While fishing I came upon a dead time(imagine that ) and I thought I'd take a pic of my MarCum and describe a couple scenarios as to what I was reading. This may answer a few of the questions like, "how can I tell if I'm in soft or hard bottom" and "if Vex needs a suppression cable or Low Power mode in shallow water, with 1500 watts how well does MarCum perform in shallow water?"
The pic is of low quality for web purposes but if you look close you'll see an example of what great target separation the MarCum has and how it excels in shallow water.
I'm in 12' of water. You can see the weaker return in a broad yellow band which indicates a soft bottom. Above at 11' you see my 1/8 oz Go Devil, OK keep in mind I'm not using the zoom, look close you can see the separation of another blip. Thats the minnow head that I tipped the Go Devil with. We're talking a fraction of an inch but still the MarCum shows the separation of the Go Devil and the minnow head. Imagine those bottom hugging eyes or a school of suspended crappies and how that target separation might be useful. I have one last tip, note the bubble wrap the transducer was shipped with in the transducer tray. I use that wrap to protect my ducer when in transit.
I hope this helps to answer some of the questions about using a MarCum.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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While fishing I came upon a dead time(imagine that
) and I thought I'd take a pic of my MarCum and describe a couple scenarios as to what I was reading. This may answer a few of the questions like, "how can I tell if I'm in soft or hard bottom" and "if Vex needs a suppression cable or Low Power mode in shallow water, with 1500 watts how well does MarCum perform in shallow water?"
The pic is of low quality for web purposes but if you look close you'll see an example of what great target separation the MarCum has and how it excels in shallow water.
I'm in 12' of water. You can see the weaker return in a broad yellow band which indicates a soft bottom. Above at 11' you see my 1/8 oz Go Devil, OK keep in mind I'm not using the zoom, look close you can see the separation of another blip. Thats the minnow head that I tipped the Go Devil with. We're talking a fraction of an inch but still the MarCum shows the separation of the Go Devil and the minnow head. Imagine those bottom hugging eyes or a school of suspended crappies and how that target separation might be useful. I have one last tip, note the bubble wrap the transducer was shipped with in the transducer tray. I use that wrap to protect my ducer when in transit.
I hope this helps to answer some of the questions about using a MarCum.
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