Thread: help with side imaging

Originally Posted by bowhunterhall

I have also been able to successfully pass something up and mark it on screen then find my way back to it via gps and throw out marker buoys and find that spot again

Well cewlbeanz...I think you are well on your way then...

Ask any questions you need...

Do you need me to edit another pic for fish echoes...??

Rickie

Originally Posted by bowhunterhall

so in this photo with the size of the fish echoes and the number of fish and the way they are stacked in there would you say thats crappie or bass?

Sometimes fish habits will help guess what certain echoes may be...

Crappie and bass tend to hold to structure...so as in the echoes around the brush...

Scattered solitary fish echoes can be catfish or carp....

Schooled fish echos not relating to structure can be white bass, yellow bass, striped bass..

Rickie

what about the down imaging shot i believe its the first one on our thread. how is that laid out in relation to the boat? the 2d is pretty much whats right below the TD so would the DI be the same? Just having a hard time understanding how its showing a photo from the side view when its scanning from above... if you understand what I'm saying

Originally Posted by bowhunterhall

what about the down imaging shot i believe its the first one on our thread. how is that laid out in relation to the boat? the 2d is pretty much whats right below the TD so would the DI be the same? Just having a hard time understanding how its showing a photo from the side view when its scanning from above... if you understand what I'm saying

The down image view is the same orientation as the 2d view...new data is painted onto the right edge and old data scrolls to the left...(imagine your body was actually standing on the lake bottom and looking sideways under your xducer...bottom of the lake at the bottom of the display...surface of the water at the top of the display...)

The xducer is (in fact) looking down...so the processor takes that info under the xducer and re-arranges the data into an image format (2d or DI)..like you were underwater and looking sideways thru the water column...

Rickie

thanks a lot rickie you're a life saver.... i was really getting frustrated with this thing

Originally Posted by bowhunterhall

thanks a lot rickie you're a life saver.... i was really getting frustrated with this thing

Ask questions...that's how we learn...

I check in frequently ...and there are many knowledgable guys in here if I'm not online...

Rickie

Originally Posted by rnvinc

Ask questions...that's how we learn...

I check in frequently ...and there are many knowledgable guys in here if I'm not online...

Rickie

And I really needed some clarification for my wife lol....I was having a hard time explaining why this "fish finder" that I just spent $1000 on couldn't find any fish....they were there the entire time just wasn't sure what I was looking at

Here the fishies in the down image view...



Rickie