Thread: hb 565 learning - any help would be appreciated

I'm going to have a lot of these questions, as I've just started using my first real depthfinder, and wanting to master it to the best of my ability....so I figured I'd make one thread and just add questions as I had them and maaaaaaaybe some of the fine people here would pop in on occasion and check 'em out.
I got to play with it for a couple hours on the water and I thought I had my settings just about right but kept getting alot of fuzziness in the water column in deeper depths. Think my surface clutter setting would have anything to do with it, when the cloudy areas are only showing up in the lower ranges of 30+ feet? Or is it prob just a sensitivity issue?
Structure identification is killing me. I drove some cane a while back and marked it on my iFinder H2o gps, so I was excited to try to take a look at it w/ my unit. I KNOW i was over it, and there was fish on it bc I caught them, BUT my unit was showing the bed as horizontal lines rather than vertical. I don't get that.

Umm, gotta go to my sons ball game.
More questions to come later.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read or that has any helpful suggestions.

Adam

Oh, here's a pic of the eve's fish:

Adam, those horizontal lines might have been suspended fish that were not moving. You'll only get an arc if the fish goes clean thru the sonar cone. Just my guess.

"gene"


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I know you just got the HB565. But how do you like the unit. As far the picture that it sends. And were is your transducer mounted? I am thinking about getting one of these. Looks like a nice unit. Thanks for any info.

Thanks for the reply Mr Gene, but it wasn't fish...I had fish ID on and they were scattered above those horizontal lines.
Hope all is well there!


purp,
so far I like it........just not used to it yet and I don't really have anything to compare it to since my last unit was a portable fishin' buddy that was pixelated like an atari
I have my transducer trolling motor mounted with the 'ducer that came with it.... a lot of people suggested the puck, which i may get later....if someone can convince me as to why


thanks 4 the looks,
Adam

the cloudy stuff you are seeing may be the thermocline.

slow the troll motor and see other brush and stumps.

i have the cheaper 525 and it draws a great picture of the stumps and brush
i am using the reg transducer that came with it. Mine is a single beam transducer .

the dual beam transducer are harder to read to find things because you have twice the area in the circle to search,

also may have to set it up in the structure mode.

I have the same unit and have never got it to show any archs. Not trying to bash the unit because it is well worth the money for a starter unit. I have used the unit for over a year and it is great to find channels, flats, surface temp. and water depths. The best setting that I have found is the default setting. You will get a lot of replys that suggest turning off the fish i.d. and look for arches, slanted lines, vertical lines and horizontal lines. I use the round orange marker bouyies and noticed the angled line coming up from the bottom of the lake was showing fish on the line. The fish that the finder was showing was the large lead weight coming to the boat as I was winding it up. After that happened, I noticed that every time I trolled over a log. stump or limb under the water, the locator always showed it as fish on the screen. I have not read anywhere in the instructions that the fish will show up as arches. I have received several replies on another site that recommend all types of settings and determined that for this particular unit for my use is just use default and forget all the other settings. Just my opinion and I will but a nicer hb color unit in the future.