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Anyone own a Lx7 and Flx 28?


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I'm sure lots of people are interested. Why not just post it here?

Here's my opinion. With good ducers on each, the fl28 reads fish near the ice (high cruisers) better and fishes plankton blooms better. I frequently basin fish crappie at night over plankton blooms, the vexilar fl22 (hopefully the fl28 too) blows the lx7 out of the water in terms of clarity and ability to fish through the plankton. IMO, in almost every other setup and situation, the lx7 puts the fl28 to bed pretty quickly. That said, I've only used the 28 4 days and really base most of my opinion on the fl22 performance.

Also, the lx5 fishes the plankton just as clean as the vexilar, especially with the ability to zoom into the area. For some reason the signal threshold of the lx7 is sucseptable to over display the noise from the plankton. It's gotten better with updates, but isn't there yet. The graph mode does help fish through the noise, but it isn't ideal and takes active fish to produce diagnals in the graph while they follow your bait.

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I sold my 7 to buy the 28, like stated above, the fl28 marks the high flyers way better than the 7 did. that said the movable zoom on the 7 is something im gonna miss. the auto depth on both is something I like about both. the brightness on the 28 is better for me, i had alot of glare issues with the 7 (i ran it on a lower brightness level to keep battery usage down)

so far i have about 25 hours logged with the 28. in that time my lx7 had been to marcum and repaired twice. Once for a software crash that caused it to not lock bottom, and once for a ducer that was junk.

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I sold my 7 to buy the 28, like stated above, the fl28 marks the high flyers way better than the 7 did. that said the movable zoom on the 7 is something im gonna miss.

I'm always confused by this. So say your fishing in 28fow and your fish are between 16-18 fow. On your vex just switch to the 20ft scale and bingo you have adjustable zoom. Yeah you lose the bottom but your fishing suspended fish and you more likely not moving. It's alot easier to turn a knob one click insistently on your Vex than trying to hold down the zoom button to set the range on your Marcum that is not instant. Every time I tried the set the zoom on a Marcum the fish would be gone by the time it was set.

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I also own an LX5 and FL18 and the 18 shows high flyers much better than the LX5. I also got the LX9, but haven't seen yet how it reads high flyers.

I like the LX-9 a lot. Lots of power and features there. I'm currently having an issue with my charger thou. I'm pretty sure it fried my battery so I sent in the charger in hopes Marcum replaces it.

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Also, the lx5 fishes the plankton just as clean as the vexilar, especially with the ability to zoom into the area. For some reason the signal threshold of the lx7 is sucseptable to over display the noise from the plankton. It's gotten better with updates, but isn't there yet. The graph mode does help fish through the noise, but it isn't ideal and takes active fish to produce diagnals in the graph while they follow your bait.

Fishwater,

Was the LX7 being fished with 6 color palette or 3 color palette? And what was your typical target ID and sensitivity settings while on the plankton? Reason why I asked is that you mention the LX5 performs just fine for you under the same conditions. The 6 color on the LX7 would've shown too much fine detail or clutter likely under these circumstances? What about while on the 9 degree cone?

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Lawrence, i like the movable zoom because I could set that in a ten foot range mid column and have it completely separate on the screen from my actual flasher dial in the middle. Then I could watch the middle really close and still see those bottom huggers come in.

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Was the LX7 being fished with 6 color palette or 3 color palette?

We tried all color options on multiple (3) units repeatedly. I tested and swapped transducers repeatedly. The 3 color was less cluttered, but still extremely cluttered, debatable as to whether it was more fishable or not.

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And what was your typical target ID and sensitivity settings while on the plankton?

ID always low. Sensitivity typically set as low as possible, but at times riding the sensitivity higher was the way to go to get better motion feedback in the cluttered graph.

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Reason why I asked is that you mention the LX5 performs just fine for you under the same conditions. The 6 color on the LX7 would've shown too much fine detail or clutter likely under these circumstances?

The lx5 (again multiple units) perform much better in terms of clarity of signal in this situation. It wasn't superior to fish with, the graph mode of the 7 still provided valuable info that allowed it to be more effective. The lx6and7 handle the signal differently than the lx5. There are three general issues at play; the first is the fact you mention, the units display more signals with lower (and different) thresholds. Also, the lx7 puts gain regimens over depth regions - 1-10', 11-20' and so on, using the processor. And lastly, the gain regimen prescribed are different.

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What about while on the 9 degree cone?

The 20 degree was worse in terms of clutter.

This is kinda a one trick pony setup. The plankton in these lakes are thick, nothing like I've ever seen in my life before on any other lakes. The WI DNR specifically noted how biologically active one of the lakes was to my buddy that has a cabin on it. Like clockwork the bloom rises each evening and makes the bottom appear as though it's rising up from 50' up to 25'. The vex doesn't run 100% clean, but it does run cleaner than all other units, even my favorite lx5. I only use it for this setup, I feel the marcum has too much to offer everywhere else. And in all honesty, the marcum is cluttered, but typically when the fish are active, the graph is the way to go. More often than not you can also pick your limit out of higher cruising fish!

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