Thread: Need a little help......

LowePro, I am familiar with Microsoft Paint enough to do a little work in there. I just didn't think about putting my screenshots in it. I have to use Paint for work applications all the time. I try to leave my work at work and not cross the two.

That run is pretty long. I'm thinking it may have been created a few years back when Reelfoot got really low and that area of the lake was dry. That's probably where the last bit of water was draining to the south. I saw a lot of stuff in that really shallow water. The SI picked up more than I ever expected in less than 3 FOW.

Kosmo, that's good to know about the soft bottom/hard bottom. I fish several oxbows, but I also fish some other lakes like Kentucky Lake, Dardanelle, Greers Ferry, etc. That will be good to see this thing in use on one of those lakes.........

Originally Posted by arkcrappie

LowePro, I am familiar with Microsoft Paint enough to do a little work in there. I just didn't think about putting my screenshots in it. I have to use Paint for work applications all the time. I try to leave my work at work and not cross the two.

That run is pretty long. I'm thinking it may have been created a few years back when Reelfoot got really low and that area of the lake was dry. That's probably where the last bit of water was draining to the south. I saw a lot of stuff in that really shallow water. The SI picked up more than I ever expected in less than 3 FOW.

Kosmo, that's good to know about the soft bottom/hard bottom. I fish several oxbows, but I also fish some other lakes like Kentucky Lake, Dardanelle, Greers Ferry, etc. That will be good to see this thing in use on one of those lakes.........

You ever do any good in greers ferry? I fish there about once a month because I go up to visit my sister. I have yet to catch a crappie there, but have caught my limit of keeper walleye trying to catch crappie. Would like to get good on that lake, dont really care what I would be catching there. Just wanna add something to make the trip there every month to be more worth it.

Post #1 in the "How To and FAQ" sticky deals with Using Paint...

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/side-...reting-images/

Rickie

I'm just the opposite. I catch crappie up there on most every trip but I rarely catch a walleye! It's a great lake to fish. I'm curious as to what the side imaging will look like in 30-100 feet of water.

Paint can be used to zoom crop and point stuff out but the impression of actually "inhancing" it is not done. The shot that comes off the card is what you have.

this can be seen in a earlier shot I posted then went into paint to get a zoomed shot of structure. I would think that if a shot was made to look like something that was not good to begin with would be altered to give a fails shot. Paint is a great tool in scouting when used with HV and HumPC.

Low if I gave that impression then I apologize.

As as shallow as that is and with having more than one I would lean toward someone not know where the trim button was lol

Slabbacks, shallow means nothing. There are regularly people running wide open with anything from 5 hp up to 250 hp. Reelfoot is notorius for claiming several lower units every year. I am actually one of the very few that drops off plane in that area.

Maybe someone could explain the use of Humviewer and Humminbird PC to arkcrappie (and to me!). I think they take recordings and snapshots from sd card and put them on these software programs. From there all of your unit controls (zoom, pallette, sensitivity, contrast, etc) can be changed on your computer. I think lots of detail comes from the computer that isn't able to be seen on the water....at least I think that's how these guys who are really good are doing it.

Originally Posted by vic n

Maybe someone could explain the use of Humviewer and Humminbird PC to arkcrappie (and to me!). I think they take recordings and snapshots from sd card and put them on these software programs. From there all of your unit controls (zoom, pallette, sensitivity, contrast, etc) can be changed on your computer. I think lots of detail comes from the computer that isn't able to be seen on the water....at least I think that's how these guys who are really good are doing it.

Humminbird PC is navigation data management...(it is a free program available in your HB account when you register your unit)...

Humviewer is a 3rd party sonar viewing program (for HB sonar) ...written by a guy from Denmark...
HumViewer

Humviewer has better tools for manipulating the recordings than playing the recording on the HB unit....

Rickie

Ark I've always said that lake would come off the bucket list some day but I also think the unknown and the stories of loosing a lower unit has held me back. I've seen some great px come from up there...ice cover...glass...to the wind making it look like the east banks. With my luck if I went, you next shot would show several more cuts in the mud and a nice shot of a lower unit

Just don't run wide open over there unless you are positive about where you are!! I run a 70hp motor and there are places I run full out, and many more I idle. Lot's of structure to hit in the right places. PM me if you ever head that way and I'll give you all the help I can.