Side imaging works great for finding blue gills, in there beds.they show up best when there out to the sides of your scans, we're there's a shadow cast over there beds.If you go strait over the beds, the beds under the boat won't cast that shadow . doesn't matter tho, after you run over them there going to scatter(if you get a 360, after you find some beds with si , stop your boat and scan with the 360 and you will start finding more isolated, smaller beds close to those big beds