Thread: Discussion on Lowrance Elite 5 DSI/Chartplotter ....

Been doing a bit of fishing lately, I have seen some schools of white bass on my DSI. Look like a group of arches slanted up or down at an angle. Have to be moving to see them.

I also noticed that the depth on my digital readout can be quite a bit different from where the bottom is showing on the display. The digital readout may say 35 feet and the display shows the bottom at 25 feet. I think that means you are near a sharp drop off. It makes it difficult to know how deep you are fishing unless you get your jig directly in the beam where you can see it.

I tried to mark some brush piles with a waypoint and discovered that if you are not moving fast enough to keep the GPS updated, the waypoint will appear at the last point which your GPS updated. Now, if I pass over a brush pile, I drop a marker, swing around and move fast enough for the GPS to update and set the waypoint when I pass the marker.