Vexilar Sonarphone T-Pod

[98prosport]

Just thought I would mention that I did get this to work on my Kindle Fire HDX. Vexilar site says it won't work. not true.

[Juan Grande]

My question is, when does the T-Bag come out?

[HandGunner]

my only problem with these things are... $h!t cost more than my phone does. and I do not feel comfterble having my phone out near water ever! for less than half the price of just the sonar thing I have a eagle fish easy 350c color fish finder for my kayak this smartphone one would dumb things down more and wayyy less rigging and mounting but Like I said one splash of water and my phone is done

[DTro]

Hopefully that will change, several new phones are now water resistant.

I can totally submerge my new phone.

[BTL]

Hopefully that will change, several new phones are now water resistant.

I can totally submerge my new phone.

Me too, and I have accidentally tested it more than once

I'll never own another phone that isn't water resistant.

[SalmonSlayer]

Any one else have issues with it dropping signal? I thought it was supposed to have a range of 100yds or so. I couldn't keep a signal from 15ft! Seemed to be pretty accurate when it was working anyway...

[DTro]

I don’t recall specifically, but there might be a setting in which your phone will drop the connection based on a previous hot spot and how it remembers it. This could be the issue. Vexilar has a video explaining dropped connection issues and the steps to take to try and trouble shoot it.

As far as range, when I did my testing, I was out of sight of it and still had a good connection.

[DTro]

I hiked back into a little pocket of flood water last night. I sort of knew the general contour of the bottom, but just to fine tune it a little bit I tossed out the T-Pod and let it float around a bit until it hovered over a small area that looked very good (right in front of a root ball where the current had created a small hole near the bank). At the same time I made a couple of short casts with the unit to that same area to make sure there was no submerged timber to get hung up on.

Tossed my bait out to that same spot and waited.

A few hours later, a couple of nice Flatties hit the river bank, including this one

[FshBloodRiverMud]

Nice.

[DTro]

Had some more fun with the Sonarphone the other night.

Even got a thump on camera while doing the demo!