Using a vexilar in a foot of water

[muskie hunter]

Where I fish half the time it is weired there is only 3 to 5 feet of water on a river with 2- 4ft of ice and one too two feet of water and I tired to use my vexilar in a foot, or two of water but I never could make it show a lot of information below me like my bait and the fish around me anyone have any tips?

[brian6715]

Look down the hole.

[JeffB]

You will only see what's in the cone and your cone will be very narrow with only a foot of water. I don't think there are any magic solutions for you.

[Jim Uran]

Tough to do, you may as well be sight fishing.

[Rick G]

If you can, shoot through the ice. Otherwise keep your transducer near the top of your hole and turn the gain up till you can see. 1ft of water isn't much to play with, you might not be able to see anything anyway you do it.

[muskie hunter]

The trouble is that where I am has very murky water it is the wisconsin river which is very dark stained water ony 6 inches you can see tops

[fisherman-andy]

May as well use a bobber. I dont really see the point in 1ft of water. Maybe 4-6ft. But 1ft I dont think it will even work.

[muskie hunter]

This river I fish is very weired the max depth on it is 4.5 deep, and in the winter the ice gets 3 to four feet think and belive it of not we catch good fish 8-10 inch gills, nice crappies and perch, and they pull out 40 ich plus pike out of there.

[ozzie]

I fish a shallow lake with only maybe 4 ft of water below the ice....I have started to leave the vex home when going to this lake as it just isn't needed. I can fish just as if not more effectively by not using the vex and just paying attention to my rod.

[TruthWalleyes]

Like said above, you can increase your cone by having your transducer closer to the surface. If you had an arm on your vex like marcum does you can just position it in the center of the hole and 4' down you might get 1' of cone.