Quote Originally Posted by Nova View Post
You will need to lower it in my opinion. The bottom of the ducer should be flat or parallel to the lake bottom bottom. You’ll need to find a happy medium as I assume your boat will rock and roll depending your movement in the boat. This will get you the most accurate and clear picture. Your well on your way to ripping some more lips
I heard that. You think it would be safe to lower it down even farther? The transducer mount won’t have a lot of its back against the plate and I’m worried about it snapping under the pressure from the water while on plane. I may be overthinking it. I could also make an aluminum plate to extend it down even farther if it comes down to that. The way I had it was working well. I wasn’t getting much discrepancy from what I usually get out of my other FF.

Yes it rocks and rolls a lot as I move around. It’s almost like fishing in a pirouge. The boat sits very shallow in the water and when I’m up front, it picks the back up even more. I may have to reorganize and put more weight in the back to counter all this. It would be perfect if I had another person in the boat with me to keep the back weighed down while I’m up front.

I’m also considering maybe making a hinged door for the center seat and putting the battery in there to lighten up the front and move the weight farther back. I think keeping the battery all the way in the back will be too much.

I’ve got to get someone out here with me to operate the boat and I can stand by and look to get a better idea of where it needs to go.


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