It was the perfect “Aha moment”: My very first week on the water with my new Garmin Panoptix transducer, on Lake Pleasant, just outside of Phoenix. I was as new as you could possibly be to Panoptix – I had just been added to the Garmin Pro Team, had just gotten my GPSMAP 7608, 7610 and 7612xsv units installed, and was literally using it for the first time.
I had already seen some crazy stuff with what Garmin calls an “all-seeing sonar”, and had just pulled up on a spot to throw an Alabama rig. I’ll never forget what I saw: I had my eyes locked on my 7608xsv screen on my front deck, and literally watched a fish come out of a tree, swim up to my bait, and then turn around and swim back into the tree. Read more…