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Originally posted by PhinI appreciate the time it took you to save those screenshots to a card and post them here for folks. I disagree with your interpretation of this particular one, though. If you used a split zoom to view only the bottom 10ft of your traditional (funny calling chirp traditional) display, you would see that there’s more than one decent fish in your TX beams here.
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Phin, I agree 100%. I call it traditional because that’s what Garmin calls it in the menu. As far as the fish goes, I was really just trying to point out the obvious. I fish for and was referring to stripers, and right now they are generally not relating to the bottom.quote:
Originally posted by PhinThe short cut way I tell structure from fish is to pick the brown bottom color palette on a Simrad or Lowrance HDS, which is similar to what you are selecting on your garmin here for your traditional side, but you’ve given up the best way to determine what something is when you white-out that band with Garmin’s option. The traditional and best way to tell what is bottom and what is fish is to look at the tails showing in and under the primary bottom return and adjust your gain to show you the variations in a given set of conditions.
Above, your garmin’s gain is optimized to show fish info the best rather than the bottom info the best. The setting for either one is going to be different than the other, and any automatic setting is going to cost you information at times I feel. Garmin’s chirp settings are excellent for the most part, and a huge improvement over any other garmin sonar in the past. You still are giving up stuff by relying on its automatic stuff though. Not a big deal since you are obv
I said that I was done posting screenshots, but here are 2 more for information purposes.
To illustrate what Phin says about adjusting your settings, this shot is at 2 different powers. The left half is at 455KHz and the right half is at 800KHz. I was just easing along and changed the setting as I went. The bottom return is a continuous line even though the shot looks like a split screen. Notice the difference between the settings.
Here is noise/turbulence generated with my trolling motor on high speed. It disappears when I slow down the trolling motor.
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Nice shots. My new Garmin will mostly be used inshore, so the FF side won’t see much action. May be able to get this littler 17’er out to some live bottom when the weather is just right though. But, I better save this thread in case I ever keep my boat at home and take up striper fishing on Clarks Hill/Thurmond! Plenty of flooded bridges there too, so may have to go out there just to play with the DownVu.
I have the dragonfly and am more than impressed with it I was catching sheepshead by a bridge pylon and the dragonfly showed those fish , the tide turned the fish disappeared off the screen and I never got another bite I use it to for stiper fishing on the lake and its awesome it really takes the guess work out of the equation that you find in traditional units . To sum it up yes I will buy another dragonfly and yes it’s helped me catch more fish . The only negative I have about the dragon fly is the size of the transducer is HUGE !!!
Just had myself one of those “ta da!” moments! Thanks for the wisdom fellas!
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