06-08-2009, 07:37 PM
Im running a 997c hummingbird. I looked at the 3d model and thought it was pretty cool but i cant afford two. even though I have 3 units on the boat. I have a lowrance X51 on the minkota on the front and a fish eagle on the back. When we bass fish being aware of the depth is important. Lowrance has an excellent tutorial on sonar that I would recommend for any one that uses sonar. I turned off the fish symbols long ago and started reading arches and adjusting gray scale and sensitivity for the conditions long ago. Different fish arch differently. Crappies and kokanee look very similar on sonar. Wipers, walleye and carp look alike. The side imaging gives us a read on structure as in seeing that a hump on the sonar is actually a road on side imaging. The side imaging will also show fish in the water column between the center and the bottom and fish will also cast shadows depending on how far they are off the bottom. Willard bay for example has big areas with almost no features on the bottom. But along the dike and around the island it has drop offs that drop as much as 4 feet or more. Plus it has a big weed bed down in the south dog leg. We can tell when we are in fish by what we see on both views. Willard definitely has very fishy areas and some that are not. But most of all just because you can see them doesn't mean they will bite. The fish move around alot also so good sonar will help you find them. then there is that gps thing that i wont get into here but that is just as important.
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