Thread: First night out with the 898

Larger photo's on down the post...sorry about that.


Had to wait for the RAM mount to arrive to get it installed and was not able to get on the water tonight till 8PM.

Based off the photo's do see anything that needed to be changed with the tx? Done a ton of reading from the post here and I think it save me a bunch of problems from the get go.

Took a bunch of snapshots, each time changing the contrast / sen. / and destance out. This really helped to learn how they effect what I'm seeing.

This was a shot of my house boat. Tell me if I'm reading this right...I see fish and brush, as well as the right pontoon and some of the left.


I think these are three of the concrete blocks used to hold the slips in place.


This is a point in the cove. I can see what you all were talking about when the waves came in from another boat. After they past me the lines on the right side went away.


And this I believe is my first big fish.


Cant thank you all enough for getting me started. Now to really learn the unit and try and get the shots you all putting up

thx again

guess the first thing I need to do is learn how to make these photo's larger

Looks pretty good slabbacks..(that's a pretty good sized fish in the 4th shot to make a return that big)...

I would turn "Sharpness" Off ..unless you are specifically looking for fish...(higher sharpness just makes the image grainy looking...but it does make the "white fish echo" stand out against the bottom better)...

I notice a faint white trail just to the left of the center line boat path..

This is usually caused by something blocking part of the left SI beam...motor, drain screen, another xducer, etc...

Keep the pix coming...you're doing a great job...



Rickie

Originally Posted by rnvinc

Looks pretty good slabbacks..(that's a pretty good sized fish in the 4th shot to make a return that big)...

I would turn "Sharpness" Off ..unless you are specifically looking for fish...(higher sharpness just makes the image grainy looking...but it does make the "white fish echo" stand out against the bottom better)...

I notice a faint white trail just to the left of the center line boat path..

This is usually caused by something blocking part of the left SI beam...motor, drain screen, another xducer, etc...

Keep the pix coming...you're doing a great job...



Rickie

Drain screen. Have to cut it back due to sticking out to far but was running out of light. Thx for the info, will work on it this coming week and get back out.

looks good, I'd limit the range to 75 ft for a few trips