Thanks! I'm sure I'll get it dialed in after a few trips.

Hi - Well, getting there. Here is a pic of a sunken road 15 ft to the roadbed. There is a square culvert running under it. Sorrounding bottem is 20-25 ft. I dropped a perch on the culvert and caught a nice 5 lb channel cat. I am impressed with the SI. Looking at the pic, the side to side angle is at least 90 deg !! dale

This is what worked for me:I am also a beginner but this is working for me. CD

- make sure your transducer is level when you are ideling. Very very important.

- I think my surface clarity is set low but would have to check.

- these things are super sensitive so I have my sens set at I think 15. Maybe even lower.

- set the distance to higher than the water depth. You can see in the pic mine was not as high as it should have been.

I have upgraded to the HDS 7. Last weekend i tried to delete all the existing trails. It worked but, now it leaves no trails and i wasn't able to figure out how to turn them back on. Thanks for any help.

I have zero experience with a seven and very little with an eight. sorry. CD

see link
http://www.bassfisher1.zoomshare.com/fil...ions_on_HDS.pdf

this is really a newby question:

Say you have a HDS-8 on the dash and a HDS-7 on the trolling motor with the display on the bow. Both on the eithernet. What displays what ? Can you get the 7 (front one) to display on the 8 on the dash and vis versa ?. Or both on a split screen. How does having both on a buss work.? CD

I'm sorry, I meant to say both connected to the NMEA 2000 buss not the eithernet buss. cd

Now I have really confused myself. it shows ethernet on page 33 and nmea2000 on page 34. So which is it and why please ? cd

Thanks, i sure am enjoying my new graph. Just a little bit different than the X-15 i have been using.

Hey jsplinter - looking at your post again it seems to me you have it set pretty good. I would look at the sensitivity and set it low and check that out. Also, water flow (bubbles etc) past the transducer can cause the surface to be messed up. Try setting your upper limit to say 5 ft and the bottom whereever you want it. It then will not show surfact to five feet, just five feet to the bottom. Just MTCW CD

I have looked in all my manuals and can not find the answer to thyis question:

How can I get the HDS-8 to display the coordinates on the bottom left corner of the screen when I am in SI or sonar mode only ?

CD

Never thought about trying the lower the upper limit. I'll have to try that. I'm still getting alot of clutter in the water column which I'd bet is coming from my boat. It has flotation pods on the rear which I think is creating this.

Bryan

Hi youall. Thought I would share this. This is what the culvert looked like before the lake was filled. Probably built by the same state or county guys. All the same. CD