ice fishing flasher help?

[Mikey topaz]

With ice fishing hopefully gettin near im thinkin of looking in to a flasher for ice fishing.not sure exactlly how to read it. or how it works? and wondering if its worth purchasing one any info is greatly appreciatted

[bunker dunker]

YES!!!!!!!! they are a great tool on the ice.vexlar makes some great ones

[Mikey topaz]

Lol. thanks what exactly does it do though?

[Sigma1073]

I too have been thinking about ice fishing and if there will be enough ice this year to get out. After reading your post I did a quick search and this youtube video seemed helpful enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DELyU_Uih5k

[saxmatt]

The vex is good, and so are the marcum and hummingbird flashers. If you haven't used a flasher before the Showdown is the easiest to read. It's a vertical screen that shows the depth, bottom and marks your jig, a fish, or anything else in the water column as a line. It even reads through clear ice if you put a little water on the ice. I'm sure you can watch videos of every flasher I mentioned on YouTube

[catfishonthelake]

I have a portable Humminbird sonar that has a flasher mode and two years ago I bought the ice transducer for it and gave it a shot. It was actually pretty cool and definitely helped me catch a few more fish. They are ridiculously easy to read once you realize what the bars represent. You can watch your jig go up and down and when you see another big set of bars "approach" and then "connect" with your jig...set the hook. I was fishing for pickerel up the in gap and was watching the big sets of bars creep up on my jig on the unit and I would set the hook every time they met. I never felt the hits, but I hooked every fish.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Definitely a must have. I can't wait for ice season. It has to come and I hope it sticks around into March. Just went through my jigs the other day. Really fired up just to get out there. TIGHT LINES!!!

[jimmythegreek]

Ice is a coming boys.......pond in front of my house has a cove iced over already and on my way to work the little island cove on cranberry lake had a sheet over it too. I might give the lake a shot this weekend for prob the last time this year, its been slow and Im prob gonna look forward to the ice this year

[FASTEDDIE29]

NJF MEET N GREET!!!! Let's set it up boyz. Budd lake or the North side of Monksville usually have safe ice first and plenty of parking. Who's in???

[saxmatt]

Originally Posted by FASTEDDIE29

NJF MEET N GREET!!!! Let's set it up boyz. Budd lake or the North side of Monksville usually have safe ice first and plenty of parking. Who's in???

I'm in. You should start up a thread for it