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Location: menasha wi 54952 | So I bit the bullet. New Lowrance touch screen. I would like to downsize my learning curve before I hit the water to maximize my usage. I have thought about getting a Dr. Sonar how to cd and am researching local one day Lowrance events. Just finished reading the other "Cutting Edge" thread. Great power up anywhere with extra power cord ideas there. Anyone have any suggestions that I might not have thought of? |
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Location: Waite Park, MN | Here's a good start: in the Support Section of Lowrance's web site, there are a number of training videos I'd watch.
Or, if you're like me, I'd be getting power to it and turning it on right away! If you do that, go to the menu and turn on the "Simulator" mode. Then you experience it just like you're on the water -- ah, it feels so good to see those graphics running across the screen again! |
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| Good Morning
While it is a bit of a drive, there will be basic and advanced Lowrance presentations at the Cabela's in northern Illinois. The cost is around $30 each. Each class runs about 4 hours and is very informative. These classes with the Dr Sonar CDs will get you ready to use your Lowrance.
The extra power cord is a great way to watch the CDs and have your hands on the Lowrance units. The classes and then my homework with the CDs helped me greatly. I was able to hit the water and use the Lowrance with few problems. While the information contained in the Lowrance manuals, is clear and accurate, it is not the best tool to use when starting to use these units.
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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
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Edited by Macintosh 2/25/2014 11:21 AM
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| Get the Dr Sonar DVD's. Also see if he has any classes coming your way. Doc Sampson is a master of the sonar set up and interpretation. He's also a great Walleye angler and just one heck of a good guy.
Edited by Shep 2/25/2014 8:06 AM
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