Today I'm going to be doing a video about how to use a flasher. Seems kind of basic but there's a lot of people that don't know how to use a flasher. They don't know what it is, what are the buttons do, what are the knobs do. You know how do you read it? So I'm going to kind of simplify everything and the best way that I can for you guys. All right then let's get to it. I have the Markham M1. They have a lot of different versions of the flasher. I have the Markham M1 which is the most basic of the M models by Markham. I think when I bought this one it was $300 at Flea Farm that was last year beginning in 2018. So basically what you got here, oh let me get up a little closer. You can see what's going on here. All right so for starters first thing you want to do when you drop your transducer in the water is you want to grab this bottom knob here, turn it to on. That's basically your power. First and foremost the most basic thing that you need to know about a flasher every time you turn it on is this big line up here is where you are sitting. This is your water column so if you were to drop your lure in you would drop it in from here and you would see it go like this. This is the bottom. The first solid thing you see from where you are sitting is the bottom. All the rest of this is static. Don't even pay attention to any of this over here. This is the bottom and between that is going to be fish and your lure. In the center here you have your numbers. It tells you basically how deep you are. Zero feet, one feet, two feet, three feet and it goes all the way around. Right now I'm in very shallow water. I'm only in three feet of water. The thing about this is it does not like to work in shallow water very well. It doesn't read anything closer up to you than about two and a half feet down. So the best bet if you're going to use a flasher, number one is to make sure you're in deeper water. Otherwise I would recommend some sort of camera or something. The cool thing about this is that it picks up really small jigs. I'm about to throw just a really small tungsten down there. Super small. All right, I'm going to go ahead and drop the center now. You should see it come right off the top. Up there it is. See down at the bottom there? That is my lure. The sad thing about this Markham M1, there's one thing that I don't like about it, is see how it cuts off at just after two feet there. It does not read anything higher than about two and a half feet. So if you're planning on using this sufficient shallow water, it's probably not going to work too well. Another thing you guys should know is your gain. If you're not picking up your lure there, if it's not, you're not picking it up on the screen here. All you do is turn this knob up. See how it's getting wider? You're picking up and you're sending up more signal. Now if you turn it down, everything's gone. You don't pick up anything. So when you turn this knob up, the more gain you put, the less battery you're going to have. For the day. The interference button. All that is, if you're fishing around a bunch of friends or you're on a group of people, you better fairly close by. You can push the interference button and it's going to kind of cut out everybody else's signal. Otherwise you're going to get a lot of static and interference. The zoom button I personally have never used before, so I can't give you guys any input. But I do know if you're in deeper parts of the lake, or if you're in really deep water, it helps you zone in on, say, a section of the water that you want to kind of zone into. The system is very basic. There's really not much to it. Like I said, this is the M1 model of the Marcom. They have the M3 M5. The way you charge the M1 is just right in the back here. Just got a little flap. You pull it through a little charger, plug it into the wall. It doesn't take very long to charge. Yeah, I'm in very shallow water. Very clear water right now. I don't know if you guys can probably see my lure down there. Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm in very shallow water here. I guess the number one thing I would say about at least this M1 Marcom is if you're going to be using it, don't plan on using it in very shallow water, I actually have an underwater camera, which is what I use in shallow water. It's got the essentials and it's one of the cheaper models. And it gets the job done. I'm catching fish with this thing. I've had it for this will be my second season. Haven't had any issues, no battery problems, nothing. As long as you take care of it, it should last. So if you enjoyed my video, make sure you hit thumbs up. And don't forget to subscribe, man. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. All right, I'll catch you guys next time.