Reply With QuoteGonna have to watch that a couple more time's. Best one I've seen yet. Thank you!
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Shouldn’t show two depths. Could that possibly be a depth number and a temperature? The main thing I figured about about my basic fish finders is they are really more for finding the right depth, bottom hardness (if it’s a color screen) and temp. For instance the very first one ever owned would show fish symbols. I always said they just had a recording on it until I got my better units. I think the main thing you need to focus on is when you catch a fish look at the finder and see what’s the depth, temp, bottom hardness, and did the finder show something on the screen at the time of the catch. I used to catch fish when mine didn’t show anything and when I’d stop catching them it would show fish. I guess it was because I fish in front of the boat and it only shows what’s directly beneath. Then I would float forward and it would show the fish I was just catching. As far as structure don’t try and guess what it is. Just know there is are variation of something different on the bottom and that attracts fish. The best thing to do is sink a tree somewhere you know and look at it when it is first sank and then check it every time out. You see something different on it and it’s probably fish. Only thing that’s going to make you better with it is to use it regularly
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As hot as it is outside, the big number MUST be the outside temperature. 97 degrees in south Alabama most recently. But seriously, good luck figuring out what you are seeing and what those numbers are for sure.
Minnow
Fish finder really helps to enhanced ones probability to catch fishes, and focus of catching good fishes without much of struggle aside I agree with others The Brand of Fish Finder you're using your setting also pays a crucial part I think you might find how to set your setting to find the fishes you are looking for or you can ask other people who fish at your places they comes really useful
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Depth finder interpretations
This is an old thread but it has a lot of info on reading depth finders. It dates back before some of the new technology but there are almost 300 posts on it so it runs through several generations of depth finders
.Hope it helps.
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/sout...terpretations/
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Crappie Wall Hanger II
Some of the best ones I have seen done were actually guys looking for catfish. Catfish are big[ger than crappie] and have big swim bladders so they show up well. Some of the guys that drift or troll (for walleye or lake trouts or whatever you troll for) can also see their bait on the screen and you can actually see the fish come up to it. I recommend you search youtube for some of those.
Get rid of the fish symbols, turn fish alarm off, run your graph speed at the speed you are moving the boat (set it to 3 if you are moving at 3 mph, 2 for 2, etc.), keep the sensitivity somewhere in the middle and the de-clutter feature turned to what you need to keep the screen mostly clean.
I am continually amazed at what you can see on these things when you get them dialed in and really understand what the screen is representing to you that is under the boat.
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Manual for that is here: https://www.humminbird.com/sites/hum...hd_531716e.pdf
No "g" in Humminbird. (Alabama spelling - just kidding!)
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Well it appears the second depth number was really the surface water temp! I should have been in the navy!
Keeper
Go to Bass Pro or Cabela's and have someone there explain what it all means. I mostly use mine to show the depth and if fish are in the area. From there, I fish multiple depths straight off the boat and work it from there. Good luck and hope you get it figured out, because they are handy tools.
