Don is a good guy.
No excuses now Dannie😂

…W

 

Don is a good guy.
No excuses now Dannie😂

…W

Na I still have an excuse it’s called I suck at fishing! 🤣 that’s why I’m only mud puddle certified

 

If i remember right denny passed it onto me, thank him before me lol. I got my use out of it but bigger plans in the future hopefully!

 

As in @D schuerenberg Denny?

 

Denny looks like you started a gift that keeps on giving!

 

Good deal when you up grade pass it on

 

I am really glad to see everyone looking out for Grasshopper.

These units still have a little learning curve but Humminbird is a little easier to use with their menu setup.

Look up that operators manual and dive in. Asking questions will help you learn also but you need to use the menu and try different things to learn.

Thanks Denny and Don. your both good guys.

 

The side and down scan shows structure pretty good but a 50 pound fish is like a grain of rice on side scan

 

Side and down scan can definitely be hard to interpret but one must always look to see if shadows are there helping with the explanation. The shadows may often be what provides the most information.

One problem I always used to have was I would go thru the manual and read about each of the adjustments that were possible. I would get so wrapped around the axle that I would convince myself that I couldn't possible remember that much.

Then a good while later, a YouTube video really helped me out. It said when you first setup a fish finder many of the necessary changes only need to be made once. With those, there is often a startup guide that I'll take you thru what is needed. Set it and forget it. After that, there are a small number of adjustments that each each category like sonar, navigation and so on might need. The sensitivity may be fine for a good while but then the water gets muddy and there is too much clutter on the screen. It generally just needs a slight tweak, maybe three clicks one way or the other. Learning this taught me that even though I was just a simple country boy, I could actually learn to use these things.

The newer units often have several setting that can be set to automatic and the companies have gotten the automatic setting very close to what is needed.

Anyway, you can't learn how to make adjustments without actually doing it. repetition will last longer than just doing something once and moving on.

There I go again, it is 1:38am and I can't help but write a book. sorry

tight lines

 

Lowerance has purdy much told me “good luck” I had one rep tell me my unit is not adjustable and when I said yes it is I had this same unit on a different boat and I could and did adjust it he just says it must have been a different model. Other than not showing structure it’s a good unit the maps and gps on it are awesome but overall extremely frustrating
One nice thing about the hummingbird for me also is my dad uses a helix so I know a little bit about it already definitely not a pro but it’s not a completely new thing for me.
Denny your definitely right about the side scan not really showing fish though we never saw catfish on it just found structures and fished the structure. They were there though we just couldn’t see the catfish

 

Lowerance has purdy much told me “good luck” I had one rep tell me my unit is not adjustable and when I said yes it is I had this same unit on a different boat and I could and did adjust it he just says it must have been a different model. Other than not showing structure it’s a good unit the maps and gps on it are awesome but overall extremely frustrating
One nice thing about the hummingbird for me also is my dad uses a helix so I know a little bit about it already definitely not a pro but it’s not a completely new thing for me.
Denny your definitely right about the side scan not really showing fish though we never saw catfish on it just found structures and fished the structure. They were there though we just couldn’t see the catfish

What lowrance unit did you have?

 

What about a fish that makes it different from everything else in the water that the sonar picks up?

 

Body density?

 

Having spent a day in the boat with Denny him gifting it doesn't surprise me. Contrary to what the 24/7 "news" networks would have us believe there are some super great folks around.

 

Dennys the best.

 

A hook reveal 5 SS US inland

 

That's what i currently use as well. It is definitely, or was i guess, adjustable. Sounds like that rep didn't know what he was talking about. Either way, you have a better unit now. Good luck out there

 

I had always heard the air bladder too but that wide heavy bone in a cats head has to help. The small scales and bladder on gizzard shad won’t provide as good of a return as the heavy scales an Asian carp has. You can tell the difference between a hard rock bottom BRIGHT signal compared to the dim signal return a soft bottom provides.

 

I have both a Garmin and HB in my boat, I can kind of tell the bottom hardness, big trees are obvious, and I think I can tell when I am marking a catfish most times. Having said that I would really like to spend a day in the boat with someone who was really good at deciphering what the screen is showing to give me some lessons.

 

Having said that I would really like to spend a day in the boat with someone who was really good at deciphering what the screen is showing to give me some lessons.

Agreed. Me and my Garmin Striker 4 Vivid aren't quite the best of friends yet.

 

Had an older hds 10 with down and side image. Even a 10 has so much detail vs a 5 or 7. Would be trolling cranks and tell dad and uncle to get ready , sure enough the hybrid whites would be on.

 

I went from the 5 to a 9 difference was amazing now have a 10 and there's a noticeable difference

 

Aaron got it! Air bladders...sonar doesn't pass through nor reflects off air.

So you are sidescaning a place and you see black blobs laying around those are very likely catfish that have buried in the mud and empty their bladders.
We have all caught them dirty things.

 

New power plug showed up in the mail today. Houston we have power!

 

And the GPS coordinates go on sale at midnight🤣🤣🤣

 

I will advertise them as your pins but sell pins anywhere from .5 to 1.25 miles of where the pin actually is. I narrow the zone based on pay $200 buys you 100 yards! What can I say these are high dollar pins!

 

Or dynamite….

 

Anyone want to confirm my suspicions that this is a submerged bridge column that I have circled? I really think that’s what it is

 

Can't tell definitely something drop the range to 80 foot get little more detail

 

Tons more details when you drop the range… wow it’ll take me some time to learn what settings are best but I already can tell a night and day difference with this unit

 

That's a first generation unit when they bring out the new ones you can snag a closeout for good price

 

D is spot on with his suggestion. I never set my side image to more than 80 feet and prefer 60 feet for the better resolution.

That is a better unit. Glad it is working out for you.

 

Dannie, you also should be able to move the curser over to that structure and mark a waypoint. Then when you want you can go directly to it and down imaging may give you a better look at it. Then delete the waypoint marker if you don't want it.