09-13-2014, 11:59 AM
[#0000FF]Great report and nice pics.
It definitely takes some practice to get the hang of the Showdown. But once it becomes natural you can focus on fishing and just enjoy the show.
The Showdowns are designed for ice fishing but I have one of my two models rigged up to use on my tube. I have only used it once...in deeper water at Starvation. It works fine but for open water fishing I still prefer a good LCD unit that displays a record and shows bottom structure, etc. The Showdown is at its best when rock solid stationary...shooting straight down and responsible only for tracking lures and marking fish. Moving it around messes up the readout...and it doesn't show bottom anomalies.
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It definitely takes some practice to get the hang of the Showdown. But once it becomes natural you can focus on fishing and just enjoy the show.
The Showdowns are designed for ice fishing but I have one of my two models rigged up to use on my tube. I have only used it once...in deeper water at Starvation. It works fine but for open water fishing I still prefer a good LCD unit that displays a record and shows bottom structure, etc. The Showdown is at its best when rock solid stationary...shooting straight down and responsible only for tracking lures and marking fish. Moving it around messes up the readout...and it doesn't show bottom anomalies.
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