A few more side images….

Got out (briefly on the water with the family last night, just enough time to snap a few images before the 4 and 2 year olds were ready to head in. Although they did like playing (i.e. ripping apart and throwing over the side) with a bunch of dad’s plastic ringworms.

I can’t get enough of the little one saying “Fishy!! Fishy!!” though… Already got them into some small bass and crappies on the opener, but bluegull fishing will be (I hope) a riot with them this summer.

A few of these pics probably could be a little better. I was basically using factory settings (which works very well), but I was playing with chart speed, sharpness, side range, sensitivity, and other variables, which may have affected things a little.

I also didn’t realize that the screenshot included EVERYTHING exactly how it showed on the screen, so sorry for some of the menu items that show up in the middle of the shot. (Silly me, I should have known the term “screenshot” would mean exactly that.)

Hmmmm…

.PNG images didn’t post… Give me a minute…

Jason et al… Any reason why the site won’t allow my .png images to be uploaded???

Thanks!

Well, I’ll start with these I guess. These images were to see how well the SI read at speed. Better than I imagined, although these were some of the more clear “at speed” images.

Note: One image is at 25 mph, the other is at 41 mph

I must be doing something wrong, but it won’t allow the .png pics to upload. I saved them as .jpg, and it seems to upload just fine.

Anyway, here is unique looking si shot.

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I must be doing something wrong, but it won’t allow the .png pics to upload. I saved them as .jpg, and it seems to upload just fine.

Anyway, here is unique looking si shot.

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Is that a glacial lake bottom? That’s a cool image.

Yup, I thought it was pretty cool. Neat rock structure on last post’s image.

This shot was from a local “gem” of a lake.

Here are a few more images. Rocks, logs and otherwise mainly flat bottom. The third one looks like snag heaven.

A few more. Lots of logs and structure in the first image. Going directly over a small rockpile with some logs to the side in the second image. A few cribs and logs in the last image.

How do you view the bottom correctly? First time I have looken at one of these. Do you tilt your head to make it look right? Very cool to see those logs and cribs though! Can you tell how far those cribs are away from the boat by chance?

In the shot with the cribs… Look at the upper right corner. It says right 88 (and left 88 on the upper left corner). This is 88 feet to each side of the transducer. The onscreen image is showing a total scan of 176 feet (2×88) including the left and right image. Now look at the crib on the right side of the image. The crib structure ends roughtly halfway between the dark center of the shot (the boat’s path) and the far right side. So the crib is around 40 feet or so to the right side. (A little under half of the total 88 foot width.) The one on the left is roughly 65 feet out.

As far as viewing the image, I have looked at them quite a bit now, so I’m fairly used to seeing them. I have seen some people who will rotate the image so it might look more like veiwing towards a horizon, but usually if you just look at a few, it starts to make sense pretty quickly.

I’d probably get dizzy and fall out of the boat tilting my head that much.

So by the looks of it, you were in deeper water and are coming up the break, and the cribs are on the slope? How do the fish look?

Exacty right. It went from over 25 foot in that image to under 6 or 7.

Fish usually are brighter white marks, but how well you can view them will depend on how far your side imaging it set to reach to the left/right. It will also depend on how big the fish are.

If you have your imaging set to reach 250 feet to each side and want to mark a single bluegill, you probably arn’t going to see that return on the screen. But if you have it set at 50 feet to each side and want to mark a walleye, pod of walleyes, carp, sturgeon, etc, then that will be a much larger, more viewable sonar return. Larger fish on smaller scanning widths will show much better than smaller fish on larger scanning widths… There is only a finite amount of pixels to display a give sanned area. More information packed into the same amount pixels = less detail. Make sense?

Jason had some great shots of pods of walleyes in some of his lasts posts. Take a look at those, they are better than anything I got during my hour tour last night.

I have shots from last night of a number of fish, and a number of what could have been fish or could have been rocks. If they are tight to the bottom, its sometimes harder to distinguish. Its much easier to see a suspended fish that throws a pronounced shadow than one that is hugging bottom and might look more like a log or rock.

I believe some of the small, bright white marks in this image are fish (the ones on the right side middle, and lower inside right side), but they could also be small rocks, etc. Sometimes its much easier to tell, sometimes not.

One more image of a downed tree on the right. You can see that it sits off the bottom a little by the shadow separation from target. 27 fow. I assume the white patch on the left side is a small rock rubble area.

Cool images Mike!

You’ve got a fantastic transducer placement to get such crisp images at high speed.

Looks like you’ve found some great deep-water cover for spinners/bottom bouncers or cranks/leadcore.

I never knew the lake had so much structure.. Unreal!

We tried running core for about 45 minutes last night, but to no avail. Was hard to concentrate on corin’ it up with the family with, though, and I never really made it to the spots that I would have liked to hit…

Mike

I agree. Looks like youve got a good setup going there.

Nice images.

One more. Looks like there are a few high suspended fish in this shot. One mid-left and one lower-right. The dark shadows on the otherwise featureless bottom fall quite a ways from the actual bright fish mark, indicating a higher suspended fish.. A little hard to see when the image gets posted and made smaller, but you get the idea.