03-12-2009, 10:39 PM
Color "on top of the water" is merely surface clutter, of no significance. Color on the bottom represents the hardness and/or content of the bottom (mud, rock, stones, etc.) The boomerang "stuff" in the water is fish!!! The upsidedown boomerangs are how the sonar interprets the "target." The lower, outside part of the boomerang is the instant that the fish is on the outside of your signal cone. The center of the boomerang is the instant the fish is in the center of your signal cone (shortest distance between transducer and the target is straight down). A school of bait fish will appear as a cluster of thinner boomerangs, or a "glob" of echos rather than a defined boomerang.
Get yourself a video tutorial, or look on line for one, to understand the basics of how sonar works. Or, find someone who REALLY knows how they work and uses them regularly in all their fishing.
And yes, get the best Lowrance you can find. Anything around $500 will be very high quality from Lowrance. The X-series, and the LCX series are both excellent.
And don't listen to any of the bunk that any of these screens give you a "delayed" reading. That's the biggest hogwash ever spoken about liquid crystal sonars. What is IMMEDIATE is printing on the right side of the screen. Sure, the stuff that printed 3 seconds ago or 20 seconds ago is still scrolling to the left, but that's ancient history. When the fish or bottom are printing on the far right edge, it is IMMEDIATE. Just put a jig down under the sonar and move it up and down to see for yourself. Just as immediate as any flasher. Sonar is sonar, it all works on the same principle of a sound wave returning an "echo". Only the displays and features change.
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Get yourself a video tutorial, or look on line for one, to understand the basics of how sonar works. Or, find someone who REALLY knows how they work and uses them regularly in all their fishing.
And yes, get the best Lowrance you can find. Anything around $500 will be very high quality from Lowrance. The X-series, and the LCX series are both excellent.
And don't listen to any of the bunk that any of these screens give you a "delayed" reading. That's the biggest hogwash ever spoken about liquid crystal sonars. What is IMMEDIATE is printing on the right side of the screen. Sure, the stuff that printed 3 seconds ago or 20 seconds ago is still scrolling to the left, but that's ancient history. When the fish or bottom are printing on the far right edge, it is IMMEDIATE. Just put a jig down under the sonar and move it up and down to see for yourself. Just as immediate as any flasher. Sonar is sonar, it all works on the same principle of a sound wave returning an "echo". Only the displays and features change.
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