Like a LCD graph in the summer, portable flashers show depth, fish, bottom-content, and structure. But that s where the similarities end. On the ice, flashers offer something no other piece of electronics can. Their concentrated power is capable of simultaneously marking your tiny jig and the fish that s about to eat it. Ice anglers have a choice between two types of flashers, LED and liquid crystal.
Motor driven, their back lit circular faces represent objects in one or three colors.
The ColorPoint is a fine example of a three color LED flasher. There is a company who takes the positives of liquid crystal and puts them in a flasher built for cold weather use. Zercom uses military grade liquid crystal in their portable flashers, and this stuff doesn t freeze. Another upside of liquid crystal technology is that motors aren t needed, thus providing six times the battery life of motor driven units. Zercom s portable LCF-40 is the latest and greatest in liquid crystal flashers.