Question

[CNY Lee]

I was having a real problem when catching fish they were getting caught up in my transducer, does that happen to you guys and what do you do to solve it?

[Thunderman]

Lee,try to put the transducer so the bottom of the puck is flush with the bottom of the ice.Or drill a hole right next to the one your fishing out of and put the puck just below the bottom of the ice I hope this helps.

[CNY Tim]

Your lucky you don't have 8 deg., cost me a 16" walleye yesterday, gave him enough slack to reposition that jig in his mouth and broke me off.

[insurance guy]

Not sure what your sonar setup is but with my vexilar I yank that float quick as lightning with my left hand as soon as I hook a good fish and get it out of the hole so that doesn't happen. The funny thing is when you're downviewing with the aquaview the fish rarely tangle with the cable even in the same hole but they always seem to hang up in the transducer

[Dark Cloud]

Lee - Ya dont even need the transducer down that far. Till the ice gets clost to a foot I only have the ducer just in the water. This significantly reduces how often fish gets on the cord. As the ice gets thicker I put it down the hole a bit further or you'll get the signal bouncing around and not get a good readout. The first few trips out on 3 inches of ice I only had the ducer just making contact with the water and it works fine plus the gills cant get at the cord when they do thier spinning thing. When a noticbly bigger fish is hooked i'll lift the unit out...

[CNY Lee]

Thanks guys, I tried all these my last time out and only had 1 fish get caught in it and that was a long nose dart. LOL

[USMC130FE]

I usually leave the "x-ducer" in the hole just above the bottom of the ice. When I get a fish that spins around it I'll lift it out and land the fish. Hopefully no one does what the guys on the video that Tim posted the link to....The one that their fishing for perch in. The guy hooks a nice perch and then in the next series of video you see the Marcum a ways off the side upside down. Looks like he launched it out of the hole. Good thing it was a Marcum, at least you know the unit can take it!!

Steve