How To Find Fish With Side Imaging Sonar - Big Cat Fever 

Robert Livingston Not a problem Robert! We will be doing others so tune in and will cover some more great pieces of side imaging information!

ballpythons Thats what i enjoy hearing! Good luck to you out there!

Thanks for the good words!!!!! Best of luck to you with your new unit!

I couldn't have said it better myself Greg. Like you said, you have to adjust with the conditions for that day of fishing to get the best detail out of your fish finder. I hope someone is able to take this video and speed up that learning curve for identifying fish and start catching sooner! Thank you for the nice comment and best of luck to you on the water !

Its my pleasure Dieter! I am glad it helped you! I will be uploading more and more videos to shed some light on this technology and how it translates to anglers catching more fish! Thank you for your support. If there is anything I can do to help you just let me know!

Anytime D.Wize! It all about time on the water in the end!

the numbers at the bottem of the screen tell you how far away said object is. so if your scanning out 60 feet to each side.... and its right in the middle of the left side return.... then the fish is 30 feet left. to get depth.... make a mark point.... and go over said markpoint (or shift 30 feet left) and start using your traditional or down scan.....

Set your display color setting to blue

Its the 1198c I believe

DEFMP10 i'd really like an answer to this question, too. the thing that's keeping me from stepping up to this technology is that when i see it in use, it is generally much harder to distinguish fish than on the particular unit you're showing in this video.

Hey DEFMP10! Sorry for the delay in responding back to your message. Your Humminbird comes out of the box set up well for finding fish from the beginning but you will have to adjust it as conditions change to get that excellent imaging. Normally I run my sensitivity on 8-10,Contrast at 10, and sharpness on off. Those settings change as conditions do tho. I make sure that I am at a nice slow speed keeping the boat straight. Also I keep my chart speed (the data that moves across the screen) to match my boat speed. Doing that not only keeps what you see accurate as to what is to the left or right of you but keeps the image clear. Your side imaging beam is a very thin beam from front to back and takes very thin slices of the bottom and sides. With the beam being thin from front to back it makes it hard on the beam to draw a crystal clear image on the screen if it cant keep up from you scanning to fast. So keeping your boat speed and chart speed around 3-4 mph will help create a nice clear image on your graph.Also your settings have a lot to do with what type of bottom harness you are around. If im in a rocky or gravel bottom I have to tun my side imaging sensitivity down to around 8. The reason for this is the beam when turned up is to bright hitting off the rocks and gravel and and can make it difficult to achive good clarity.Objects such as rocks are displayed as hard objects so you will need to adjust for that so its not blinding your view of seeing fish hanging off those rocks and the bottom. The sharpness is something that I use often as well. This is great when you are trying to highlight fish if you might be unsure. Usually for catfish I put it on low if I want to highlight them a little better, but for smaller fish you can turn that up to medium or even high to make that streak really stand out. You will notice that the the higher you turn up the sharpness the more it will distort the image and make it grainy. Sharpness you will notice kind of takes away from the overall image and highlights just the fish. So if you are looking for that crystal clear image then turning the sharpness down to low or off with make things a lot clearer. Also if you are scanning for cover on the bottom that may hold fish feel free to stretch that imaging range out 150ft on both sides but if you are only scanning for fish depending on what size screen you have keep it around 50-100ft of total scan. The reason for this is when you are scanning 300 total feet (150ft on both sides of the boat) it makes it hard for you to notice a a good fish in a 300ft span. If you back that down to around 120 total feet of scan you will be able to see those fish a lot easier and they will appear much larger on the screen getting your attention.That is something that will make your image more clear as well. I hope this helps you guys and feel free to let me know if I can help anymore! Kaleb

JEFF HOBERG he said turn the the hardness

Timothy Mcvay That is the Humminbird 1198si Timothy!

Hey Bo be looking out for it! I am going to release that video with our new website coming out this month!