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Since owning for 2 years not impressed with it yet. What really bothers me is how slow it reads. When i jig up and let fall the display is still showing up when jig is down. And when showing a fish coming up i will have a bite and it will showthe fish still coming up. I have refrained from using it and use my FL 20 which i really like just thought i would try something different. Is this normal? Has any one else had this problem? Thinking it could possibly be the transducer but not sure.

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Since owning for 2 years not impressed with it yet. What really bothers me is how slow it reads. When i jig up and let fall the display is still showing up when jig is down. And when showing a fish coming up i will have a bite and it will showthe fish still coming up. I have refrained from using it and use my FL 20 which i really like just thought i would try something different. Is this normal? Has any one else had this problem? Thinking it could possibly be the transducer but not sure.

You definitely have a problem. Get it serviced. If you known that since purchase you should've serviced while it was still in warranty. Talk to Marcum and see what they can do. They been busy as I heard but once through im sure they can resolve your issue.

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You could try a new battery, I know my old Vex was acting up doing wierd things when the battery was almost toast. Got a new battery and it was like brand new again. Something easy to try anyway.

Some of the Marcums sold around that time had bad batteries to begin with I hear.

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You could try a new battery, I know my old Vex was acting up doing wierd things when the battery was almost toast. Got a new battery and it was like brand new again. Something easy to try anyway.

Some of the Marcums sold around that time had bad batteries to begin with I hear.

Some also had bad transducers. MarCum replaced or fixed them at no charge.

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Maybe you're just reading it wrong. If a fish is doing a bite from below the lure, like a crappie looking upwards, you will get a bite before the marks line up. The sonar read from the fish is usually reading the air bladder of the fish. There's going to be some distance in that. Pretty much all my walleye bites have been like this on my LX5 for as I've seen it while jigging. The marks don't line up and I would've gotten a bite already. When the walleye turns back down to swim away, it's when my marks should be lined up. Then again, the fish is usually hooked by then. I've gotten lots of bite from invisible fish. A fish that comes from outside of the cone quickly and bites. Sometimes I only see a flash of a signal before the fish bite. Typical northern pike torpedo speed.

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You can't expect the jig to react at the same time you jig your rod tip. There's going to be some delay due to water displacement and line stretch depending on the line that you have on and type of jig and weight. The jig should rise, apex, and then start a slow descend back down. If your fishing line is coily, it only slows the jig's downward descent even more. I see this and feel this just as I get past that 15 feet mark. It gets progressively more and again I see and feel this process repeating just at I get to that 35 feet mark too.

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