Hello, I'm back with my rookie questions. I have a Garmin 160 fishfinder, Santa didn't bring me a Vexilar, SHE said I deserved coal....(but she will this year). The finder works great on a boat, but I have rigged for standstill operation and it does a fair job (you have to adjusted it well). I use mainly the flasher side of the screen, but, when you pull it out of water you can definitely hear the sonar clicking. Now my question is: can fish hear the same click underwater ? In this case it might spook fish, especially finnicky or shy ones, while regular flasher like Vexilar or Zercom send pulses 20 to 40 times/sec should not be as "noisy".
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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Hello, I'm back with my rookie questions.
I have a Garmin 160 fishfinder, Santa didn't bring me a Vexilar, SHE said I deserved coal....(but she will this year).
The finder works great on a boat, but I have rigged for standstill operation and it does a fair job (you have to adjusted it well).
I use mainly the flasher side of the screen, but, when you pull it out of water you can definitely hear the sonar clicking.
Now my question is: can fish hear the same click underwater ? In this case it might spook fish, especially finnicky or shy ones, while regular flasher like Vexilar or Zercom send pulses 20 to 40 times/sec should not be as "noisy".
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