 Whoa boy Here we go. Well, fish and freaks welcome on back to the channel Thank you for being here and today we are gonna be in my little creation cave right here This is where I edit videos prepare for adventures and such just behind this wall is my garage otherwise known as the dangle and woodworking cave and That's where I do my my outdoor equipment toodling and such which by the way today. We're talking about live scope and Imaging technology underwater and the future of fishing just a side note before we get into the topic I'm looking for inspiration from you guys. I've been reading comments Just want to say thanks to all you that are dropping me some good comments and stuff right now So I appreciate it. I appreciate it in today's video. 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It's expensive for the units and the transducers But what I'm seeing now on the water is I'm gonna say At least a third of anglers probably more like half of anglers that I see in Bass boats on the water now when I go to lakes have live scope imaging technology and I could tell because they're just Staring at it this is on being out as I do myself and you you recognize that now so what we're gonna be talking about is how this technology is So amazing Helping us catch more fish, but then also the future of it. So when I first saw live scope technology I was in a friend of mine's boat Tom Reddington FLW tournament angler We were on a clear lake. It was like Austin in Texas or Lake Travis and He was showing me this and I was like what in the world. I mean How does this work? Like how is this really gonna help like I really didn't see it then I was he was showing me it and I was like looking at fish But we weren't catching like visually seeing the fish come up to the bait or anything We're just kind of looking at fish. He's like, here's one over here. No, let me paint over here And here's one over here. You can see this and I it was different But I was like, yeah, you know Now my 2d or whatever I can I can get a bite just fine side imaging Whatever I didn't see it as a clear advantage when I first saw it as I started to get into other anglers boats And see it. I was like, you know, this is this is kind of cool And then eventually when I got it on the silver bullet my boat That's when I really started playing with it and looking at it go. Okay, this is This is this is a whole different program because it is not even when you start paying attention to it and fishing with it It is a completely different style of fishing. There's really there's live scoping and then there's going fishing That's what it's turning into. So you've got Garmin with the live scope You've got a hummingbird has 360 which I don't even have but it's it's a similar technology The point is we're getting better and better at looking at fish in real time So if you're a tournament angler knowing and understanding and utilizing live scope is not even a question Whether you should be doing it now It would be like if you were in a a log cutting competition Using an axe versus a chainsaw chainsaw obviously being live scope imaging technology I'm sure everyone's familiar with it now, but I'm just reference referencing it to anyone that doesn't know what this is It is it is completely game-changing and fishing. It is different in a way from when when I first started bass fishing using 2d sonar So I have to look at it and and formulate you really have to think in your mind Well, I think this is I think this is a group of rocks here and a brush pile And I see some arcs right here off this edge. I think they're probably Bass I'm not sure but I'm gonna stop the boat. I'm gonna drop the troll motor. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw a marker buoy out Just back then you didn't have Spot lock and all that and then I'm gonna I'm gonna fish this spot and see what's down there I'm gonna feel what's down there with my Carolina rig or throw a big crankbait or something like that And then side imaging came along when hummingbird side imaging came along That's when I really started tournament fishing Doing more higher level of tournaments same sort of thing everyone had to have it You had to learn it and it was a huge advantage because then you could look at your 2d And compare it with the the real-looking imaging of this of the side What's going on? I can see it. That is a tree. Oh, that is a group of rocks right there. That's a sunken boat I didn't know that thing was there or a wee bed. There's a wee bed out here That's that's what we're catching these fish in little things that you you just don't really notice If you're just 2d and cast it out there and then down imaging came along and then you could really compare What's under the boat real time? That's one of the biggest Biggest learning factors I I've had in bass fishing is using that split screen of 2d and down imaging And comparing those two and then really learning Okay, that is what that is what that is and then detailing. What kind of fish are those? You know, oh, those are carp or these are bass. These are crappie. I can tell the way they're suspended right here They're grouped up So it keeps advancing and now with life scope you could do all of that and more you can say That's definitely