Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - December 2018

You know, as I look back, there’s a lot of firsts in life. Looking back to the first blue gill I ever caught I threw a little red and white bobber on a rock and the bobber went down rigged with a night crawler and a perch smashed it and I reeled it in. I was a little kid and I ran home to my Mom and Dad and said, “Wow, check this out!” Here I am, you know, 50 years later and I’m like, “Wow, check this out!” That was my first fish in the ice and they were about the same size, ironically enough. I drop it down there and everybody’s kind of excited about it and I’m setting the hook and you know it’s a, this is a social event and that’s what’s really cool about this ice fishing. A lot of times fishing up in this part of the world is very social. The Garmin PanOptix is a great choice for this type of fishing, I mean when you look at the screen, you actually can see that fish just swim all the way back down to the bottom right there. You can watch your bait go down, you can see them react, come up off the bottom, you can watch everything go down. Then you still have the sensitivity of obvi- ously the bite when you’re holding your rod in your hand. There’s no words that truly put what you get to see in this live type of a fishing situation.

Preloaded with industry-leading LakeVü HD maps that cov- er more than 17,000 U.S. lakes, the echoMAP CHIRP 73cv includes more than 13,000 HD lakes with 1-foot contours shoreline to shoreline – two times more than the compe- tition. Like all Garmin chartplotters, the echoMAP CHIRP 73cv is known for its easy-to-use interface that allows for customized combination screens, so anglers can easily ac- cess flasher, map, Panoptix views and more.

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