need a new ff/chartplotter

[Double Hall]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

No.. as I stated earlier,I have Lowrance color machine ( model is lost to me) by cranking up the sensitivity to 95%, increasing the ping speed to max, and slowing down the scroll speed, I can see a 3lb cod fish in 300' of water in a nice clear arch...in water less than 100' the automatic mode, marks fish arches fine with no "monkeying with the system...

Thanks. I've never adjusted anything on the FF portion of my unit so I'll have to try tinkering with it and see what happens. My biggest learning obstacle is figuring out what "bait" looks like, rather than just a garble of surface noise dots.

I think I have "surface noise" turned off, although I dont know what that means/does for me.

[Van]

Originally Posted by Double Hall

Thanks. I've never adjusted anything on the FF portion of my unit so I'll have to try tinkering with it and see what happens. My biggest learning obstacle is figuring out what "bait" looks like, rather than just a garble of surface noise dots.

I think I have "surface noise" turned off, although I dont know what that means/does for me.

Somethimes I use the depth indicator on my Furuno, sometimes not.
Even though these are crappy cellphone pics, easy to see bait at the top and lurking bass (moving) underneath with depth marks. THe other one without depth marks shows bass right inbetween schools of bait. So not sure on the garmin, but Furuno is crystal clear. It is well known Garmin has some more work to do on their FF.

[Double Hall]

Originally Posted by Van

Somethimes I use the depth indicator on my Furuno, sometimes not.
Even though these are crappy cellphone pics, easy to see bait at the top and lurking bass (moving) underneath with depth marks. THe other one without depth marks shows bass right inbetween schools of bait. So not sure on the garmin, but Furuno is crystal clear. It is well known Garmin has some more work to do on their FF.

Thanks for the visual. I'm not seeing bait like in your 2nd pic, even when catching mackerel. I think I'll turn off symbols again, and mess with the gain. Probably need to turn it up.