08-13-2003, 10:55 PM
[cool]Many of the bells and whistles of sonar are wasted on float tubers (and tooners). The pulse rate of the sonar remains essentially the same at any speed. However, if you are prospecting at 10 miles an hour, from a boat, you would want a faster scroll speed to display a more realistic and accurate readout. A slow scroll speed at high water speed would run all the fish signals together, looking like you were over the world's thickest school of fish.
That's also why I do not recommend buying the high wattage units that display water speed and other niceties that are wasted on floatation fishing.
When fishiing stationary, or moving slowly, I keep the scroll speed slow. This insures that I capture any solid object (fish) entering the cone of the signal. I can't recall ever wanting to have the icons scroll off the screen faster. I like them to remain a few seconds so that if I look away for a bit I do not miss something.
One of the questions a lot of people have is why the fish icons all swim the same way. Duh. My wife and I banter back and forth that one of us saw a large fish on the screen...but it was swimming away from the other person. Or maybe we warn that the subject fish is swimming toward our partner and that they should be ready.
Now you have to launch that craft on some water deep enough to let you put the sonar through its paces. It's great to move in and out from the shoreline and note the incline of the bank...together with bumps, humps and depressions...and to note how the irregularities seem to attract and hold fish. And, on many occasions, you will catch fish while fishing a certain depth...sometimes without seeing fish marks on your screen beforehand. They do come in from the side at times. But, when you have established a pattern that the fish are hitting in a certain depth, you can use your sonar to keep yourself in high percentage water. Many are the days when using that tactic has meant the difference between a few fish and a lot of fish.
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That's also why I do not recommend buying the high wattage units that display water speed and other niceties that are wasted on floatation fishing.
When fishiing stationary, or moving slowly, I keep the scroll speed slow. This insures that I capture any solid object (fish) entering the cone of the signal. I can't recall ever wanting to have the icons scroll off the screen faster. I like them to remain a few seconds so that if I look away for a bit I do not miss something.
One of the questions a lot of people have is why the fish icons all swim the same way. Duh. My wife and I banter back and forth that one of us saw a large fish on the screen...but it was swimming away from the other person. Or maybe we warn that the subject fish is swimming toward our partner and that they should be ready.
Now you have to launch that craft on some water deep enough to let you put the sonar through its paces. It's great to move in and out from the shoreline and note the incline of the bank...together with bumps, humps and depressions...and to note how the irregularities seem to attract and hold fish. And, on many occasions, you will catch fish while fishing a certain depth...sometimes without seeing fish marks on your screen beforehand. They do come in from the side at times. But, when you have established a pattern that the fish are hitting in a certain depth, you can use your sonar to keep yourself in high percentage water. Many are the days when using that tactic has meant the difference between a few fish and a lot of fish.
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