When running your side imaging, how far out to each side do you guys prefer to run? I’ve yet to run mine out much past 130 feet. Resolution seems to drop off beyond that. Do you guys run further out till you find something of interest and then narrow your field?
I would assume that would certainly be the idea if you want to find something (i.e. railroad tracks..) Run a very wide sweep, find something of interest, then go back to it in more detail.
Generally when I want a decent picture of the bottom and find struture, fish, etc, I’ll run 50 – 120 feet.. Usually, though, about 50-70 feet a lot of times, just because if there are small walleye sized fish, i’m hoping to see those returns and catch the shadows. Basically, within casting distance. If I see something I like, I might go under 50 feet to get a good view, but I think thats rare. Usually 60 or 70 feet gives a pretty good image for me. If I’m trolling and getting good images, I might widen it a little to see if I can find general pods of fish if they are scattered of a flat or something. But I still want enough detail to tell what stuff is on the bottom.
If I am just generally searching, I’ll go out wider.. I don’t think I have run it out to the max width yet, though. I’ll have to give that a shot tomorrow on the water. 2 football fields, one to each side. We’ll see what sort of detail that scan gives em…
Everyone does it differently, I’m sure. Either way, they sure are fun to view!!
Jason – when you found those tracks, did you just happen to come accross them, or were you searching large area with very wide sweeps?
Mike
I found I keep mine at about 100′ for general use. If I’m looking for a spot on the spot, I might cut it down to 70′ for a finer detail. Depth of water also contributes
I’ve been working with a similar range….100-130 feet. I was running it out to 140 the other day with the 1197. Note the range measurements at the tops of these two screen captures. The outermost stuff (at the long end of the range).
I found those rails while fishing with a “typical” 120 ft range (last screen capture here….with the 997).
Jason, what is your interpretation on the right side of your first image??
Mike
Pile of dog poop?
No, really, it’s one of the Rod and Gun Club’s artificial rock reefs.
I usually go around 50′, but as low as 20′ at times. I only use the 100’+ when I’m really searching around. I only fish the river, so I’m usually shoreline or other structure oriented. Pretty good detail though! Would put an image, but my .PNG aren’t loading, sorry.
Have you tried just converting to .jpg? That should upload fine. just open any photo editor (“paint” under accessories in the start menu on any pc works just fine), open the .png image, and then “save as” and make it a .jpg image. Then just upload those .jpg images.
We’d love to see you SI images!
Mike
That’s what I was doing. Here is a hoopnet and the bottom of the sandpits in Pool 14.
Way cool!
Looks like a giant underwater ribbed prohylactic. 
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Way cool!
Looks like a giant underwater ribbed prohylactic.
Oh yeah, what brand?
These Humminbirds are amazing!
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Way cool!
Looks like a giant underwater ribbed prohylactic.
These Humminbirds are amazing!
If there was a chop on the water that day…. Maybe “Rough Rider” brand?? I think you need the 1197 to see that much detail…. 
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