Yes they were drop line shots....The blue dots were schools of coota...bottom fish were Morwong....and Stripey Trumpeter..Originally Posted by reel scream
Mick
Yes they were drop line shots....The blue dots were schools of coota...bottom fish were Morwong....and Stripey Trumpeter..
Mick
More Furuno Pics
check these arches out from awoonga at chrissy and the result from it
Few Pics taken last week, held lots of bait fish and Coota, Several stripey trumpeter were caught hard in on the ledge
Mick
soggy,
Not that I'm an expert, but my simple rule is Red = Soft, Yellow = Hard. Full stop!!!
So, if you see a yellow bottom, then that is hard... sand, rock etc. The harder the bottom, the thicker the colour line will be.
You will sometimes see a yellow bottom (hard) with a long red strip (soft) just above it, that you know cannot be fish. In this case, it is probably kelp or seagrass or something like that.
Anything red/blue in the middle of the water column is worth checking out.
If you see a ball of red/blue, then that is clearly a baitball.
If you see a red/blue arch, that is probably a big fish...
and so on..... If anyone disagrees with this... please let me know, since I am learning as well!!!!!
BTW, I use a Lowrance, but I guess the colours will be the same for all units??
cheers
Mike
ColorLine lets you distinguish between strong and weak echoes. It
"paints" a brighter color on targets that are stronger than a preset
value. This allows you to tell the difference between a hard and soft
bottom. For example, a soft, muddy or weedy bottom returns a weaker
signal which is shown with a narrow, colored line (dark blue tinged
with red or a little yellow.) Since fish are among the weakest echoes,
they show up mostly as blue arches. A hard bottom or other relatively
hard target returns a strong signal which causes a wider brightly colored
line (reddish yellow to bright yellow.)
If you have two signals of equal size, one with red to yellow color and
the other without, then the target with brighter color (yellow) is the
stronger signal. This helps distinguish weeds from trees on the bottom,
or fish from structure
here is a pic from last weekend, looking for coral trout and found some
Hey Wahoo
I see boat roll (with the swell) and perhaps some structure there....WTF am I missing on my sounder?
Where are you seeing fish?
Did you change gain half way thru that piccy?
90 Fathom Rock holding a School of Stripey Trumpeter
Have come to grips with my sounder fairly well but, does anyone have a photo of a lowrance sounder showing a gravell bottom.
Regards
Honda
50 hz is 8 degreesYep our sounders have deffinatly changed the way me and dad fish, so much easier to find the holes
col
honda900 if i go out on saturday i'll get you a pic.. good coccal beds up the creek and my new colour lowrance just turned up
here are 2 pics taken today with my new Lowrance LMS-527 sounder. still have to play around with some of the finer details.
it's of a cockly bottom. best i could do for ya honda900
hey local_guy
Do you have any photos of any fish or bait schools on your lms527? I have the lms525 whish is the same sounder as yours except it has an external antenna(GPS) and paddle wheel(water speed) and i was wondering if you tinkered with any of the sonar settings at all. I have only had my boat and sounder for a week and still trying to tweak them as best as i could.
Cheers Mate
hey local_guy
Do you have any photos of any fish or bait schools on your lms527? I have the lms525 whish is the same sounder as yours except it has an external antenna(GPS) and paddle wheel(water speed) and i was wondering if you tinkered with any of the sonar settings at all. I have only had my boat and sounder for a week and still trying to tweak them as best as i could.
Cheers Mate
nah.. took those photos on my maiden trip.... all that rubbish that is shown on the screen i think is just crap in the water.. ie. leaves, sticks, etc, as we saw a bit floating on the surface that day. we have had some preety major rain here and those images were taken with the sensativity level on 74% which is preety low IMO.
but i will admit, when i had my bait on the bottom (20cm Mullet) i could see a clear blob of what would have been the fish swimming just off the bottom on the sounder, unfortunately i didn't get a pic.
as for sonar settings what do you want to know. if you've been playing with the simulator you will find that on the water is completely different than the simulator.
best thing i can tell you is to either go through the manual or download it as well as the simulator and have a play.
if you have any specific questions you want answers to, just ask.
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