Pics of crappie on Lowrance Downscan...

[bassfishrman]

I put out some bamboo tops a couple weeks ago. They are 8 sticks of freshly cut bamboo stuck in cylinder blocks with quickcrete used to hold them in vertical position. Went back yesterday to find the spot lit up like a christmas tree with crappie. We caught 25 and left. Notice how you can see the cylinder block at the bottom. The bright spots above the bamboo and the numerous bright spots to the right are all crappie. Downscan is simply amazing. I have also included the same structure on sonar to show the difference. Good luck fishing!

[elkhunter]

Wow, that's really neat

[CrappiePappy]

Have you tried using 800kHz on your DI screen ?? Or using the "blue" color palette ??

I have a Elite 5DSI (DI only) unit, and found the blue palette to show more defined images than the multi-colored palettes ... and the 800kHz makes the images a little more crisp.

Examples :





which are a far cry from the images where I used the multi-color palette, like this one :



... cp

[bassfishrman]

Crappie Pappy,
The downscan image above in my post is 800khz. It is on a 4HDI. I have used blue and really like it. I recently switched to Gold (above) to see the quality differences. I believe Blue offers more clarity. Yesterday when I was on the water and took the pics the water was rough. Winds were out of the SW at 15mph. When it's calm I get much better quality. Not much of a fan of the multi color palette either.

[CrappiePappy]

Thanks for the explanation !! Just threw that out there "in case" you hadn't tried those settings, plus informing others that have similar units on how to get the best images.

Congrats on the catching !!

... cp

[rnvinc]

Fantastic ...



Rickie