Need help in deciding whether to go with the Garmin Live Scope or Lowrances Active imaging
Seen some comparisons on youtube they look about the same.
Does anyone have experience with both or specifically with the Lowrance?
I know eveyone who has a Livescope says it the only way to go but?

Buy what you feel comfortable with. The advantage of livescope is that it does show you that fish are in the area. But I have cast to multiple fish and have not had a hook up. Other times I have. If you fish for crappie it really has an advantage. Bass dont usually school like that and usually are on the move. I had Lowrance units and switched to Garmin when I bought the livescope system. I will say that Garmin are really simple to use and has made my fishing less frustrating. But if you have Lowrance, especially the latest models that support their version of livescope I do would probably stick with Lowrance. I had the Gen 3 units that I really struggled with and was going to replace them with new units. So it was easy except for paying for them to switch to all Garmin.

We have Lowrance only, easy to use Active Live Target, had friend with Garmin Livescope and he said same as his. No problems with unit, great for crappie and locating brush where bass hide. If you have
Lowrance go with Active Target.

I compared them side by side today.

Flip a coin is my consensus. They are almost identical in their performance and usefulness.

I have AT, since I already had up to date Lowrance graphs.

I've heard from the BassTank that some of the new shipments of ActiveTarget - they're having problems with? Has anyone heard this? Said that if you are awaiting a delivery of Active Target Transducer it might be further delayed because of this. I think this is on Lowrance's End.

Old news. I ordered one from BassPro and it had a defective ducer. They wanted to back order a replacement. I sent it all back and got a refund. One week later, I bought one from Shut-Up-and-Fish and it has been perfect. The original shipments had some hiccups. The “new” style transducer has a ferrite ring about 4-5” from where the wiring goes in it.

I’d assume that pretty much every unit for sale now is a solid unit without issues.

The other comment I will make is water quality can make a difference on how it seems my Livescope unit performs. I have fished the same lake and same places on the lake for over a year now. When water changes occur at the lake, I have noticed some differences in how my unit performs. I especially noticed a difference when there is a big algae bloom.

Thanks for the insight. Anyone know how long until they bulk send out these "new" ducers? I'm still waiting from theBassTank.