X67C Ice MAchine Issue

[FlatBack]

I am not trying to re-open the dichotomy experienced earlier this seson between flasher and non- flasher users,

I have them both and love them equally. However, I was fishing crappies yesterday and my x67c was acting strange. It would read 1.7 feet, then it would read 32 feet, which was the actual depth I was fishing. I got so frustrated I went back to the good 'ole fl-8.

Does anyone know what was going on with the x67c?

Thanks for any advice.

[Skeets]

I have had that happen on mine, sometimes if there is lots of fish below you, it can read the depth of the fish and not the actual lake bottom.

A FL-8 will do the same, you will just see constant red.

I really like using it in the graph mode rather than the flasher.

I have the 102C, just a bigger screen that the X67C.

[minnow_03]

This is a problem becouse it is searching for the bottom and then changing the settings for this depth which can screw things up. What you can do is put it in chart manual mode. it is under the same page as interference rejection and surface rejection. In this mode it will act like a vex, in that it won't care how deep it is, it will just show you the signal for the depth selected. Auto depth does not work on this setting though, but now that I found it, I will always use it.

Lowrance needs to do a better job of explaining their product for ice fishing use. It took me a week to figure out that you could only adjust interference rejection on the graph screen, and a year to find the chart manual mode setting(by accident). Once you figure it out though, it is up there with any depth finder.