Thread: Trolling with the 360...

It’s a great tool for long lining

I used the Gen 1 360 as my primary electronic for trolling jigs as well as crankbaits with Side Imaging as a backup. With the new Mega 360 and clarity of the views, it will rock the trolling world. Check the Mega pics out and speeds they were taken. As your views refresh with 360, you can stay on the schools and follow them by either circling back and forth or figure 8 movement. Here is a pic of the Mega 360 at 2.4 mph of just structure and submerged trees. Way clearer and crisp in detail as I was just testing at different speeds on my first outing with Mega 360 to see how it would look at that speed when long lining cranbaits.



Granted it’s not the best pic as it can be lightened up by changing your sensitivity settings and contrast and maybe even by changing your refresh rate of the sweep as it was set at a speed of 3, but it gives me a view of of the defined clarity I was searching for at a speed of 2.4 mph for first time in playing with the mega 360. I very seldom troll crankbaits any faster than 2.0 or 2.2. Jigs way way slower at speeds of 0.5 to say 1.1 mph. Can’t wait for spring to use the Mega 360. My trolling motor was maxed out on speed at the time that was taken in about 14 mph wind with lake waves all but whitecapping.

How do you have it mounted?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On a Da Ducer of Rickie’s at podunkideas.com

I was wondering about those. I had in my mind the trolling motor shaft would block a slice of the image.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Attached above the trolling motor with a bracket to the motor, I don’t think you have any image interference from other pics I have seen on the forums. Attached to a Da Ducer, showing mega 360 views no picture image interference at all, in SI view of the mega 360, I will have a super small broken line on one side of the water column showing trolling motor but I can get rid of it, buy lowering the Da Ducer or raising the Trolling motor motor and blade up just a dash to where it’s gone. It’s that simple to get rid of the itty bitty line in the water column using the Da Ducer.

Thankd for the input! Sounds like this is the route we need to look at. Obviously this will tell you the direction of fish, but can you figure out their depth without running over them and using some version of traditional (relatively speaking) sonar?

Also, the "Y-Cable" discussions I have seen... I assume this allows your 2D/DI transducer and Mega 360 to hook up to your G3N unit to display everything. The Mega 360 doesn't have either of those transducers built-in from my understanding. Am I correct with that thinking?

Sent from my SM-G955U using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

The Y cable allows you to hook your depth find of which needs to be either a DI+ or SI+ G3N only model that will work with mega 360. By using the Y cable, you get 2d and DI imaging as well as depth and temp readings with Mega 360 plugged into other side of Y cable and the Y cable plugs into you helix or Solix at the transducer plug in. mega 360 will not plug into Ethernet box. You don’t have to use a Y cable but if you won’t have depth, temp, 2d or DI unless everything is networked and then you operate off your network settings of your depth finder. You can also use a trolling motor built in transducer. If you use a SI transducer to plug into the Y cable, the Y cable is not designed and use of the Mega 360 will block the SI images coming from a plugged in SI transducer and only give DI 2d, temp, and depth readings. You do not need to spend the money for say a helix SI plus depth finder as it will be a waist to plug it into a Y cable when all you need is a DI plus model as you will get your SI readings when you want to show SI using the Mega 360 or off your network if you are running a SI unit on your consol with the transducer on the transom. Hope I didn’t make this all too confusing in explaining the Y cable. For a Helix you need the 9 pin and Solix will take the 14 pin model.

9 M360 2DDI Y is the Y cable of helix
14 M360 2DDI Y is the y cable for Solix
and the Mega 350 does not come with a AS GPS HS puck as you will have to buy it separately if you want to use it. It cam with themGen 1 360. If you have for example a Ultrex a Link model trolling motor, your link will give your gps heading and the little boat icon for speeds under 0.6 mph as your donut icon on the Mega 360 at the extreme slow speeds can act up sometimes.