high speed transducer vs. puck style

[PmDavis300]

so i have an oooolldddd flasher with a high speed transom mount style transducer. it detects the bottom on the ice, but im not sure if it can see fish, and it definatly cant see my jig. do puck style and high speed type transducers work the same? or do i need a new one?

[sjburnt]

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[Deitz Dittrich]

I think most issues people have is cone angle and getting the ducer level enough to read. Because you unit is so old, you may have scratches on the bottom and or not as much power as it once did.. hence why you are not picking up your jig.

Did you manually turn the sensitivity up as high as you could?

[PmDavis300]

 Originally Posted By: sjburnt

The pucks work better. Having said that, I limped along with a rig like you describe - oooollldddd. I mounted the transducer on a 24" stick and sent it down the hole. This was a Humminbird LX100 - I think, can't remember, but it was the cheapest thing they made at the time. I could see pretty small jigs just fine, but the pixels were so large that it was hard seeing a bite.

Buy a Vex or Marcum if you can, its a whole new world.

oh you bet. as soon as i have the money ill buy a nice one.

[slipperybob]

A lot of times the high speed transducer need mounting on something, whereas the ice transducer is designed to free drop and automatically levels itself.

[PmDavis300]

 Originally Posted By: Deitz Dittrich

I think most issues people have is cone angle and getting the ducer level enough to read. Because you unit is so old, you may have scratches on the bottom and or not as much power as it once did.. hence why you are not picking up your jig.

Did you manually turn the sensitivity up as high as you could?

ya i turned up the sensitivity as high as it would go. any suggestions for getting the transducer level? right now all i really do is just throw it in the hole and hope for the best.

[PmDavis300]

 Originally Posted By: slipperybob

A lot of times the high speed transducer need mounting on something, whereas the ice transducer is designed to free drop and automatically levels itself.

i see, maybe i should rig up some sort of stand

[sjburnt]

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[fishin58]

I have one on a vexilar fl8, it works as long as it is perfectly level..it works just fine then

[Deitz Dittrich]

Buy some sort of bubble level and stick it to the top of the ducer so you can get it level..

[Tom7227]

I took the transducer bracket and mounted it onto a piece of 1/4 inch aluminum tubing. I then bent the tubing to to get the tranducer horizontal, and at the other end I made a J shape so I could hook it onto the ice of the flasher itself. With a little 'fine tuning' I was able to get it level and work reasonably well. The trick though is to get that mess out of the hole before you try and pull a fish up cause if you don't it'll get tangled.

[eurolarva]

I used the graph from my boat for 7 years ice fishing and used the high speed ducer. You keep adjusting it in the water till you get the minimum depth. Most of the time I could only see my lure when I jigged and it came across as a fish icon with fish ID on. Normally I would know there were fish if the bottom started to get distorted or the depth would change from like 10.2 to 10 ft. It is not as good as a flasher but it was tons better then nothing.

[sjburnt]

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[Bulldoggr]

I remember when you had to have a bubble level on those just to get them to work right.

was there not an attachment for the blue box to hold the arm with the bubble on it?

[planofslayer]

I used an old setup like you're talking about, a Hummingbird 2000. I had the transducer mounted on a T stick made from pine 1X2. The transducer was on the bottom of the T and the top of the T straddled the hole. It showed the level where the fish were swimming through and the water depth. But other than that my Vexilar rules. I used that old setup for 15 years or more and it helped catch a lot of fish. One thing about the Hummingbird was if you put a little water on the ice it would read through the ice.