I’m really glad that I watched this video. Never had such a great job from anyone explaining how to find, identifying and recognize structure, bait , and fish. Applaud all you work. Thanks
Lol...I wonder how much time I've spent fishing for air bubbles? Especially before getting my new Garmin with real view...Gah! "Dang these fish just won't bite" 2 hrs later and halfway through the tackle box insistent on finding what they want to eat...lol. Ahhhh man...Im sure we've all done it!
First let me thank you for this video. I am retired and can’t afford these electronics on my boat. But I absolutely love to watch this new technology unfold. I learned to fish on a flasher and got pretty good at it. For me now I have the navionics app on my phone and I have go pretty good at it.Thier is so much detail on the app I can see everything and position my boat just where it needs to be. I am fishing structure and not looking for fish on a screen. That is the reason they call it fishing and not looking.😎❤️🎣
These guys could make videos for days about this stuff and I would learn something new every time. Thanks for clarifying that I’m not crazy when I see tons of fish looking images on the screen and they’re actually air bubbles
You can tell Tim enjoyed this because he's in his element. We're all naturally better at what we enjoy the most and he's no exception. Well done sir and please give us more basic sonar videos. I'm 52 and fished my entire life and most of that competing. However I'm just starting to learn electronics. So yes more of these and be blessed tactical bassin
First of all thank you so much for an electronics video that DIDN'T rely on forward facing sonar! I think this level is way more relatable to a bigger audience. That said, do you have any way to distinguish something like a ball of shad vs a school of perch or bluegill? Both may have bass on them but I would want to fish them differently!
Glad you enjoyed it! That is tough one. A lot of the fisheries we fish dont have perch but when I have come across that situation up north, it seems that the Perch actually bite your baits.
@@tacticalbassin oh those perch will eat bass baits better than the bass most of the time! Only problem is when they're eating the tails off my pricey keitechs, or stealing drop shot baits right off the hook. But you gotta pay to play, I think that's just part of the game.
All the big units and live scope and all that are awesome and I’d love to have them at some point but it’s insane how much my helix 7 with MSI Has opened my eyes to what’s below the surface of the water and I think learning on something like that is making me a better angler
I feel the same way! Definitely in the market for something forward facing but I think learning on nothing more than 2d, di and si has made me a better angler. It’s a skill set people are already ignoring in favor of scoping everything first
Wow. As a kayak/bank angler who is trying to gain an understanding of how sonar works (before falling down an expensive rabbit hole), this is super helpful! Think that'll be a next-year purchase for me though.
Excellent video, y’all’s videos always help me learn and understand more and more every time I watch one!!! I’ve been wanting to learn more about electronics and how to use them and this video really helped! Maybe the next electronics video y’all can go over what your looking at on the graph to where that is at in the water. Could Help some of us put our baits in the accurate spots and catch more fish.
Finally somebody nailed it! Great info Tim! Adding the map is excellent and showing what the fish look like is the hardest thing to learn. Why do you think they did not show on sidescan? If you could add live sonar to this type video I think it would be even better.
Great info as always. You guys are great at communicating. Your knowledge and your passion comes through loud and clear. Would love to see more on electronics.
I need to find a vid like this for garmin gpsmap and echomap units. This video is very eye opening. Like I'm in the water in an electronics class right now. High quality 👌
Tim great video, I just learned so much just from this video, some of the things I was just totally missing and now I know and will be taking it to the lake tomorrow, Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge, this is why I follow you guys
Oooooo Tim! Going on pad without your life vest, how dare you 😅👍 Great video. I love these videos because I'm still learning my fish finder and this helps me realize what exactly I'm looking at
This video was sooooo helpful. Would you consider doing one that teaches the main uses of side imaging. I struggling knowing what I am seeing and how to use it.
Hi, Great job explaining down and side imaging .I am close to investing in electronics for my boat but am torn as to the live view/ forward scan. Do you use or rely on it and would I be rather sorry to not spend more money to get that as well? Plus great point on the bubbles I thought it was all fish. Thanks alot.
I’m a total newbie to electronics. I’ve got a simple Garmon Striker 4 on my kayak. 2D only. Great video to help understand what I’m seeing. When did you upgrade to a Skeeter FXR?
I fish northern alberta lakes for walleye and at times the bait is so dense that its top to bottom of the screen. Humminbird changed the way I fish. It is amazing technology.
Been looking for this video and yes I would love to see more of these because I really can’t understand what I’m seeing while looking at mine especially side imagining. Just can’t get into my mind how the bottom looks as if I were standing on the bottom looking at it. So please do some more and explain more about the actual picture. Not really interested in seeing the fish until I can understand what that bottom looks like if there was no water there. Thanks for sharing.
Very good presentation on sonar electronics. I see more information than my small brain can.process. Two.observations. If I quit eating and payin g my mortgage, I could have all those screens on my boat. The lakes I fish are around 1000 acre lakes and are not on any of the lake map chips offered today. Also, they have a lot of flooded timber, so you get overwhelmed with fish holding structure. The advantage of 2D sonar you can eleminate dead water quickly. One question that pops up in my mind is why bubbles in 20 to 30 feet of water?
Thanks Tim. I have a grasp if down imaging but still having trouble seeing fish on side imaging. Could you show more side imaging with fish on it. Thanks.
So follow the bait. There may be bait shallow. There may be bait under the thermocline. Long sloped points seemed to be good start to find the schooling fish. Or before a ledge.
Great video. Thank you. I’m just now starting to learn all these different sonars and how they work. I noticed you are reading 2D, Down and side imaging with your trolling motor not deployed. Are you reading those from your transducer at the back of the boat?
awesome video bub...answered so many of my questions and I only have the piranha max 4 di. I have a better idea of what to look for. I think I'm still gonna have a problem determining hard bottom from soft bottoms. any suggestions?
Actually 1st for once..lol. I want a solix. Those look so much better than my little helix. When did you guys switch from the solix to the Apex? I just noticed
We still have Solix in the mix on both boats but we've been steadily upgrading any unit that we need to export video out of to Apex. For the every day consumer that's not an important feature but for us, that's the difference between being able to share our screen with you right before dark (because of screen glare all day) or being able to share it any time in any conditions.
@@tacticalbassin Other than the screen share aspect of it (which is awesome for us watching) are they much different in what they can do going from solix to apex?
Please correct me if I’m wrong because I’m learning electronics… Would side imaging be used more so just to identify larger structures and consistencies on the bottom and down imaging be used more for identifying what those specific objects are?
thanks for this very impressive from all angles. I wanted to check, I have a very basic FF with Chrip and DV setup. When I expand or lower the sonar imaging view with the +/- button, what basically do I do for the imaging. What's the basic rule behind this feature, please? lastly, how do I use the a-scope function, how do I really read it? Thanks again. David
Another Great informative video 😎 ???(except for side imaging which I don't have) Is the 2D & Down Scan going to look the same / similar on my Lowrance Hook2 7'' Split shot ???
I do a lot of trolling for Stripers and heavily use SI and DI. I find that, if I use the Water Column Sensitivity setting, it will really make the fish "pop"... Especially with SI. I noticed yours was totally off on both DI and SI. It does screw with the bottom transition imaging a bit but I find it to be an acceptable trade-off.
I had no idea about the bubbles. I ran a Garmin Vivid on my kayak with the automatic fish label markers enabled and I always thought it was weird that there were 100s of fish labeled on the screen all the time 😂
Easiest thing to do is “mark” a waypoint on what you want to fish I.e rock pile, stump, point etc. Then position the boat downwind of that mark using your map and that waypoint you created. Most effective way to make sure you don’t miss the cast!
