I have a humminbird 797 and it doesn't graph fish very well if at all...I have a lowrance 334 on the bow and it shows almost perfect arcs that make distinguishing fish and rocks and weeds very easy. I ran a test by watching both units simultaneously at the same settings, the lowrance graphed fish with perfect arcs 6" to 2 feet off bottom, it showed a school of baitfish with small arcs by it which were smaller perch feeding, the humminbird was showing small straight lines which didn't look anything like fish, it looked more like a small clump of weeds, and it didn't graph the school of baitfish that the lowrance did either.
Any thoughts? I have the sensitivity all the way up and chart speed up around 80%. It seems that even though the sensitivity is all the way it could still go up more.
The lowrance unit appears to be much better at showing bottom definition and differentiating between structure, as well as the fish graphing thing.
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 have a humminbird 797 and it doesn't graph fish very well if at all...I have a lowrance 334 on the bow and it shows almost perfect arcs that make distinguishing fish and rocks and weeds very easy. I ran a test by watching both units simultaneously at the same settings, the lowrance graphed fish with perfect arcs 6" to 2 feet off bottom, it showed a school of baitfish with small arcs by it which were smaller perch feeding, the humminbird was showing small straight lines which didn't look anything like fish, it looked more like a small clump of weeds, and it didn't graph the school of baitfish that the lowrance did either.
Any thoughts? I have the sensitivity all the way up and chart speed up around 80%. It seems that even though the sensitivity is all the way it could still go up more.
The lowrance unit appears to be much better at showing bottom definition and differentiating between structure, as well as the fish graphing thing.
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