Hello All , Fishfinder question for you guys

[Drawout]

Hello all im new here but ive been lurking for a while and i noticed that their is a lot of semi expert fisherman here i just got a new depthfinder Eagle 480 ,need help with it what is this ?

http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w...icture1050.jpg


http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w...icture1056.jpg


http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w...icture1059.jpg

[Drawout]

I also have not seen fish arches yet and i do have fish id off but still no arches any help is appreciated.

[TapOut64]

Those pic's are pretty small to say what I'm looking at but this is a good link:

http://www.bystore.org/how-fish-finders-work.html

Scroll down, they talk about fish arches.

This link has a ton of info:

http://www.fishfindercity.com/fitiandin.html

[gabowman]

Any way to get those pics back up a little larger? Hard to tell what we're looking at there.

[Drawout]

Sorry the pics are small guys the attachments feature wouldnt let me upload them originally so i dont really know how to get them bigger.

[Drawout]

Lets try this.

[Drawout]

[Drawout]

[Drawout]

[CrappiePappy]

I took the liberty of expanding Drawout's pictures .... now maybe we can get some answers :D

Here's my take -

15.3ft pic ....... 5ft tall weeds (no surface clutter reading could indicate low sensitivity setting ??)

12.5ft (blurry) pic ...... brush on a drop (still no surface clutter reading, but darker pixelation could represent denser material than weeds ... hence my guess that it's brush)

13.5ft pic ..... brush, ditch (left), and a cloud of baitfish or heavy vegetation (right) ?? (surface clutter & interference blotches may indicate higher sensitivity setting ???) A few scattered straight line marks could be fish ... Fish ID setting turned off ??


Now ... I could be way off, in my interpretations ... not knowing anything about the lake, boat speed, or the unit. It's just guesses, based on what I would think I was seeing, if I were using the unit on my own waters.

What do you, more experienced depth finder users, see ??

....... cp