The Humminbird HELIX ICE Conversion Kit with MEGA Live converts your HELIX 8, 9, or 10 G3N/G4N (with MEGA Imaging) from a summer boat fishfinder into a full ice fishing system. MEGA Live transducer for real-time live sonar through the hole, Dual Spectrum CHIRP ICE transducer for traditional 2D, premium shuttle, multi-piece pole, 20Ah lithium battery with charger, and all the cabling and hardware. Pull the HELIX off the boat in winter and run it on the ice.
The Humminbird HELIX ICE Conversion Kit with MEGA Live is the kit that turns your boat HELIX into a real ice fishing rig. If you’ve already invested in a HELIX 8, 9, or 10 G3N or G4N with MEGA Imaging on the boat, this kit gives you everything you need to use the same display through the hole in winter. MEGA Live for real-time fish-watching, Dual Spectrum CHIRP for traditional ice 2D, a premium shuttle to carry it all, the multi-piece pole, and a 20-amp-hour lithium battery to power the whole rig for a full day on the ice.
What MEGA Live brings to ice fishing is genuinely transformative. The transducer drops through the hole and gives you live video of the water column, your bait position, and any fish that come to investigate. You watch a fish move toward your jig, you see how it reacts, you adjust the jig action in real time, you watch the strike develop. It’s the difference between blind fishing with traditional flasher-style sonar and actually seeing what’s happening below you. Once you’ve fished with MEGA Live through the ice, going back to flasher-only feels like fishing with the lights off.
The Dual Spectrum CHIRP ICE transducer in the kit is the second sonar option that fishes alongside MEGA Live. It runs traditional 2D sonar with 3/4-inch target separation and CHIRP Interference Rejection, which is the working ice sonar most anglers used for years before live sonar came along. Some ice setups are easier to read on traditional 2D, especially for finesse fishing where you want a clear vertical column readout instead of the dynamic MEGA Live view. The kit gives you both. Switch between them on the HELIX or split-screen them.
The premium shuttle is the carry-and-mount unit. Master power switch on the front, two USB ports for charging your phone or other accessories, quick-connect SAE power cables that disconnect cleanly between trips, and a large handle for hauling the rig from the truck out to your spot. Multiple quarter-inch-twenty mounting points on the shuttle let you attach rod holders, accessory mounts, GPS heads, or other gear with standard photography-grade mounting hardware. Two integrated rod holders come with the unit. The battery sits inside the shuttle under a hinged cover. Cable and transducer management is built into the shuttle so the whole rig stays organized when you’re moving from hole to hole.
The multi-piece pole breaks down into three sections for varying ice depths. On a 12-inch ice cover with 8 feet of water under it, run all three sections. On thinner ice or shallower water, run two or one. The compact stored length matters when you’re trying to fit the whole kit in a sled or in the back of an SUV.
Power. The included 20-amp-hour lithium battery is sized for a full day of ice fishing with the HELIX running both sonars active. Lithium chemistry is the right call for cold-weather use because lithium handles freezing temperatures much better than the AGM and SLA batteries that older ice flasher rigs ran on. The battery has two USB ports for charging your phone or other accessories from the same battery, plus a built-in battery life indicator so you know your charge state at a glance. The charger ships in the kit. Plan an overnight charge between trips.
Compatibility check. This conversion kit works with HELIX 8, HELIX 9, and HELIX 10 in the G3N or G4N generations, but only the variants that have MEGA Imaging built in. If your HELIX is non-MEGA (DI or SI without the Plus designation in the name), the kit will not properly drive the MEGA Live transducer because the underlying HELIX hardware doesn’t have MEGA processing. Confirm your HELIX model and the MEGA Imaging capability before ordering. The model is printed on a sticker on the back of the unit.
The kit is for HELIX displays specifically. It does not include a HELIX display, because the assumption is that you already own one for boat use and you want to share it with the ice setup. If you don’t yet have a HELIX, you’ll buy the display separately as a complete unit (and then you can use this conversion kit to take it ice fishing in winter).
Setup. Pull the HELIX off the boat at end of season, mount it to the shuttle using the included MEGA Live ICE Adapter Kit hardware, connect the SAE power cables to the lithium battery, and connect the transducers. Drop the MEGA Live and Dual Spectrum CHIRP ICE transducers down the hole and the kit is fishing. The first install takes 30 to 60 minutes. After that, switching between boat and ice configurations is a few minutes.
What’s in the box. MEGA Live transducer, MEGA Live ICE Adapter Kit (the cabling and mounting hardware to connect MEGA Live to the HELIX), Dual Spectrum CHIRP ICE transducer, the multi-piece pole, the premium shuttle with integrated rod holders and battery compartment, the 20Ah lithium battery with two USB ports and battery life indicator, the lithium battery charger, the quick-connect SAE power cables, install hardware, and the documentation pack.
2-year limited Humminbird warranty on the conversion kit components. Same-day shipping before 3 PM ET on in-stock units.
