360 help in heavy vegetation?

I finally finished installing the 1199 and the 360 yesterday morning and tested it out at the closest water hole which is loaded with cypress trees, Lilly pads and some kind of under water grass ive always heard called duck weed.
after 7 hours and a lot of button pushing I found two bream beds. This lakes' average depth is 4-5 ft and its a mud bottom.
Any tricks for finding bream beds in this kind of water? Or is the SI/360 useless unless your in cleaner water?
i'll try to take a few snapshots once I get an SD card.

Take some shots and post them.the shallow waters not a problem but not sure about all thoughs weeds

I'll try to get a sd card next week and go back out and get some snap shots. I'm heading down to reelfoot Monday, may swing by Wally World and pick up one.

Hello Danny, I am trying to finish up my 360 transom install and need some info. I am going to connect 360 through a 3 post battery switch. The post are labeled, power, acc, ground. Am I right when I connect post labeled acc back to 360 via red wire, then post marked ground back to 360 via black wire, then the post marked power to battery via a wire with a 8 amp fuse.. At the end of this there is the unshielded 30 strand wire in the 360 power cable that I don't know what to do with. Any info you can hit me with is greatly appreciated.....JDL

Mine only had a power cable and Ethernet cable. I'm lost when you say 30 strand wire

Did you actually find an 8 amp fuse? I looked every where with no luck, local marine shop told me they use 5-10 amp when they install. So I went with 7.5

No luck on any snap shots kosmo, the 360 or SI don't work very well in heavy vegetation. It was awesome on reel foot though!! I could see all twelve baits hanging out the front of the boat. I was even able to steer baits straight into a school of crappie. They were impossible to keep up with though, only found the one school. Found plenty of gar too

Danny, I have a TM 360 and been playing with it a lot. Not having as much luck as I would like. What color, speed 360, gps speed did you have the best luck with? I am having problems seeing laydowns, trees, I can see shadow but it's not really showing me the wood. rdjj

I don't have a 360....yet...but I would think it is better used to position on structure rather than be used as a search tool. I would think that standard SI would be better as a search tool.

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Originally Posted by rdjj71m

Danny, I have a TM 360 and been playing with it a lot. Not having as much luck as I would like. What color, speed 360, gps speed did you have the best luck with? I am having problems seeing laydowns, trees, I can see shadow but it's not really showing me the wood. rdjj

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I don't remember the name of speed setting for your unit, my onix are 1 2 3 4 5. I run my 360 on 3 almost all the time

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Originally Posted by rdjj71m

Danny, I have a TM 360 and been playing with it a lot. Not having as much luck as I would like. What color, speed 360, gps speed did you have the best luck with? I am having problems seeing laydowns, trees, I can see shadow but it's not really showing me the wood. rdjj

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I don't remember the name of speed setting for your unit, my onix are 1 2 3 4 5. I run my 360 on 3 almost all the time

When I'm trolling at .7-.9 mph I set mine on standard witch is 3. The higher speeds were useless to me. If I want a faster refresh rate i would just hit the check mark button. As far as settings go, 12 sensitivity and 5-6 contrast with Amber color seems to be a good place to start for where I fish. I noticed that you have to adjust if you travel very far.

And if your stopped sitting on bream beds and want the best quality shot, slow is by far the best setting.

Kosmo, that makes it to simple (1,2,3,4,5).
My 998 360TM:
Slow
Fine/Fast
Standard
Coarse/Fast
Fastest

Kosmo do you have many laydowns,brush piles, stumps, where you fish? It would help me if you could post a few, then the next time I'm on the water I will take a few snaps of what I am getting on my 998c SI.

Danny, I have notice about the same on higher speed. Except when I am looking for a brush pile I have marked with a waypoint it does help me find it faster (I can see the bright sonar signal from it) and as you know the waypoint is not usually dead-on the object. Thanks for reply.

I think any unit would be pretty much useless in a 5' weedy lake.

Brush pilehttp://i826.photobucket.com/albums/z...psm5xvlu25.jpg stumphttp://i826.photobucket.com/albums/z...psshnifyta.jpgman made wooden structurehttp://i826.photobucket.com/albums/z...psifkz9fbo.jpg

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Danny, I have notice about the same on higher speed. Except when I am looking for a brush pile I have marked with a waypoint it does help me find it faster (I can see the bright sonar signal from it) and as you know the waypoint is not usually dead-on the object. Thanks for reply.

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Yea, I do the same thing.while returning to a waypiont, sometimes I'll turn the 360 speed up to 4 and I'll scan out to around 100ft +., Once I see the bright return of the structure, ill stop using the gps and ill use the 360 to postion my boat (360 works really well for this)