Will a Vex show weeds through the ice?

[Wables]

I need to find a weed edge. I know the general location, approximately 12 feet deep, about 5-6' tall weeds (as of this fall) and 8" of ice. I was going to use my camera to find the weeds, but can I shoot through the ice and pick them up? I have an FL-8. Thanks!

[rabbit lake dude]

Yes. Bring a water bottle, scrape of the snow, if at all possible try to find black ice. not ice that is full of air bubbles. dump some water on the ice and put your tranducer on the ice. you will be amazed at what you will see. If the ice is nice and black you can even see fish through the ice. keep the gain low so you don't pick up the air bubbles in the ice. You will see the weeds no problem.

[M_komo]

Yep, it will shoot through the ice, the problem I have is identifying the edge. What am I looking for?

I mean does the weed edge change colors as I am closer or farther away? Or, I keep on shooting until I see no weeds? Doesnt sound pragmatic. Its beens awhile, but always thought weeds kinda taper off, vs just stop.

Lemme guess, the marcom will tell you where the weeds end.

[Deitz Dittrich]

M-

Pretty much just as you described. Just keep shooting through the ice untill you dont see any weeds. The cone angle at that depth is still pretty small, so that puts you right on the edge. An under water camera really shines for this however.. Once you drill a hole drop the camera down and look.. it will put you right on the edge.

[Walterwontfalter]

Maybe this isn't the easiest way to do things but I drill a short line of holes over where I think the edge is. I drop a line down and can see when it goes below the "bottom" on the vex I just drop my line down the next hole until my bait goes right to bottom. The weed edge is inbetween that hole and the previous. Not really time efficient but it works for me.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Walter- that may work, however, you may be fooling yourself as well. Because many of your ice flashers have a larger cone angle than that of its summer cousin, the dead area is much larger. The flasher will read the shallowest depth.. So one side of your cone angle may be in 10 feet of water, but if you are sitting on a steep drop off the other side of your cone may be over 14 feet, which would leave 4 feet of dead zone. Your lure would disapear much like there were weeds down there, without there being any weeds down there.

Just keep that in mind.