Thread: Someone wants to experiment....

Originally Posted by brettw

Ok,
What would happen if I take me huge lowrance transducer for the HDS touch, mount it to a pole vertically, put the HDS in downscan mode and slowly rotate the pole left and right?
I know someone has tried it.

I used several kinds of transducer mounting and moving, and one of them was what you offer: I attached the transducer vertically to short vertical pole and pointed it to each side just rotating it around vertical axis – it worked pretty good and showed the fish up to 100 feet.
The thickness of the beam is about 1-3 degree, and there is no much help rotating it right under the boat close to the water surface. I used all length of the cable and lowered the transducer till the bottom just 1 foot above it, and could see all fish 1-2ft off the bottom around using just one beam of DI unit. That huge lowrance transducer for the HDS touch will give more opportunity to see and locate the fish using three windows on the screen even without rotating a transducer:




Each of those 6 fishes can be seen in certain window on the sonar split screen:





Two years ago I lowered my DI transducer till the bottom and pointed it towards the fishermen, and this is what I saw 30ft away:












Later I caught some of those fish that is on the screens above: