Thread: Interpreting sideimaging

I would love to see some of you Pro's to give a seminar on using fishfinders. That would help more weekend fishermen than any other type seminars.

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

Maybe we should all just start pushing buttons and beeping the heck out of them display units. Just a thought..Beeps are free. Well, they were last week.

If its a sideimaging unit ill bet the beeps are at least 250.00 per beep!

Originally Posted by CrappieHead

I would love to see some of you Pro's to give a seminar on using fishfinders. That would help more weekend fishermen than any other type seminars.

How much will you pay me to teach you to learn this unit?
Wait you have Pro on that. So that leaves me out, but I can use mine.
Pete

I was going to try and stay out of discussions like this but I keep grinding my teeth. Understanding the side scan is easy. Just as a very basic, you see a blob over there, there's some thing over there to check out. Soon you get to where, oh this is deeper water by the size of the water column. Then it's, oh look at that boat on the bottom. The hardest part about using these is deciding whether or not to go back and check out what you just saw about 20 dozen times a trip.

WarrenMN

Originally Posted by WarrenMN

I was going to try and stay out of discussions like this but I keep grinding my teeth. Understanding the side scan is easy. Just as a very basic, you see a blob over there, there's some thing over there to check out. Soon you get to where, oh this is deeper water by the size of the water column. Then it's, oh look at that boat on the bottom. The hardest part about using these is deciding whether or not to go back and check out what you just saw about 20 dozen times a trip.

WarrenMN

I agree with you. I think they are easier to use than the Lowrance units.

Not everyone understands these electronic's. We look to the people who do understand them to try and help us better understand them.

I guess I better understand things with hand on training.

I think these elictronic's makers should sell a DVD showing how to work them better for people like myself. Maybe they could show the elictronic's from the boat then show you from under the water what is there. So we see what things look like from in the boat.

Originally Posted by CrappieHead

Not everyone understands these electronic's. We look to the people who do understand them to try and help us better understand them.

I guess I better understand things with hand on training.

I think these elictronic's makers should sell a DVD showing how to work them better for people like myself. Maybe they could show the elictronic's from the boat then show you from under the water what is there. So we see what things look like from in the boat.

I think what Warren was saying is that we tend to complicate things that really aren't that complicated.

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

I think what Warren was saying is that we tend to complicate things that really aren't that complicated.

I can't agree more.. Folks, I am no guru at reading modern electronics.. But I found side imaging very easy to interpret after I got my unit and played with it a little. The first thing I did was put the boat in the water and went out and ran side scan on some stuff that I was already familiar with (brush that I had put in etc.)... After that it fell in place. Don't be afraid of it... The best way to learn it is to get out there and PLAY WITH IT...