How to use Fish Finders by Lowrance Electronics

You may see fish arches while trolling with the unit in a 0 - 60 foot scale, however it it much easier to see the arches when using the zoom feature. This enlarges all echoes on the screen. Turning the zoom feature on gives you a screen similar to the one at left. The range is 8 - 38 feet, a 30-foot zoom. As you can see, all targets have been enlarged, including the bottom signal. Fish arches (A & B) are much easier to detect, and important structure (C) near the bottom is magnified. This also shows small fish hanging just beneath the surface clutter (D). The above steps are all that's required to manually adjust your sonar unit for optimum fish finding capability. After you've become more familiar with your unit, you'll be able to adjust the sensitivity properly without having to look for a second echo. This picture came from the Lowrance Electronics site and is the property of that site.

Look at this link it is from Lowrance but will work for most other, fish arch finders. Follow these steps on setting up your electronics and spend time looking for fish. Get some markers, see what you think are fish, throw them out, come back around and fish the spot. Don't get discourged, not all fish are feeding, when you see them. I have included a pic from this info. http://www.fishfindercity.com/fitiandin.html . I will include some actual pics in later posts.

Fishing Partner

He does not tell any spots, or what we used to catch them on.

Fish from the 25th of November 2007, 60 ft of water

Water Temp 62.4 degrees, AT 44 degrees, learn to use a depth finder, these fish were at least a 100 yds from the bank. In 65 ft of water. Largemouth in 65 ft of water thats right.

Winter fish

Here are a few pics from 24 November 2007. Fish all caught in from 55 to 68 feet of water. If you can't find fish with a depth finder you need to spend more time on the lake learning to use your depth finder, instead of pounding the bank. If you continue to throw at visible cover after the water temp drops, that just leaves more fish for the ones, that can fish more than a cast from the bank. WT 63 degrees air temp 46 degrees, front coming in.