Quote Originally Posted by rnvinc View Post
I think in a "shallow water" application (of water depth less than the boat length)...the 360 can be used effectively for vertical fishing...

There is an offset setting that allows the bow of the boat to be seen on the display to show exactly where the fisherman would be standing while vertical fishing at the bow ...which (in shallow water)...puts the fisherman's bait over the bottom in the 360 image... and not over the "black hole" in the middle...

This is kosmo's image...the 2d confirms that the "blue dot" in the 360 image (which represents the bow of the boat)... is directly over the brush...

I think this offset setting is even adjustable for the user's specific boat length...



Rickie
rvvinc, i had my 360 out for the first time last saturday and tried it out. We went to brush pile that had fish-it was in 35-37 fow-the fish were stacked up to @20 feet from the surface so i put the 360 scan size to 35 feet and everytime it came around on the screen i could see the stack of fish every time and relate it to my boat position and cast in the direction of the fish. Once the school was located i did not need to see such a big picture of bottom just the fish. it allowed me to stay on the fish better and by doing this method there was not anything on the screen but fish. i did notice that the fish moved throughout the course of the day from the original point aprox. 60 feet and it allowed us to stay on them. Knappy