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| I have a humminbird SI sonar so it may be quite different, but playing wi the simulator was helpful only to get the basic gist of navigation. After that, i found that doing drive-bys of known objects (boat launch, rip rap bank, submerged trees or weeds you can see, anything in clear water you can ID from above, etc) was super helpful. On mine I also will freeze the screen with the cursor and then adjust settings--it helped me to have the screen frozen as you can watch exactly what the setting does on that bottom, etc. Also, taking screenshots and posting them to get feedback was super helpful--there is a really great sonar image interpretation forum at bassboat central that was immensely helpful for me. They'll help trouble shoot settings, setup, help interpret what you are seeing, etc. Also, take a full half day sometime--nasty weather, fish arent biting, etc--and dont fish, just play with the sonar. Its time well spent learning how to use it that you would never get if you didnt make time for it. You'll be blown away what kind of things you'll see on the bottom of the lake, not just fish but all sorts of stuff, cars, sunken boats, railroad tracks, building foundations, you name it, and sometimes you literally get almost photographic quality. It's pretty fun in its own right!
Fun stuff--drydock tracks and a 150 year old wreck in the second image. They aren't posting as I expected but hopefully the link works without the IMG tags
[IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k196/David_Furman/image_zps50b77217.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k196/David_Furman/image_zps643c4728.jpg[/IMG]
Edited by Macintosh 2/25/2014 11:21 AM
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