Thread: First time using side scan

To get your transducer level on the water, take a level and a handful of pennies out in the boat with you. With the boat at a slow idle the way you want to scan, put the level on the deck someplace and shim the back by stacking pennies until it reads level. Count the pennies, and when you get home put the level and pennies back in the boat where they were on the water. Crank the tongue jack until you center the bubble and your boat is sitting just like it does when you are idling. Now you can level your transducer and it will be right when you get on the lake.

Great idea. Thanks for that tip.

Make sure the motor is not in the "beam" of the cone. Check with the motor down and using the level mentioned above check to see if anything is in the beam when the boat is sitting in the water. You may need to move the ducer to the most right or left side of boat away from motor so the beam does not hit the motor and blade when scanning. If that old ducer is in the beam then it will show up as well. Use a string and tie it to the sonar and pull it out at an angle from the ducer to see what is "in the beam" from all angles. If the string hits anything then you need to move the obstruction or relocate the ducer.

Can you post pix of your xducer install ...??

Including the areas to the left and right of the xducer ...

Rickie

I will when I get home.

I'm having the same problem with mine, when I first installed mine I had it set about a half inch above the bottom of the boat. Recently I lowered it about a quarter inch below the bottom and I started getting the same images in the water column on the left side.
I'm thinking it's got something to do with the water turbulence from the strake on the bottom of the boat. Planning on raising it back to the original position when I get back home to verify that.
if you figure it out before I do let me know please