Your 100% on with what your doing. I fished the NWT on Sakakawea the first day a run and gun FFS. The second with a BB method. Both very educational. However Duane won again with another FFS game. Your right on alot of your technique with FFS. I will text you with more info. I would not like to discuss here. thanks for another good Vid. See you next time.

Im in my first open water season with livescope. Used it a couple of times on the ice last year. There is an obvious advantage to finding and fishing fish, but I honestly think the biggest advantage is to finding and fishing structure. Rock piles, weed lines, drop offs, humps, etc. I can find structure 10x faster and will often cast even without seeing fish. There are many times I do not see a fish in the structure before I cast, but then pull them out. Incredible searching tool. I've also learned more about fish habits and behavior than i could have learned over a decade of fishing. It was a big financial investment, but I feel like its a fraction of the cost to what I would have learned by hiring guides. I know it can be an unfair advantage over those who cant afford it, but you can say the same thing about a boat owner vs a shore fisherman... And that is often 10 to 20 times the cost. Nobody seems to get their undies in a bundle over that.

If you choose to use ffs then you should catch and release only by law Truly an unfair advantage!

Similar debate when side scan came out. Give it a years or so and this will all die down.

Hit me up if you want to get more run time out of that unit. 20ah is a not the preferred battery for those systems.

Which launch do you tend to use

How do you find the height of the two captains chairs? I took one for a cruise, and the black frame windshield was right in my main line of sight. I don't think I could adjust those seats up or down....

Great video. Appreciate all the info. FFS is fantastic but ultimately in the end it is just another tool in the tool box. Just because you have a nice hammer doesn’t automatically mean you can build a house.

Can I use dynamite now? Same thing right?

Thanks for your reply I am thinking about getting one and trying to gather as much information as I can

The people I see using it are casting too a certain fish what way would you fish if you had two or three people in the boat

This is my first full season open water/ice that I have had FFS. It has been a very useful tool to find fish more efficiently but what people dont understand that dont have it is that it still doesnt catch the fish.

FFS has made the days when I ran my trolling motor batteries down to nothing turn into even longer days on the water now because I'm confidently pulling through pods of fish with lures (and I have lithium batteries, ha, ha). It's a bit of a confidence boost that's for sure. I'm also getting better at leaving tight-lipped fish after this summer. Especially after throwing a good variety of baits at them and not getting a thing.

One way I’ve been very productive with livescope is a simple slip bobber with a jig and a leech. Helps keep the bait in the strike zone better. Have found casting it’s a little harder to do that especially when it’s windy. I do wish the beam on the transducers for ffs was a little wider so it would be easier to see your bait and not have to make as many adjustments to the pole.

Super interesting, great video

I have lived in Tennessee and Alabama my whole life and for most of my life the south has been Humming bird country. 2.5 weeks ago I started to work for bass pro selling marine accessories, including electronics. I am selling Garmin probably 5 to 1 over hummingbird and it is all because of live scope. It is not going anywhere, there is too much money involved so we might as well embrace it.

I appreciate your honest feedback on learning FFS. I don't have much time to dedicate to staring at my screen to go through the whole learning experience. But, everytime I go out I try to learn something new and Hone my skills.

You make some very good points but I think it’s still cheating! Mainly due to the fact I do not have it yet!! 😂

Is that the number 9 Berkeley finisher

I find the FFS helps me understand how fish relate to and move around structure. Also, if I see a different species while scoping for walleye, I’ll often grab a rod and make a cast. I like catching fish… don’t care what kind.

Yes life and weather definitely this year has gotten in the way of fishing started this spring with very little water in the rivers down hill ever since Tstorms too

If you’re not changing and learning in 2024 with all this new technology then your left stuck in the past. I watch guys on the water everyday so I can get better although I only fish my days off year round. Between fishing, hunting, and duck calling year round watching successful guys drives me to put walleyes in my boat

It’s beeen a minute brother Summer gardening chores got me away from the lakes but wanted to ask you a ? Best time to fall fish lake Sakakawea I need to work on throwing puppet minnow and snap jiggin

Nice

Nice job bloom. After my week there all too used to bringing a half eaten crawler in.

