Thread: has anyone tried this?

Interesting...

Rickie

Pretty cool idea.

I have an old eagle fish-easy, or something like that still connected to my tm waiting to get the di installed. Wouldn't be too hard to mount on shaft instead of motor. I bet the groove on the terrova will handle both cables, too.

That is how the side finder was "discovered". Bottom Line use to sell them and they worked pretty good when they worked. The problem was they wouldn't keep working. They were great for looking under piers.

I'm curious--what would you see on the display? Wish I could see a pic

Fishermen have been doing this since the mechanical flasher and paper chart days. I remember going crappie fishing with someone not long after I started work here (1982) and he was doing the same thing to spot schools of crappie away from the boat, except that he used a broom handle to mount the transducer on and had an ole’ Humminbird Super Sixty flasher unit. You would have to watch the angle and height that you mount the transducer on but I don’t see why it would not work. An Si or DI unit would work as well, just remember the direction that the transducer beams are pointing when you look at the screen.

Originally Posted by joey

I'm curious--what would you see on the display? Wish I could see a pic

I would assume you would see the same thing you'd normally see (looking down) but without any bottom contours showing. It would likely look like it normally would look, if you had your depth set to read down to 20ft ... and you were sitting in 40ft of water (& your unit wasn't on auto) ... in other words, you'd see a blank screen unless there was something to return a signal, like a fish, baitball, tree, etc. Now, how that would translate to an image on the screen ... but a tree or stump probably would show up as "bottom", since its function is primarily to read "depth". I guess the closer you got to the stump, the shallower it would read (since it actually thinks it's reading depth below, and not distance forward).

Would be interesting to see a screenshot, though


...cp

Okay...I think so also...very interesting.

Now...who is going to go get some screen shots for all of us to see??