Placed an order this morning for a livescope transducer and monitor.
Now just gotta figure up how i want to mount it and the pole.
What do yall have for setups?

I plane to have a mobile setup on my little boat. You can find several good designs online. I want to be able to take it out and also don’t want it on the trolling motor.

Transducer on the trolling motor shaft and a 12 inch screen just above a 10" hummingbird unit.

We tried it on our trolling motor, because thats how my son wanted it. Spotlock and livescope dont mix. Ended up with a pole that cost around $200 i think. Its aluminum and stainless, flips down, telescoping. Joseph likes it really good. I dont use it much to be honest.


https://www.amazon.com/Brocraft-Tel...mp;mcid=b1a94420d2eb35438783df3b086e0c40

I believe this is the one

I think it depends on what you wanna do with it. If you are bass fishing and just gonna have it in the water as another aid to see what's going on, and if you already have a spotlock TM, then a pole might be fine. If you plan to devote a lot of your fishing time to video fishing, then I think the most efficient way to do that is on the TM shaft.

Every decision on a boat is a compromise. If you emphasize one thing it is usually at the expense of something else. If you are going all in on video fishing, I think the TM shaft mount has too many advantages to go with a pole. I use a cable TM that doesn't have spotlock and there are sure times that I wish I had it. But I can constantly sweep the water around me using my foot and with little effort I can cover 360 degrees. You just can't do that with a pole.

I fished yesterday and didn't get a bite for 3 hours. The water was muddy and all the crappie were gone. I didn't see any bass either. Finally got to some clear water and checked out a brush top that held crappie a month ago. There wasn't a one on it, but in sweeping the area with the LS I saw a fish just off the bottom in the middle of the creek channel and thought it might be a bass. I tossed the little rap jig at him and he got it just before it hit bottom. Over the next 90 minutes I caught 25 bass, and left with them still biting. They were literally lying on the bottom and some had mud on them when I landed them. Once I hooked one, 10 to 15 more would come off the bottom and swim along with him, but they were hard to see before they bit.

I would have never known they were there with a pole mount. If I were you, I would mount it on the TM and try it a while. You can always buy a pole later. I tried to get my uncle to do it this way when he bought his LS, but he let a salesman talk him into a pole. He used it a few times and then mounted it to his TM. Good luck with it!

You dont see the actual bottom on livescope so often times if they are laying on the bottom you can only see their backs until they lift up off the bottom. Cool find preacher those days are some kind of fun!

Explain this to me please. Im new to the livescope as well

In forward view you can't see the entire bottom just the highest part of the bottom may be a better way to say it. Many times if the bottom is soft or if there is a tiny rise in the bottom the fish and bottom behind that rise will not be visible. hence the bottom fill setting on the unit. Lots of time in the winter I can only see the tip top of the fishes back on livescope then bring a bait over their head and they rise up.

From what I hear, now that’s hearsay. The active target is better for seeing fish on bottom. But that could be untrue for I have neither..

I have a Low Pro Livescope mount that mounts on existing holes in the TM. I didn't like the system they had to turn it so I just built a PVC handle that I can use. Works out pretty well. I fished for a long time with it just mounted to the TM shaft, that was okay until you spot lock.

I just got that mount, after using a PVC pole for 4 years. I like it so far, but as you said, I'm not a fan of the handle. I thought I would like it, but I don't. I ordered a 105 degree impact adapter and will attach a pvc handle to that. I like being able to turn the transducer without having to push or pull on a handle.

I've been watching "Fishing With Nordbye"

Here is his setup and it looks pretty dog gone cool. Foot Controlled Thingy

So I grew up freshwater fishing farm ponds but mostly salt water fish inshore and offshore. Never done much crappie fishing. Thinking about getting into it and started looking at these live scopes on YouTube. Are they really that easy? YouTube makes it seem like it’s a done deal. Fish are there, just got to get them to eat. It’s amazing to me. Never seen anything like it.

IDOT, I think that thing costs as much as a LS

Finding the fish and figuring out how to get them to bite is one thing, learning to cast well enough to hit thme almost everytime is the skill most people dont posess. There are a bunch of folks livescoping now so it is not as easy. 3 years ago I could find a group and catch 10 fish out of it. Now days if you catch 1 or 2 out of that group you have done good. The other thing I will say is that it takes a long time to be really good at it and the same 3 or 4 people that are really good at it consistently finish higher in tournaments than all the other folks running livescope who are not really good at it.

I have decided on a fishing specialties pole mount.
Mainly because 90% of my fishing is spot lock.

When you say 12" screen, do you mean fishfinder or an actual screen/monitor?

12" garmin unit of some model all it is for is livescoping no mapping or di/si above a 10" bird I use for mapping

Here's what I did:

That’s a nice little boat. I caught a pile of white trout out of an old sea ark as a kid. They are well built in my opinion