Thread: Crappie in Side Image

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Nice mess of feeshies ...

Rickie

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Very nice LowePro!! Those look like very nice size fish, will fish that size cast a shadow if they are off to the side?? How tight together would the school have to be to cast a shadow showing whole school? I can see fish below on my 899 but not sure of size of fish but having trouble seeing fish off to side. I'm sure most is my inexperience on reading and adjusting unit.

They do not have to be very big to cast a shadow. In fact there are shadows in the image they are just hard to see because I took this picture with my phone of my graph. A "pik of a pik" takes out alot of detail as to what was really in the image. To make the fish pop out more turn ur sharpness up. This will make the fish pop out even more but often distorts everything else in the image. So I usually have my sharpness set on low until I find something that looks like fish, and then will turn it up to see just how many fish are out to the side. Need to make sure the distance ur scanning is appropriate for the depth you are scanning to see smaller fish like crappie. (EX. I was originally scanning at 85 feet in 7 feet deep of water. I saw these fish but they didn't pop out, they just barely caught my eye. So I narrowed my distance to 60 feet in 7 foot of water and that made the crappie way more noticeable. Almost jumped out at me. Shortening the distance "magnified" what was on the screen making the crappie proportionally correct with everything else that was on the screen.

Those are a couple of slabs your holding in your profile pik Swampseed!

I will give cranking up sharpness a try. Rickie has been great help and I have cut my side distance to no more than 60 hopefully helping me see better detail. My other problem is transducer mounted to trolling motor. I have a ram mount helping raise unit up but even when I'm on trolling motor and bent over looking at screen ( and it kills my back!) My face is still few feet from screen to see detail. And then throw the sun beating down its hard for me to see good. Those are Mississippi fish and can't wait to go back!!

Man I will meet ya there!!!