Ultrex transducer help

[Jholder]

Swapped out a Fortrex for an Ultrex yesterday. Loving everything about it but I am having some issues with the built in transducer. Running Gen 2 Lowrances with all of the latest updates. When I went to select a transducer on the graph, the US 2, is not in the list. US2 is what tech support at Lowrance told me to use and assured me it would be on the list. Without it being in the list, I was curious if you gentlemen had any recommendations or ideas? 

 

I found a post on another forum from someone asking the exact same question with the same setup. It was recommended to him to use Generic 83/200. This is the current selection I have it on. Works ok but it's having some issues picking up things that are moving to quickly. i.e if I am drop shotting it picks it up fine when my bait is stationary but if I start to jig it at all or reel up it loses it until I pause it. It does track it if I drop it very slowly or reel up slowly. I am guessing that it also wouldn't be picking up streaking fish as well, but that is just a guess. I didn't know if this was a related issue to the transducer selection or if something in my settings is not correct. Any advice is greatly appreciated. 

[fishinwrench]

10 minutes ago, Jholder said:

Swapped out a Fortrex for an Ultrex yesterday. Loving everything about it but I am having some issues with the built in transducer. Running Gen 2 Lowrances with all of the latest updates. When I went to select a transducer on the graph, the US 2, is not in the list. US2 is what tech support at Lowrance told me to use and assured me it would be on the list. Without it being in the list, I was curious if you gentlemen had any recommendations or ideas? 

 

I found a post on another forum from someone asking the exact same question with the same setup. It was recommended to him to use Generic 83/200. This is the current selection I have it on. Works ok but it's having some issues picking up things that are moving to quickly. i.e if I am drop shotting it picks it up fine when my bait is stationary but if I start to jig it at all or reel up it loses it until I pause it. It does track it if I drop it very slowly or reel up slowly. I am guessing that it also wouldn't be picking up streaking fish as well, but that is just a guess. I didn't know if this was a related issue to the transducer selection or if something in my settings is not correct. Any advice is greatly appreciated. 

If there's a setting for ping speed.....crank it up all the way.

[Jholder]

Upon doing a little more research it appears that the US2 is an ok transducer and 83/200 selection is the way to go but many people in similar situations have went back to an externally mounted Lowrance product. Apparently with much better results. Will tinker with the ping settings next time I get down though. Thank you Wrench

[Dutch]

If you switch ducers, have a look at the one that gives down and 2 d.

[IL Fisherman]

I use external spot light scan transducer.   Down scan and side scan.   I don’t use spot light feature. 

[buck818]

Ping is set to max. Still not reading moving lures.

[IL Fisherman]

Buck.  I’m far from an expert but I would play with the sensitivity