[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.