I'm glad to have Mega Live in my boat because it works, but man... it's no wonder people love the Garmin more. I can't wait to upgrade to that at some point in life. Ha, ha! Until then, hopefully we can train ourselves to be as good with Mega Live so the eventual switch make us next-level-gold with the better system. 🎣

Very cool seeing you figure out the ins and outs of mega live. I’m a livescope guy myself but can absolutely relate to the learning curve.

just gotta fish where they are.

Good video!! Live scope is so much clearer.

Great vid. I'm in the "same boat"...I'm a guide on Lake of the Woods, Canada. I am currently in a 2025 Impact XS. Good guide boat, but looking to switch up to glass. Thanks for the review, it was just what I was looking for.

I'll just stick to multiple batteries lol

Is FFS going to be the normal for your videos now?

This is the best video ive seen on FFS. The reality is there is a huge learning curve. Please keep making videos like this.

And there goes your soul, sold to livescope, congrats on disappointing your grandpa

Did you add the weight of the trailer to the boat when you did your weight calculations? Also any gear inside the boat when you were towing? Thanks.

Glad you got it together! FFS is a lot of fun, definitely can lose yourself in it!

The bird mega live is so far behind Garmin, I do run 4 birds on my boat , FFS is Garmin

Wow, that was crazy informative for setup and troubleshooting. That contrast/sensitivity stuff is super important. Nice video!

Awesome video. Thanks for putting it all together and showing us the entire start to finish process.

If you put the other units on standby while you're using the mega live, the sonar wave you're getting will go away

I was surprised as a youtuber and guide that you didn't have this before.

One thing I’ve learned is keep your distance at a constant and depth somewhat constant you will learn what size and species fish your looking at A lot faster great videos!!

Ffs is amazing. You learn a ton about how fish react and it makes your outings way more efficient. Find myself doing a lot less dragging and more sharp shooting specific schools of fish with it. One tip that helped me a lot was the shorter the distance forward you set on the screen the easier it is to see fish on the screen because the marks are bigger. Same with depth. Set depth just a few feet below bottom.

I’ve been contemplating one myself. Necessary for targeting big fish in a tournament but not so much for just finding and catching fish. I’m going to hold out for now.

Glad you got the issue resolved. 90 percent of the time it works every time. It would have sucked to watch the remainder of this video with it sideways/skewed. :)

I hope you have better luck with the yak mounts than I did. They were cheap plastic and wobble bad. Then break.

Atta boy bloomy

Hey Brett. Good video. Have you tried different colour pallets ? You will find some are better on the eyes than others and show detail better. Mega live is awesome. I have it also. I find contrast at 12 and sensitivity at 12 as well to work best for me. I use the blue back ground pallet, I think it’s 12 or 13? Not sure. I also had mine on a pole. But I bought the quest ultrex and I have it mounted on the trolling motor now. Much easier now ( for me anyways ) and less crap to set up using the pole etc. Well enjoy you mega live. Only other thing I could recommend, is getting a 12” unit for reading mega live. Yup the spending never stops now. lol. Enjoy bro.

The video I been watching on different shows seems like casting to the fish is the best way to use FFS or do you think pulling spinners would work just as well

You’ve been through much of what I’ve found. If you have 2 open ports on your network, networking your ML will clean up your sonar interference. I extended my power cord and have a TKI mount on a lund track mount. Can move it anywhere in my boat and use any graph. At times the mask helps a ton. Don’t stick it on. Stick it to a piece of 3M no residue duct tape. Tape it over the ML window with a small piece of the duct tape. It’s stays on for weeks and is removable. You can also make a foam mask from a can coozy cut to size. If found the short mask and transducer at 50 degrees “5 clicks up” gives me best jig tracking. Good luck. Have fun