Structure or fish....why...??
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Structure or fish....why...??
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I'm going with fish. Streaks behind many indicate movement
Im gonna say structure, because of the long shadows.
Im gonna say structure...maybe lilly pad stems?
I agree with the structure/cover. The shadows should be the round or oblong if it were fish.
Fish! You can see that you just went over a little channel coming from the lower right and moving to the left. I would say that you hit a nice school of fish. I don't read Hum Bird images much but i can see the hardness of the channel or creek you went over. There are shadows but a school packed together will do the same thing.
Looks like poles of some sort,state beds?
It's very possible that some of the brighter "dots" are fish....Quote:
Originally Posted by genec
But the predominate feature in this image is the long skinny shadows that are all parallel with each other ....
This gives clues that this structure is indeed a stakebed...and most likely stakes driven into the lake bottom because there are no visable clues for "horizontal cross-pieces" of the stakes nailed to...(this is one of my favorite crappie beds even tho I didn't put it out)...
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suspended fish hanging around 2 -4 foot of water just off the left side of the boat
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Keep them coming, I am really enjoying these puzzles!
WHERE IS QUESTION NUMBER 3,PLEASE CONTINUE WITH NUMBER 5,IT WILL SHARPEN OUR MINDS,WHAT LITTLE I GOT LEFT:Rofl
Structure. No gaps between the targets and the shadows.
Quiz #2 was what is the bridge piling...Quote:
Originally Posted by genec
Quiz #3 was explaining why the 80' tall bridge piling only showed as 12' above the lake bottom...
Rickie
also rickie,most of the white dots are the post of each state bed and it look like a silt in creek or soft bottom where bed is at?
The stakebed is in the back of a flat cove...so the light and dark changes in the image would almost have to be bottom composition changes...most likely from gravel to mud...(by remembering what the dry bank above this bed looks like)...
Rickie
x2 with BobB, stake bed with fish is what i'm guessing.
:Rofl guess i'll just start skipping to the end. keepum coming
rickie,keep the quizzes coming.im really lnjoying them and learning at the same time.thanks:ThumbsUp:ThumbsUpQuote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
Rickie can I ask what settings do you like on the Humviewer?
*I always record on the HB unit with the 83kHz shut completely off to make less data to record..(I don't really need to see the 83kHz 60° cone data in Humviewer)...Quote:
Originally Posted by ricky
*I always record on the HB unit in 800kHz to get the best detail for the recording and then use the tools in Humviewer to adjust the Contrast and brightness of the recording...
*I use the 4pane view with DI over 2d on the left....and SI over track on the right...(the track pane helps me visualize where my boat was at any point in the recording I'm viewing)..
*Sonar frequency (2d/DI/SI)...is dictated by what frequency the recording was made...
*I adjust the 2d and DI pane "Crop to" setting to the next depth choice deeper than the water the recording was made in...
*I choose the Palette color that shows the best for the particular Enviromental conditions the recording was made in...(hard bottom I will choose Blue or Amber - soft bottom I will choose Green)...
*Playback Speed depends on if I'm looking for 1 specific item (faster)....or if I'm studying and marking waypoints (slower)...
*I always name waypoints in Humviewer with the identifier the HB unit put on the Recording...R000x...(x is the sequential recording ever made on that unit)..then I add an additional "b" for brush .... "sb" for stakebed...."st" for stump...then I also add a sequential number such as 1, 2, 3, ect to indicate the waypoint in that specific recorded track...so the 1st waypoint marked in that Humviewer recording may look like "R0009br1...the 2nd waypoint marked in that Humviewer recording may look like "R0009sb2...etc
(Note: when these waypoints are run thru HBPC and loaded back into my unit...I know those waypoints labeled with the "R0000x" prefix were created in Humviewer)...(so anytime I'm on the water and I'm close to a waypoint named with the "R0000x" prefix, I will go verify that waypoint to see if what I marked in Humviewer is actually something worth keeping in my HB unit waypoint memory...if it turns out to be nothing, I delete it from my HB unit memory)...
Rickie
Wow didn't know about all that ...Thanks..... what about sens and contrast.
I use the sensitivity setting (Humviewer and in the HB unit) as a brightness controll dictated by bottom composition...Quote:
Originally Posted by ricky
A mud bottom will not reflect much sonar so a higher sensitivity setting is needed...
A hard rock or gravel bottom will reflect a lot of sonar so a lower sensitivity setting is needed...
I only change Contrast if I want the fish to stand out more against the bottom detail...because more Contrast makes the image "grainy" looking...
Rickie
Thanks again
Don't know for sure, but I would vote for fish. The shadows to the left are elongated because the bottom is sloping away from the boat.