green box?

[jigginjoe]

I'm rather new to ice fishing but this year iI decided to get a little more modern. I have a new portable dx3000 a heater, auger, plenty of tackle and a camera but after reading the post about camera vs flasher it got me thinking maybe i should of got a flasher. What im wondering is I have a chance to get a vintage shakespear flasher that does work for 20 bucks and I'm wondering if it's even worth using. I cant afford a vex right now after buying a portable, heater ,auger and camera so just wondering what people think.

thanks Joe

[knoppers]

the old flashers may not have the power needed for ice fishing. my opinion, use the 20 bucks for some good tackle. glo jigs etc.

[Phill Aldahl]

I had a vintage lowrance fish-lo-kator a little newer than the green boxes, but it was set up with an open water transducer. I used it for two seasons and it showed me the bottom which was nice and also showed fish, but no jig. I got reeling up really fast and measuring out of deep I was relative to the fish with my wing span. I finally cracked and got a marcum last year. Anyways for 20 bucks, it might be worth a try. Mine worked alright

[jigginjoe]

Ty for the help also i figure since i have a camera if the flasher can give me the depth the fish are at i can raise my camera or lower to where they are and watch for my jig that way ?

[Phill Aldahl]

I would assume you should be alright. How deep of water are you fishing? These units only go to a certain depth. If you can talk to the guy you are getting it from ask him it he could mark fish with it and see how far the scale goes down. I think the one I have only goes down to 25.

[knoppers]

its all about the sensitivity. did I spell that right?. in other words, we use our flashers in winter for the main reason to pick up our very small ice jig, and how fish relate to that jig. we use the locator to fine tune are atack. the older units will not give this atvantage, they may give you depth, but thats all.

[broman]

I have a green box too. I tried it out last winter. Read the depth, but I had a hard time seeming my lure or fish. It was also really suseptible to interferance from other flashers. I bought an older FL-8 after trying out the green box and the difference was night and day. If you're looking to buy a used flasher, buy at least an older FL-8. You can see the lure and the fish. The green box, just doesn't work well enough to use effectively (and I bought mine for $1).

That being said, I just upgraded from my older FL-8 to a Marcum VX-1. I am going to sell my old FL-8 pretty soon since I don't really need two (3 counting the green box) flashers.

[schweady]

Lowrance Lo-K-Tor green box was all I used until I got my Marcum a few years back. Worked fine for depths, and would usually give a reading without drilling a hole if I puddled a little water and had some good clear ice. But still needed to use the ol' chunk-o-lead method to set depth and wasted a lot of time resetting depth after catching fish or messing up the bobber setting or forgetting how far off the bottom I was, etc etc. Better than nothing, but a far cry from how enjoyable it is to use the latest flashers.

[jigginjoe]

thank all you this helps me alot!!

Joe

[fishinalot]

I have a "green box" and it works great reading depths thru the ice. It shoots thru the ice better then my FL-8 or FL-18.

When I'm running around with my 4-wheeler checking depths, thats all I use.