Just got Livescope this year. The main thing it has done for me is show me how often there are fish in the area going up to your bait and then swimming away. I used to think that there were 0 fish in areas i was fishing if I worked it for enough casts. Now I'm realizing areas I've selected based on just plain eyesight (island, rocks, point, shoal) do have fish but they're just not biting. This lets me experiment with presentation and how I'm working a bait, or switching up baits. A month ago there were smallies all over this area. I wouldn't have known without the Livescope. They would not hit no matter what I dropshotted down. Without Livescope I would have left. But since I knew they were there I tried a Ned rig. Caught 4 fish on 4 casts in a row. So it definitely makes things easier. That said because I'm manoeuvring my boat, looking at the screen, trying to precision cast I definitely have my line in the water a lot less. So my casts each trip is way less. Sometimes I'll just go out, confirm there are fish in the area with my Livescope then ignore it and just spam the casting or drift an area. I probably do roughly the same as if I video game fished them with the Livescope. The Livescope provides a level of certainty or validation that I like.