Hmmm?

I'm ready, but I don't think my wife is

Interesting. Now that I just spent a lot of money to get caught up I am sure I will be wanting more for Christmas!

Great stuff coming out.

From the post that I've seen from Humminbird I can't get that they are goin with the live concept but they are pushing it will be clearer.....
Not sure if that's clearer live or clearer than their recently improved SI,DI and 2D.....
I'm sure it's gonna make us dig deep to own it either way.....LOL

For anyone to compete with Garmin's Livescope they will need to get into "real-time fishing". SI and DI are for searching for fish and or structure. "real-time fishing" is for catching them. Lowrance attempted but just not the same. Humminbird has always been geared heavy for the Bass guys. If all they do is make 360 imaging with Mega Imaging they will not be competing in "real-time fishing" Since the release of Livescope we all want to see our bait, bait presentation, and the way the fish are reacting. "with fair pricing points"
It will be interesting as we go forward...

I will share is that I can point the remote towards my next waypoint and click it and the motor will go to the nearest point and lockdown. It will hold "spot on".

I am so anxious to hear more!

My hope is that the Garmin TM interfaces with Livescope and that they come out with a pole that can be aimed independently of the trolling motor yet it deploys with the trolling motor. I need a new TM and want LiveScope badly.

Our Sales Rep and our Educator have only shared small tid-bits about the motor. 1 I will share is that I can point the remote towards my next waypoint and click it and the motor will go to the nearest point and lockdown. It will hold "spot on".
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David, enlighten me. I've been doing this for almost two years with Lowrance and Xi5. If you mean you point the remote in the general area and it goes there, I understand that but I have waypoints near each other, select which one, use the touchscreen, and the TM goes there and Anchors. If I am interpreting your comment correctly, I just don't see that as a biggie. JMO.

David do you think they will ever do a all in one transducer? LS, SI AND DI.....

Are you there this week? If so report to us your thoughts on what you see...any “game changers?”

I saw the price tag on the Garmin trolling motor is $3100

Just got me to thinking... so what would be a Texas equivalent to ICAST trade/fishing show that a civilian could go to?

Checked out the video of the HB Booth on your FB Page. I just want to know ONE thing from ICAST. . . Is HB coming out with something to compete with LiveScope?

Thanks for the great reports! ! !

I was really surprised that Motorguide chose not to go with brushless motor technology, but glad to see the return of the Tour edition, and now with spotlock available in the Pro Tour series.

All these devices have different purposes, so they do not compete with each other, they play in a different space.

Below I show what I have, “manufacture - device - device purpose, how I use it”.. red font competitive space

1) Minn Kota - TM - get to spot, stay on spot
2) Garmin - LS - real time, for fishing
3) Lowrance - Maps - I use this unit for maps only, my way points. I can use this device at console and move upfront next to LS.
4) Hummingbird- SS, DS, 2D - I use to find structure.

None of these devices talk with each other. The first manufacturer to tie all this together wins. It would be nice if my hummingbird maps could share waypoints with my Lowrance, but not a huge need. But what I wish more than anything is my Lowrance “Maps” would talk (share waypoints) with my TM. This is why Lowrance and Garmin are rolling out their own TM.

If Minn Kota is smart, they would roll out their own graphical maps device. The current ipilot you can save waypoints, so they see the market need here, but I need big graphical maps screen, where I can name way points, export and import waypoints from my PC (google earth). This would be easy for Minn Kota to do, if they don’t do this, they will lose market share big time to Lowrance and Garmin in the TM space.

Waypoints are not part of any mapping, it is GPS data. Mapping is just a background on the Chart Plotter display.

Minn Kota - TM - get to spot, stay on spot

Unless you get the model I got in 2014. I refer to spot lock as wander around and bash into stuff. I just tie up somewhere.

I understand that. Semantics. When I say maps, I’m not talking “background”, I could really careless about the background, a black and white waypoint plotter display would work for me, as long as I could zoom in and out, maybe a simple outline of the lake would be nice. Minn Kota should provide that with their trolling motor.

Interesting what you say about ipolit link, wish I would have known that before I just bought my new TM, I might have got that. I did talk to Minn Kota, they told me their TM cannot navigate to hummingbird waypoints, I guess they were just talking about ipilo.