Gone are the days when ice fishing meant one or two people sit huddled in a small shack, staring vacantly at a hole cut into a frozen pond, simply waiting for the fish to bite. With the Garmin Striker 5 Ice Fishing Bundle, you are now able to take the offensive in a traditionally passive past time. Generally, the most difficult part of ice fishing, aside from passing the time between bites on the line, is identifying where is the best place to fish. Obviously, with the water frozen over and you sitting atop it, there is no real opportunity to cast a line, and your ability to entice the fish with subtle rod work is minimized by the small hole cut into the ice and only being able to work along the vertical axis.That is where Striker’s CHIRP transducer becomes a godsend. The transducer takes all the guesswork out of locating the fish, so all you have to do is find the right location—with the transducer’s help—and wait for them to bite.
The CHIRP transducer works along a sonar mechanism whereby it sends out radio waves along a spectrum of frequencies and uses the returning radio waves that bounces back from fish to locate your targets. Moreover, the transducer utilizes a range of frequencies, both low “pitched” and high, to best help locate your prey. Essentially, high pitched frequency radio waves will more clearly and powerfully respond to obstacles—in this instance, the fish—to provide a clearer picture o