I read elsewhere that someone had sent a question to Lowrance specifically asking about the arch sizes on the sonar units.
The tech replied saying that the sonar works by bouncing a signal of the swim bladder of a fish and that the size of the fish has nothing to do with the size of the arch on the screen. So fish with big swim bladders will show up as bigger fish.
Generally, the bigger the fish the bigger the bladder, but there are some fish, such as a salmon, that have a small swim bladders.
Is this right? I always assumed the bigger the arch the bigger the fish.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I read elsewhere that someone had sent a question to Lowrance specifically asking about the arch sizes on the sonar units.
The tech replied saying that the sonar works by bouncing a signal of the swim bladder of a fish and that the size of the fish has nothing to do with the size of the arch on the screen. So fish with big swim bladders will show up as bigger fish.
Generally, the bigger the fish the bigger the bladder, but there are some fish, such as a salmon, that have a small swim bladders.
Is this right? I always assumed the bigger the arch the bigger the fish.
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