Up your game with Garmin LiveScope
Looking to equip your boat with marine electronics to help improve your angling game? With high-definition underwater views from your boat, Garmin LiveScope™ helps makes fishing more efficient and big catches possible.
Here’s what you need to know about Garmin LiveScope. Pretty soon, you might be angling like the pros.
Fish smarter with Garmin LiveScope
The Garmin integrated LiveScope system enables you to see real-time, clear sonar imagery of fish and underwater structures. With multiple viewing options, LiveScope helps make it easier to find fish in any inland or offshore waters.
This system comprises 3 essential marine electronics: a transducer, a sonar black box and a compatible chartplotter.
Transducer: Mounted to the trolling motor or a stand-alone pole, the transducer sends out sound waves and listens for the returning echo to create live sonar images. Forward-facing sonar helps you see what’s going on in front of and around your boat up to 250′ away with LiveScope 2, up to 200′ away with the LiveScope Plus System and up to 500′ away with LiveScope XR. Down mode provides you real-time views of what’s happening directly beneath your boat. Ideally used in shallow areas, perspective mode provides a horizontal view of the water so you can see a wider slice of your surroundings. Plus, when you tack on Spy Pole™ and a GT360UHD transducer, you’ll get a 360-degree view of life beyond your boat with OneVü™.
Sonar black box: A sonar black box is the connector between the transducer and a compatible chartplotter for both LiveScope Plus and LiveScope XR setups. It processes the information it receives from the transducer and creates detailed, real-time sonar images that your chartplotter can display. For best performance, mount your black box in a dry and accessible location.
With LiveScope 2, cut out the middleman and leave your black box at home. Expanded sonar visuals from the transducer will appear on your chartplotter with 20% greater resolution, providing wider coverage and sharper detail.
Garmin chartplotter: Not only are chartplotters great for navigating to your favourite fishing spots and marked waypoints, but the clear, bright and readable display helps you see the fish below. ECHOMAP™ series or GPSMAP® series chartplotters are ideal companions for LiveScope users. Both make it easy to distinguish between fish and structure thanks to vivid sonar colour palettes.
When you pair your Garmin chartplotter, Force® trolling motor and Spy Pole mount, you can control your LiveScope pole directly from your plotter. Oscillate the pole and lock in on points of interest using SpyLock™ and SpyScan™.
Benefits of fishing with LiveScope
Fishing becomes faster — and a lot more fun — with detailed underwater visuals that can help improve your efficiency and targeting.
When you have Garmin LiveScope technology on board, you’ll be able to better see and understand fish behaviour. Instead of blindly casting and hoping for a bite, the images displayed on your compatible chartplotter can help you compensate for underwater structures and avoid getting your lure caught on brush piles or logs. To better understand how fish interact with your line, watch your screen as the lure hits the water. You’ll be able to adapt your technique for more targeted fishing.
Identifying your target species and large schools of fish becomes easier with LiveScope. Once you find a fishing spot you want to revisit, mark a waypoint and route yourself back the next time you’re on the water. Fishing your favourites is endless with LiveScope.
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