07-18-2004, 10:24 PM
[url "javascript: addTag('cool')"][cool][/url][blue]Hey JR, that is a great site for comparisons. I am setting up a shortcut for reference when future new recruits have need of similar info. Thanks.[/blue]
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[#0000ff]It is interesting to try to extrapolate what you are really seeing on the display screens. With me, it is mostly a matter of having become familiar with the unit I am using and knowing what is in the water beneath me. Then, when I see a middle sized blip and hook and land a middle sized fishy, I correlate the connection. The teeny weeny ones and bigger ones are subject to conjecture...and can be anything.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Probably the worst "fakeout" with new sonar users is to see a "school of fish" and drop a lure straight down, only to snag a branch of the tree that appeared on the display as a school of fish. Of course, the more powerful and more sensitive units can help in distinguishing "friend from foe", especially if you don't use the fishy icons.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That was one of the major complaints I had when using my first Humminbird flasher unit. It showed lots of lines on the screen, but there was no way to separate fish from snags. Again, it took a while to get used to it and to be able to guess right more often than wrong.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It is interesting to try to extrapolate what you are really seeing on the display screens. With me, it is mostly a matter of having become familiar with the unit I am using and knowing what is in the water beneath me. Then, when I see a middle sized blip and hook and land a middle sized fishy, I correlate the connection. The teeny weeny ones and bigger ones are subject to conjecture...and can be anything.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Probably the worst "fakeout" with new sonar users is to see a "school of fish" and drop a lure straight down, only to snag a branch of the tree that appeared on the display as a school of fish. Of course, the more powerful and more sensitive units can help in distinguishing "friend from foe", especially if you don't use the fishy icons.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That was one of the major complaints I had when using my first Humminbird flasher unit. It showed lots of lines on the screen, but there was no way to separate fish from snags. Again, it took a while to get used to it and to be able to guess right more often than wrong.[/#0000ff]
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