Originally Posted by
Gunslinger
I bought this video on eBay. Don't waste your money -- it's no better than the instructions from Lowrance except for a small bit on sonar theory.
I did FINALLY get a chance to get out and spend the day on the water playing with this unit today. I am absolutely impressed with it! This unit blows away ANY standard sonar FF out there. It was amazingly easy, after only making a couple of very minor tweaks to the factory settings, to identify fish, baitballs, various structure. I LOVE the fact that a stump looks like a stump, a tree looks like a tree, etc. This is a VERY user-friendly unit. I didn't get into the GPS part too much, but as a fishfinder this is an awesome tool. Several times I just cruised around a bit until I'd see a stump in 20-25 feet of water with fish suspended around it (and it actually looks like it should). I'd then circle back around and ease up to that spot and once I got on it, drop a black and blue 1/8 oz jig down. Let it get to the bottom, crank it up a turn or two of the reel, twitch it a bit, and voila! Dinner was in the livewell!!!! The only tweaks I made to the factory settings were to choose the "purple" color/pallette, turn the noise filter to "off" and set the contrast to about 64 (and tweak the surface clarity a tad). It was overcast today, so the purple/orange pallete worked best, but in sunlight the Sepia pallete would probably be preferable. With different pallete selections you'll want to mess with the contrast a bit, but with the 64/purple pallete combo my screen images were crystal clear and even better than the images on the Lowrance site. It was particularly amazing to see the extreme detail when going over a particular section of the lake that has a lot of logs on the bottom. it was quite literally almost like looking at a real time underwater snapshot, in that you could see each individual log/tree in detail AND the fish around them (although fish generally showed as light spots of varying size). I would HIGHLY recommend this unit to any of my friends!!! There really isn't that much to learn with one of these, everything is pretty much automatic and instinctual.