Recent Lowrance Hds Fish Photos

[CaptainJoe]

Joe,

I only have the one HDS unit on the transom, but the transducer cables(both of them) run to the console in the same raceway as my ignition cables and the wiring for my console. Is that the type of close proximity you are talking about? If I were to try and isolotae them, how much separation should I try to get from my other wiring? Did you wrap them in some type of insulative material or did you just separate them?

Sorry for the stacking of questions and thanks for the help.

No, the cables in the raceway are all insulated, so that should not be an issue. At least is is not with mine, which is the same. At the bow, the trolling motor block, the wires are bare and that is what we moved to almost under the pedestal seat. We then wrapped the rest or the wires in carpet and zip tied them together. Is the HDS unit connected directly to the battery?

Does you downscan screen look like this picture? If it does, this is normal, because all we are seeing is tree structure, no fish in this shot. This tree needs some lights and ornaments.

Can you email me a copy of your screen shot?

[Bird Watcher]

No, the cables in the raceway are all insulated, so that should not be an issue. At least is is not with mine, which is the same. At the bow, the trolling motor block, the wires are bare and that is what we moved to almost under the pedestal seat. We then wrapped the rest or the wires in carpet and zip tied them together. Is the HDS unit connected directly to the battery?

Does you downscan screen look like this picture? If it does, this is normal, because all we are seeing is tree structure, no fish in this shot. This tree needs some lights and ornaments.

Can you email me a copy of your screen shot?

Joe,

The HDS unit is spliced in on my console to the main power wire coming in off the battery. The big difference in what I get on "normal" settings when I overlay downscan data is that instead of the background being white as it is in your photo, the background is tan. Also, when I do see target data, most of the time the downscan data overpowers the 2D data and everything, including fish, is represented by the tan downscan data. I can remedy this by turning down my sensitivity settings on the 2D, but I don't neccessarily want to do this. What happens is I start only picking fish up with the downscan, but they don't show up on the 2D and I know this is opposite of how it should be. My fish should be showing up in color and my structure should be showing up as tan.

I have a memory card in my unit, but I never think to save a screen shot. Next time I am out I will save one and send it to you.

I know I should have went to the electronics seminar in Springfield last week, but family committments had my night occupied.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions.

[CaptainJoe]

Yea, your description is not right. I would call Lowrance Tech Support.

Your welcome...sorry I could not help better.

[motoman]

Motoman,

On that particular screen shot, the GPS screen is not zoomed in. In the lower right hand corner, you can see that is set on .1 mile. I should be zoomed in to at least half that much (200' is ok) and the waypoints, of course, would not look so cluttered.

Now, what you see on that shot is two things: The waypoints with the "TR" in front of a number are the MO Dept of Conservation planted brushpile locations I downloaded from their website and loaded into my Lowrance. All other waypoints you see are my personal locations where I have caught a decent keeper. The Red Stop sign was my old system. Below is my new system.

My Lowrance unit can store 5,000 waypoints. So, what I do is setup a file for every lake that I fish. For example, I have a Table Rock Lake file that stores my waypoints, routes, and trails for Table Rock. I have one for the other lakes as well. So, If I plan to go to Bull Shoals, I save my Table Rock Lake file to a SD/MMC card, delete the file from my unit, and then load my Bull Shoals file. Result: Instead of a limit of 5,000 waypoints, I have 5,000 waypoints PER FILE. So, I can have 5,000 Table Rock Lake waypoints and 5,000 Bull Shoals lake waypoints, 5,000 Stockton, etc. So, I have no problem with placing a waypoint where I catch a decent keeper. But, I will not put more than three waypoints on any one spot. Three tells me that it is a good spot.

That's my system.

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Thanks for the info Joe. That makes sense!

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Don't be stingy posting those screen shots either. Those things are hypnotizing!