Lowrance

the old pan optics, right?

Well, even after that, um, with life of like what I have, the 32, but like before, uh, Lawrence and Hummingbird came out with theirs, like, you know, it was kind of, um, you know, if they're not, if they're sponsored by those other companies, I don't think it was a good look to run a life scope when, if you're sponsored by Humminbird or Lowrance.

Right.

Um, and

you know and it's just a constant like and then and that's how they that's how these companies are able to negotiate you down so much and actually undervalue uh you like you may feel undervalued i'm sure a lot of anglers out there feel like dude i'm undervalued but i gotta take what i can get like you know talk about here and talking about being a crumb snatcher hell everyone's crumb snatchers in this you know in the game of trying to get sponsorship and stuff like that you know and one of the things i always thought of uh and we'll go into your guide here before we end the show but like I always wondered, you know, as these big tours like lost those big Walmart deals and those National Guard deals and Citgo deals and stuff.

Now everyone's really, truly an independent contractor out there hunting for their own stuff.

Why hasn't companies like Garmin and Lowrance and Yamaha and Mercury like truly made business? big teams like five to ten man teams where it's like dude you were team yamaha and you guys are getting an eighty thousand dollar a year salary you know stuff like that like do you think it's because of how social media has come about in the the world of influencing and the reality that maybe anglers aren't as valuable to these companies as they used to be before

yeah for sure i mean um you can do all the marketing you need to with AI and, and, and, uh, you know, or whatever, um, all, all free stuff on the internet.

Yes, flashers only.

Man, that old Lowrance right there, you just used to ding over a brush pile.

Oh, dude, come on

with it.

And the first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to go in one of them.

I'm going to have, so on the console of my boat, I run two Lowrance's, two 12s.

On the left side, I keep three quarters of a screen of mapping and one quarter of 2D sonar with a through hole transducer so I can get depth and detail at speed at all times.

I'm going to run in one of those creeks and I'm just going to go probably 30 to 40 miles per hour until I start seeing balls of bait fish.

And by God, if you're looking for bait, you're definitely not going to see it.

Yeah, that's super important.

I mean, the way Phoenix does mine, when they build my boat, I just send them a Lowrance through-hole transducer over there, and they just glue it in before they put the top cap on the boat.

That's the easiest way to put one in.

They were very different.

Omnia came from two developers from Lowrance.

I don't think many people realize that.

Omnia wasn't a tackle shop as much as it was trying to create technology that would essentially assist in the tackle purchasing stream.

I've been smashing those and, again, put the catch scent on the cloned prawn, shrimp flavour, and, man, it goes really well.

While we're doing that, and I should send you the screenshot, with the Lowrance, we've got the side scan, right? So we're running around with the Elite FS9 on side scan, and we see this big bull shark in the side scan, and I'll have to send it to you, Al.

It's pretty good.

It's a pure silhouette of a bull shark and we, going off the scale of the sounder, it's two and a half, three metres long.

Good.

Okay, Pete, thank you very much for that.

And good tips on that Lowrance gear too.

You'll only become a better fisherman if you get Lowrance.