a rock right there and that is definitely a bass and that bass is sitting on the left Downward side of that rock right there and he's chasing a bluegill around that I'm just gonna put the scope on it. I'm gonna throw my jig past that rock. Oh, it looks like I need to readjust my cast Throwback it. I mean you can get get them on the nose and I've done it with crappie a bunch It's a great example. I've done it with bass too, but my crappie fish a lot now I love doing it and life scoping them is it's not like shooting fish in a barrel, but Goodness, if they're if they are just sitting on a spot and you can life scope them You can really dial them in so this last year and a half just learning it is so exciting It's awesome. You're getting to really see and understand things. Oh, this is I've been fishing this for years I didn't know I really like to sit on this side of this thing all of that but where I started to realize that this could have an impact on fisheries in the future is when I went life scoping for crappie. I went with a crappie fishing a tournament crappie fishing professional guide I did a video on it. It was on Truman Lake. You guys go back watch it was with Kyler Beckman and We were catching crappie Life scoping really learned a lot from him on it But the crazy thing was that almost all of our fish was say 90% of our fish were suspended female crappie and Just judging from other anglers That were coming in fish that they were catching were mostly male crappies that were up in the trees and we were specifically targeting these bigger crappie, which are the females and They're in a resting Part of their their life cycle at that point They're just resting to to move up and spawn all these fish were full of eggs Of course every fish we caught it's legal There's no discrimination between male and females are just going after the bigger ones The bigger ones just happen to be females and you could tell on the life scope Which are the big ones have the biggest signatures when a fish is suspended like that and open water They're very very hard to catch Traditionally, that's the hardest fish to catch bass crappie. Whatever is a fish that's just suspended It's hanging out. It's not around any cover feeds every once in a while. You know, it's almost pelagic So that's when I started realizing. Well If everybody gets on this program We're gonna see a decline in crappie because all these females these big females are about to reproduce for being caught And fillet you almost never turn back a turn back a crappie. Luckily crappie are prolific Reproducers, they have a ton of eggs. They make a lot more crappie. So that is that is a good thing and they reach a bigger size Pretty quick one of the first things I thought of after that was Well, can you do this with bass and you know, Kyler was like, uh, yeah, of course, of course you can Then I came back and went to my local lake I started noticing suspended big bass off of points And I caught a few of them. They're they're more difficult way more difficult to catch than the crappie were Then we also just saw the huge big bass explosion Happening on oh ivy with a lot of those bass being suspended being caught and it's it's it's been happening everywhere It's just kind of quietly No one's really talking about the long term effects of what we're doing with life scope And life scoping is not the only factor that affects our fisheries. There's other things I'll be doing other videos. We'll just say that I want to start the conversation here. I want to hear from you guys in the comments What do you think about life scope? For the future and this is how I want you to think about it if there was a magical tool That you could go to the water with that unveiled Where every fish was every Notable big bass was that gave you a high probability of catching that fish Would you would you want that? Uh, would you want to utilize that every time you went out of the lake? Or do you want to keep some of the mysticism around fishing where it's this kind of mythical thing? We don't really know what's down there that that section Of timber looks really good or this and that Uh, and every once in a while you catch that big one And it's really special because it's just you know, mythical thing or Do you want to know exactly? Oh, I see that. Oh, that's uh, it's eight and a half pounds right there We're gonna throw that jig out there knock them on the nose Not saying you catch every fish like that on life scope. You definitely don't but is that something you want? Everyone to have or would you want to just keep it for yourself? Conversation, so let me know in the comments what you think about that and what you would want And what do you think about the future of our fisheries? Using this technology because it's not going to stop right here of life scope We've all seen the evolution over the last 20 years If you've been paying attention if you if you've been alive that long of Graps it started out with paper graphs even before that And then we've seen 2d and then we see side imaging then we see down imaging and then we see Live scope and 360 What's next? What's next? I propose we might have some ocular setup. I mean like a wearable device some sort of headset I piece that goes on Allows