Side Scan Mosaics with HB

Work has really played havoc on the water time over the past several months but thought some would be interested in other ways to use the SI in both HB and the LOW units. Here are the projects I've been working on for my home lakes after making several recordings to cover the areas I fish.

By taking the SI recordings and linking them you get a bottom map of everything on the bottom. You also use the 2D information for making a detailed map of your lake.

Here is one of the areas I started on.

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I then took the SI and made a map of the bottom for this mud flat. The two sunken boats really hold the crappie for this area and from looking at the bottom you can see why.

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This is a long cove, from the banks you can see how fast it drops and the dark center shows the channel of the old creek. It also shows the out crop of rock / stumps and a fall down up in the head of the cove. As time goes by and with the addition of other recordings a full map of the areas I fish can be obtained for future reference. Knowing the time of year and where the fish like to be during those times...with the aid of these maps at the house I can pick locations I fell will hold fish.

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Many may not be interested in doing this but for me it's fun time on the water and will help in the long run. Hope it sparks interest and shows that your unit can do a lot more than just find you a fishing hole. Good luck on the water :fish this winter.

Pretty cool, what software are you using ?

That's neat what software?

ReefMasters, Matt has really done some great things on this and has worked with customers to add things that are needed for what we want to do as fisherman.

Others are out there but this is what I use.

So you can make your own maps with reefmaster? Can it be placed on an sd card and into my graph? How long did it take to make a lake? Or can I be mapping as im triolling? And do you have the lite or pro software?

I have a humminbird 859 and 899, will it do this?

Very cool!

Lowpro, go to reefmastersoftware dot com. You can find out more about the units used there. I use a 898 and a 859. You can record data while you are fish or you can run a charted path to collect data. I have the Pro.

Bottom composition can also be collected to get maps of hardness or makeup of the bottom, this is a module you add to your system like the side scan mosaic. In px one of the lake map you can see on the bottom right side of the shot that the software shows the bottom coming back up as if this is one small lake. However I never made recordings over there so the software auto adjusted the lines. This data can be collected later and added to the map to inlarge the area for true depth over there.

Guys running the Low units I know area adding maps to their units but not sure on the HB. I think this was something he was working on and I have not got into it it so have not read up on it for my unit yet. I'll see if he can come over and help with some of your Q.

very cool

Nice, using reefmaster pro or lite?

pro with a few modules.

Waaaay too much time on your hands Tom. They look great. I need lessons for mine.

Mind elaborating on the modules.
Thanks, I'm interested for sure

brettw, you can get reefmasters to make the maps of your lake but you can also get the mosaic and bottom composition module. The first is shown above and the other will take the reading to make a map of bottom hardness / composition on your lake. Not using it due to the feature of red / green on the HB. By using it I was able to find points this summer that held some big gills. Several point were checked but only the ones that had the hard bottom returns / pea gravel were holding the big gill.

Some of the guys on their site are doing way more and better jobs than what I could hope to do....but fun trying :biggrin

You can get reefmasters as a free trial and see if it is something you would like. Hit Matt up, he is more than willing to help in any way I've found...great guy.

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Originally Posted by skeetbum

Waaaay too much time on your hands Tom. They look great. I need lessons for mine.

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skeet if we can get some time off together we need to go over to Woods....I trade some bird time for some fishing lessons....