Lake had just turned over... Was very dirty and stained... Very red when normally clear.
And yes it is parallel when sitting still in the water however I was driving in a boat lane in a creek full of timber... I have a 18.8 boat so turning sharp turns in and out of wake taking those screen shots...
Why do you ask about transducer being straight?

In the image that you have to click on the link ......
is that a group of "fish" center right ???

Looks like fish to me.

Yeah you ran over a herd of fish. That image still doesn't look clear tho. How does that image compare to the images in demo mode.

That creek bed with rocks in it to the right side is holding fish for sure.

Agree with seeing if images are clear when you put the unit on simulator mode? I agree with scout grout, No setting on the unit will help with smudged images that is transducer/install issue. No expert but shouldn't be that hard to get good images. Do you have a pic of the transducer mount location from opposite side of the boat from where it is mounted? We can see it is clear and parallel to water line, Do you trim the motor up when idling and scanning?

^^^ This is why I asked about being straight. I had my lss2 a bit crooked (not parallel) and it had some blur kinda like yours.

Yours is pretty decent though, I'm not saying it's bad at all. Now there's some over on BBC that are horrible, it's weird.

Is the gen 1 the lss 1 and gen 2 lss 2?

Do you have the latest software on the unit? I get good images by adjusting it on auto contrast. Looks pretty good to me. I would look up cordinates of that spot on the screenshot, believe it saves the cordinate info, might even be able to pull up pic on unit and just mark a waypoint on those fish. Then go back to see if that school of fish is still there. I like to keep the range no more than 3 times the depth helps the detail. Got to remember the scale meaning if the range is on 60 ft it is a 120 foot scale so big things look small so rocks, old brushpiles look really small.

Lss2

I'll adjust it and make sure it wasn't level and I made adjustments to get to this...
It was bad when I first installed it myself...
This is all done by myself .... At first it was bad but with some efforts I'm pretty happy with results
And yes newest software updates today I'll upload more screenshots I took today

I was reluctant to load the new updates and I finally loaded 5.0 today. Gonna take me some time to relearn the menus. I know most like the new look; but I sure did like the older look more.


Do you feel like there were any differences in your sonar or SI after the update?

I took a level and marked the level where the bubble is while idling, then put boat on trailer and jacked it up to where it was same angle as it is while idling, then I got both of the transducers true level.

Level doesn't matter so much, straight matters a lot.

really? learn something new every day ill have to take a look at mine