you to look through the water where you have a transducer scanning. It's giving you the Real-time readouts of distance You know where basically where exactly do you need to cast? And it'll be like a heads-up display something like that. That's where I I think it's probably gonna have I could be wrong But eventually we are gonna get to the point where there's no mystery anymore There's no mystery of what is down there How big the fish is how many of them are there? Are we sure about the species there won't be any of that? So is that what we all want? Or do we want to keep some of the mystery behind fishing? How do you stop it though? How do you stop the technology? I don't know if you can you can't put life scope back in the box So let's talk about solutions. So when I was on the water the other day doing some life scoping I noticed something That got me thinking about a theory maybe something that could happen with the evolution Of bass with the technology changing. I want you guys to think about this as well I was looking at a a crappie fishing. This is a brush pile You know, there's there's bass that hang around brush piles as well I catch a lot of bass out of brush balls in the summer But I was looking at crappie and I kept seeing A bass that would that would come over to the brush pile. I was sitting right on top of it And the crappie I was catching And it and it would get kind of close and then it would back up it would get kind of close And it would back up and I got to thinking What if that is a bass that has recognized the ping and the sound of life scoping that strong click Most bass we catch and release So they reckon they could recognize that sound and start to run away from it Or swim away from it when they hear it whereas a crappie most of the time, you know I'm not letting the crappie go if it's legal length. I'm putting that in the boat Its life is done. It's going to the grease It it might have picked up on the live scope for a little bit, but it's in the boat now So it doesn't really matter whereas a bass we're letting them go tournament fishing letting them go They could start to pick up on this and push away from it One of the things that I think could really help bass and fisheries are being heavily scoped is Grass tons of shallow cover and you could see bass evolve into staying shallow more in the summer Whereas you get more and more boats just out there with click click click click click Just clicking all on these offshore spots in these places that have always been Havens for bass to go out and relax and recover and post spawn and then pre-spawn Uh, they have no recovery point anymore. There's nowhere to hide in the lake So you might see bass start to push into as thick of cover as they can where that's like the last The last place where you can't just peer in and penetrate through and really target bass Thick grass, you know, really heavy brush and cover and it's shallow You know the live scope is it's not really effective in that less than a few feet of water So you could see the adaptation of that Down the road, but interesting thought and something I noticed while I was fishing So I think from an ecological standpoint fisheries standpoint really We need to be focusing on Uh, how do we give more habitat to our fish? How do we get more fish in our lakes that are just getting hit so hard? Just in general fishermen are the most in tune especially tournament anglers people that fish all the time They're in tune with with what is going on in the lakes and they're going to know They're going to recognize when fisheries are starting to decline a little bit. So I think we need to stock more fish. I think we need to have more Fish fish stocking and a lot of the lakes that are getting pressured and there's other solutions that I'm going to mention in another Videos come down the road, but I do want to know from you guys. What do you think? like what's a solution that you think is is going to help in the future because It's we can't just be thinking about next year. We got to think about Five ten years down the road here How are we going to protect our fisheries from the increase in this technology? That is is really having an impact now because I care about the future of fisheries. I care about My kids and all young anglers. I want them to have a fantastic experience when they go out to the lake I don't want it to be so tough in the future Where you just have to be an expert to go catch them I think fishing should be fun for everybody and you want to get Young people hooked on it the first time they go, you know Not making a really difficult tragic experience that takes 10 times to To to have a good impact and make make you want to do it again. So That is my two or three cents or a dollar Whatever on this subject right now, but I'm going to continue using life scope because it's there. It's available I'm just starting to think in the future What do we need to do to keep on snatching fish? I'd like So thank y'all very much for tuning in today and I'll also Mitch and I was reading comments over at the googin labs page And a lot of you are really digging that If anyone that hasn't heard of the googin lab page, it is linked down below. 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