I have been using my Vexilar Boundary Waters LC-10 for quite a few years and I am going to make a change this year. I am tempted to just bring one of my Vexilar flashers up, I really love knowing what is going on right under my canoe, but I am open to other suggestions.

I used to have a CLC-200 until it went bad and Vexilar couldn't service it. I miss it terribly. While a flasher might be nicer to show you what is right under the canoe, the weight of the 12 volt battery would be more than I want to carry. There are other portable fish finders, but nothing as compact and easy on batteries as this was. I don't even remember what I replaced it with, but I'd keep using the LC-10 until it dies.

I love my Boundary Waters LC-10. I still believe it is one of the best canoe country locators out there. The LC-10 will run for over a week on one set of AA batteries. I have often thought about upgrading, but the thought of creating the battery pack and all the extra batteries needed to run the new locators just doesn't seem worth it to me. Using a flasher would be kind of cool to see maybe some suspended fish like crappie, but if you are fishing walleye, 95% of the walleye will be in within in bottom two feet of the lake. All I want in a locator in the BWCAW is an accurate depth reading and something that shows bottom contour and the LC-10 does just that efficiently and effectively.

On a side note, 2 years ago I got snagged on a windy day and my line ended up wrapped around the transducer cable of my LC-10. I was using 6lb Seaguar Invizx and it sliced through my cable about an inch above the transducer exposing the wire under the plastic. It would no longer allow the locator to give a reading. Upon getting home, I emailed Vexilar seeing if they could fix the cable, but they said the cut was to close to the transducer and could not be fixed. To my surprise, they still had some new old stock transducers for the LC-10 lying around. I think I had to pay $50 for a new one, but I was just happy they still had one available seeing as how they haven't made the LC-10 for nearly 20 years.

The LC-10 had a mode while not exactly like a flasher it could be used in real time. Just put the LC-10 in A-MODE and on the far right screen you will see your lure/fish in real time if vertical jigging. Operates similar to a Marcum showdown ice flasher. It is crude compared to a flasher but weighs a lot less. For most purposes I don’t see a flasher working well out of a canoe like it would on the ice YMMV though.

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Flasher all day long if I'm after walleye. Bottom seperation, can actually tell if there's fish down there. Mud bite on the lakes I fish that time of year, they're not going to show up as marks on any cheap fish finder. Ducer clamped to gunwale rods length away flip ducer in with paddle when it's time to move.

A buddy had an LC BW unit. I have coveted one for years. I wish they still made them.

Thanks for the input guys, looks like I will continue running the LC and spend my money on something else that I don't really need.