna and cod are generally targeted for harvest.  Commercially too, if I'm not mistaken.  Bass are generally not targeted for harvest, and they certainly aren't commercially harvested, thank goodness.

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

While I do agree, tuna and cod are generally targeted for harvest.  Commercially too, if I'm not mistaken.  Bass are generally not targeted for harvest, and they certainly aren't commercially harvested, thank goodness.

 

Another good rebuttal. It's fun chatting with you smart fishers.

 

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I bit him right on the thumb!!!

 

I was hoping you did!

[TN bassmaster]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I bit him right on the thumb!!!

So, to type on this forum do you like yank electronic units down a repurpose them? and can you please look around for this one lure i snagged?

[GaryH]

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Another good rebuttal. It's fun chatting with you smart fishers.

 

 

 

Now that’s funny Katie that you think there are smart fishers..

[Deleted account]

19 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

there sure are plenty more sharks than there used to be 

 

Ah, no. The number of most shark species, particularly the larger species are way down from historic numbers. 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Deleted account said:

 

Ah, no. The number of most shark species, particularly the larger species are way down from historic numbers. 

Maybe they just like biting people more now