03-03-2010, 03:05 PM
"A sonar question. What settings are you using on yours. I havve the same model and am wondering what you are finding works for you."
[cool][#0000ff]Yesterday I was fishing shallow water...7 feet at the deepest. Even the 565 does not do a really good job of finding fish in shallow water. The "footprint" of the sonar cone on the bottom is only about 2 feet so you can go by a lot of fish without knowing they are there...even with the wider beam secondary. I get much better fish readings at depths over 10-12 feet. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I use the sonar mainly to know the depth and the bottom structure when fishing shallow water. If I see a few fishies go through, so much the better.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I leave the Fish ID function on and drop the sensitivity down below 50%. That helps reduce surface clutter and false signals from algae or other non-fish items in the water column in shallow water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have continued to fiddle with the different settings on different trips. My conclusion is that there is a lot of potential fine tuning options that are really not necessary for "average" float tube fishing. As long as I get a good read on the bottom, the structure and enough fishy pics to keep me interested I am good to go. Foo foo is wasted on me.[/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]Yesterday I was fishing shallow water...7 feet at the deepest. Even the 565 does not do a really good job of finding fish in shallow water. The "footprint" of the sonar cone on the bottom is only about 2 feet so you can go by a lot of fish without knowing they are there...even with the wider beam secondary. I get much better fish readings at depths over 10-12 feet. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I use the sonar mainly to know the depth and the bottom structure when fishing shallow water. If I see a few fishies go through, so much the better.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I leave the Fish ID function on and drop the sensitivity down below 50%. That helps reduce surface clutter and false signals from algae or other non-fish items in the water column in shallow water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have continued to fiddle with the different settings on different trips. My conclusion is that there is a lot of potential fine tuning options that are really not necessary for "average" float tube fishing. As long as I get a good read on the bottom, the structure and enough fishy pics to keep me interested I am good to go. Foo foo is wasted on me.[/#0000ff]
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