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    What would you see, if anything, if you mounted a regular transducer on the side of your trolling motor? I'm guessing it would show a false depth reading which I would expect. Im just curious if you would see anything.
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    Supposingly that is how Bottom Line's Side Finder came into being. I guess someone tilted one up and was able to see fish under a pier. I use to have one but got tired of having to have it fixed all the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by boat49
    What would you see, if anything, if you mounted a regular transducer on the side of your trolling motor? I'm guessing it would show a false depth reading which I would expect. Im just curious if you would see anything.
    Ok.

    I got a 45 degree transducer that is mounted at 22.5 degrees (physical) on the right side of my boat via pole and handle. I can see down and out. Yep. The mounting angles are simple math.

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    I see some experimenting coming on! Thanks for the info.....I love this site! I'm getting just smart enough to be dangerous from all the ideas and info I get on here.
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    I've thought about that but never got around to trying it - I'm thinking
    you'd want to set the depth range to manual, instead of
    auto? How do you do it Canepole?
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    I heard about guys mounting the transducers for flasher units on broom handles and the sides of their trolling motors to look for schooling fish. This was way back in 1982! If you do this with one of the LCD units you will need to manually set the depth range and either hide or ignore any depth readings.

    Basically this is what our WideSide transducer is except that it also has the downwards pointing sonar beam and another side pointing beam in the opposite direction.

    If you do this you may have to experiment with the actual angle of the transducer as all stated transducer angles were taken from laboratory conditions which may not reflect what you have on the water [you have to angle it far enough downwards to not get sonar returns from the surface of the water].
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