What is the best fish finder for finding bluegills and crappie in shallow water. Could the transponder be turned sideways or do they make a very wide beam transponder for shallow water
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What is the best fish finder for finding bluegills and crappie in shallow water. Could the transponder be turned sideways or do they make a very wide beam transponder for shallow water
Best to go with a SI unit. Humminbird units have very good range in shallow water.
What's your budget?
As BobB said. It is a fact that an HB si unit...set on 455 kHz.....can find beds out about 50 feet in water as shallow as 2.5 feet. I have done it quite a bit.
Regards
Im curious to know what all is said on here.
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If you only want down image then I recommend Raymarine Dragonfly series.. Best downview on the market.. If you want sideview then lookaround.. Garmin makes the striker or echomap series that's cheaper then the humminbird.. If you go Garmin make sure you get the gt52 transducer.. Shop around on internet and you can save a few hundred bucks... I got mine for 1/3 cheaper then in stores..
Oh.. And on side image don't go less then a 7" screen.. Even if you have to give up other cells and whistles.. 5" screen is fine on down image and sonar...
Like others here said you can't beat side imaging for shallow water. Here is where I posted a shallow water picture of my Humminbird 899 SI sonar unit. The new Helix models are said to have even clear and better looking screens. Like msn said bigger screens are always better when choosing side imaging.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/side-...cture-morning/
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/attac...g-imag0762-jpg
Two questions for scrats image.
1. A little to the right and left of the center line, is that the water column?
2. Immediately left of the Center line, what is that?
Thank you for posting that image!
The dark sections are representing the water column ...Quote:
Originally Posted by skunked again
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k3...6Zkw5nL8Qbgh1g
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The echo just to the left of the center line (in scrat's image) is an echo reflection caused by an obstruction on the boat on the left side of the xducer (lower unit, another xducer, live well screen, etc) ...
Rickie
WOW! Thank you so much for that!
Rickie is 100% correct. Echo it is from a 2D transducer that I have on the left side of boat. At some boat speeds it just shows up on my sonar screen.
Scrat, I have an 899 HD DI SI Humminbird and I have never been able to get my digital readouts anywhere but in a box on the upper left part of the screen. How did you get those readouts to go across the top on the screen shot? Also, how come the depth reading on the digital is 5.9 feet and on the screen it says 1.8??
When I seen the fish beds I touched the up down and sideways bar on my sonar to stop the screen so I could take the picture. This brought up the GPS bar at the top waiting for the curser to be moved to mark a certain waypoint. Maybe others can explain it better than me as I am still learning more and more every time I go out fishing. I also had the SI read out tab turned off.
SI Readouts (Advanced, Side ImagingŪ View only [899ci HD SI and 999ci HD SI]) Settings: On, Off; Default = On SI Readouts allows you to display or hide the digital readout boxes in the Side ImagingŪ View.
When SI Readouts is set to Off, Temperature and Depth will continue to be displayed on the screen.
NOTE: See SetupMenuTab:SelectReadoutsfor more information
The digital readouts at the top of scrat's image is the cursor data bar when the cursor is active (as scrat mentioned he activated the cursor to stop the screen scroll) ...Quote:
Originally Posted by goblerblaster
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QV...7yLwE4JGrBJ9iw
*Box 1 Cursor 0.0 = cursor distance from center line at cursor position ...
*Box 2 Depth 5.9 = water depth at cursor position ...
*Box 3 Distance 95.0ft = straight line distance from cursor position to current boat position ...
*Box 4 Bearing 165° = boat's current bearing to cursor position - 165° = ~SSE
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scrat explained the "SI Readouts Off" to get the depth and temp overlay data at the bottom left of the SI image (except that "SI Readouts On/Off" is under the Sonar tab) ...
Rickie
How does Lowrances Total scan transducer compare?