I have a Lowrance HDS 8 and was fishing this past weekend for the first time with it and started losing the bottom in about 300 ft running out. Trolled out to about 2500 ft and started comming back shallower and it finally starts reading again in 200 ft. Started trolling back deep and it kept the bottom out to 1000 ft. Next day I ran to 180ft and was fine until I backed down to get a crew members hat and once again lost the bottom. It took about 15 minutes for it to start reading again in 200 ft. Anyone have any sugestions to what could be causing this ?
Sounds more like a transducer malfunction than the unit.
Mark
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