Helix First Use Report

[SkunkedAgain]

Glad the ff test well, sorry the fish didn’t cooperate. I noticed in the pic you sent that you had the protective film on the screen still, that will add to the glare. Do a search for anti glare protectors for your ff, I found mine on Amazon and I think it was less then 10 bucks. Other thing that I’ve done on my old center console was to make a hood and use the 2 knobs on the Ff to hold it on. (2 gallon milk jug cut and spray painted black, bent to provide top and side coverage)

Thanks Alan, You have good eyes to pick up on the screen protective film, but you are correct it is still there, only reason I dared wipe the rain off the screen last night...  I'll have to check Amazon for the protective screens, I know they are really needed in a fishing type setting... I'll have to try the hood idea too... however, changing the angle made a huge difference...  I learned a lot about the area I was in last night that I never knew, there's a lot of rock down there, where I assumed it was just a mud bottom... Not a lot of fish, but where they were, they were all congregated together.. and a lot of the areas I used to fish didn't have any fish around them, so wouldn't have done me much good to fish there at least last night...  Hopefully this new finder will help me fish in the more productive areas... Anyway looking forward to getting you out on the boat to give the cats a try... Let's hope for better weather so the fish get more active and it should make for a good trip.. Later Jeff

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Wow, I had no idea that side scan would work in that shallow of water. I need to upgrade from my helex 5 without side scan. Thanks for the report Jeff.

Randy, I watched a lot of In Depth Outdoors last season on the ice (check out youtube) anyway, they were using the Mega 360 on the ice in shallow 4' deep areas and seeing out to 90' around them... This let them find a lot of fish in shallow water without having to punch a million holes and wait for them to settle down after the noise of hole punching... anyway it kind of sold me on the tech because I fish so much shallow water and it's the only way to use a fish finder in shallow water and have it show you something... So if you are thinking about he 360 I think you have to have a Helix 8 or bigger for it to work if I did my research correctly... So far I'm loving it, no buyers remorse so far...  You're welcome for the report, probably more to follow... Later Jeff
PS... I did notice the regular 2D fish finder is a lot better than the 788 model that I upgraded from as well... it really shows bottom features better and picks up fish right on the bottom...