teach me to read an old school flasher

[yourkiddin]

ive ran up on a fellow that uses his lowrance flasher to target striper. he is good. but either he is not a good teacher or im a bad student. it all looks like a bunch of lines to me. any good tutor videos out there. i thought those things were just old pieces of junk. but when this guy says drop the live shad down to twelve feet. its fish on. he has even given me an eagle silent 61 with transducer. im determined to learn this.

 

[dingbat]

Re: teach me to read an old school flasher

So you're throwing out the calculator and going back to a slide rule.
Flashers are not rocket science. Small bars are little fish, large bars are bigger fish. It best feature is instantaneous response times. Good for finding fish when running on plane.

As with any depth finder, the only way to really learn the finder is to correlate what you see on the screen with what you?re catching. I?m running of the new digital color sounders that give me the ability to determine the species of fish by the shape and color of the returns. Even with this technology the only way to learn the system is spending a lot of time with the unit.

If you didn't pick it up the basics from a live demo, don't expect to learn it on paper.

 

[MRS]

Re: teach me to read an old school flasher

Go to Vexilar.com they make excellent flasher units and have a ABCs for useing flasher units. Ice fisherman use them big time still....

 

[yourkiddin]

Re: teach me to read an old school flasher

i have practiced with it some more. but still caught no fish using it . he has told me to turn it on and adjust sensitivity till i see the bottom. then adjust more until i see double the depth of the bottom lit up also. and then anything that shows up between o and the depth is a fish if it stays lit up. so basically if im in 20 ft of water. there should be a band at 20 and 40ish. and if i pick up a small band between 0 and 20 thats a fish.