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ICE GADGETS
for ice fishing instead of a digital picture
Because crappies spend so much time on a sonar screen, Lefebre is ready with a
suspended in the water column, it is response.
difficult to find them with a camera. Here “Flashers are presenting information in
is a view of a school moving through. The real time – it is instantaneous. Digital screens
odd color is due to weak lead core battery cannot provide the amount of detail that a
power after one day use. Lefebre says new flasher does in real time - period. A flasher
lithium batteries are proving to be the ice also tells you the size of the fish by how thick
fisherman’s best friend. or thin the colored line appears. And it can tell
you the distance the fish is from your position:
fish. But when I see a fish, I begin to drop a if the mark is yellow, the fish is some distance
from the lure in the edge of the cone signal.
lure down. If I see the fish react to the lure When the yellow line turns green, the fish is
and begin moving to the bait, I feel pretty coming to your bait. And when the mark turns
good that I can catch that fish. But I cannot red, the fish is directly under you.”
let the lure drop below the fish because it will He returns periodically to his home base for
immediately lose interest. This is especially a rest before his next run-n-gun loop or when
true for crappies.” he sees a fish school migrate into cover at
When asked why he favors a flasher home base via his cell phone camera app.
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