Everyone complaining about livescope ruining fishing has clearly never used it, it surely doesn’t make big fish jump in the boat. The guys who are good at it have a ton of time in with it. Having Lowrance version since it first came available I can 100% say I caught more fish without it, but I love to scope. Come tourney time when we fish them most of the time we wind up going back to just fishing. Anyone who can say it’s cheating or an upper hand has hands down never used it or still dont understand how to use it. Tom straight will give his garmin settings up to anyone who buys the course, which is a drop in the bucket when you already have that much invested. Livescope is the equlivent of a scope on a rifle, big deer don’t hardly stand a chance vs open sights. Same goes for chubs. Everyone bitching about chubs in a tourney have the same opportunity as everyone else to source them, they are either to lazy to get their own or to cheap to buy them. congrats to the guys that won and if they got it done purely with scope nice work, one day I hope to have that amount of boat control dialed too.
As far as water in fish, those guys are scum. Sad part is it probably wasn’t even about the money. The amount of money spent on boats, gear and everything else at tourneys these days I don’t know how many even do it for the money. I know we surely dont but it is nice when you get paid.