Fine Tune Sonar

[propster]

RK did a post on this subject a year or so ago and I wonder if anybody can direct me to it, or if not Rob if you could remind me. I wrote it down but now can't find it. It was how to fine tune your sonar (mine is Lowrance LMS332)to better discern baitfish, without making the whole thing cloudy, etc. Thanks guys.

[cjac]

Good question! I go thru this ritual every year it seems, and making adjustments from a weed lake to a hard bottom lake.

Here's a thread from last year......

Sonar Settings

[cjac]

Here's the more detailed one on finding baitfish.....

FYI....I just typed in "sonar" on the search function and found it pretty easy. Get used to that function and it's pretty helpful!

Finding Baitfish on the Sonar

[propster]

Perfect. Thanks Chris.

[10,000 Casts]

Propster,

The Doc Sampson DVD does through all that. Might not be a bad pick up.

[Nick Kuhn]

I have an x-37 (default unit for tracker boats) and my only complaint about it is that it's very difficult to tell crappies and panfish apart from larger fish. If I turn off the main and then start using the trolling motor for positioning it becomes possible to tell them apart, just not with the main running. Any tips there?

[veha44]

Unfortunatly there is no easy default answer for all lowrance units other then to say that you actually have to play around with your settings such as depth range, color line, sensitivity, noise rejection etc, until the unit reads the way that you want. I was shown on the "old" x-25's a way that while using the white background to make hard bottom incredibly easy to read, as soft bottom was all one color and anything harder came up a different one. The problem was that the settings to do this were different if you used a x110, x25 or 330c. It also did not do a good job of showing fish, but that was not the goal either. The settings for this screen were also terrible when being used with any other screen color (ie bottom color tracking, blue background, etc). On top of that it can change with the lakes that you fish as well. If one lake has more floating debris you might need to "tweak" the settings again.

[propster]

The other thing I wonder if anyone can help with. How to avoid or minimize the interference I get when I run both the bow sonar and back sonar/gps unit? Usually one will continue to read accurately (front sonar normally) while the other starts to tell me it's 600 feet. any ideas?