Just purchased a Lowrance Elite 4X-Dsi for my craft. The image of the bottom is freaking awesome! It's darn near photographic! I saw several really great balls of crappie (I think) hanging around structure, as well as a lot of bait fish balls (I think) with larger items hanging around the circumference of the bait fish balls. The reason I say, "I think", is because this unit shows the bottom well, but I haven't used one before and what I take to be bait fish balls or individual fish is hard to tell since they don't actually look like fish, but rather larger or smaller objects. The bottom is cool. I found several christmas trees the DNR weighs down and drops (this is a state park lake).
Having never used one, I have to ask, where in relation to the transducer are the objects I'm looking at? Can I deduce, that what is in the center of the screen is the area directly below the transducer as the images move across the screen and the areas off to the side are the cone?
Dan
"It's a source of great pride, that when I google my name, I find book titles and not mug shots." Daniel C. Chamberlain
I wasn't fishing crappie. Too bad. I had to believe they were crappie, because they were surrounding an abrupt mount, like an underwater plateau and they were in a tight group and were a lot larger than the bait balls I saw. It appeared to be about 20 or so individual fish just milling about this mount. About 25 feet of water, with the fish at about 10 feet next to the point. I wished I'd have had a bucket of crappie minnows.
This thing is pretty cool. A tree looks just like a tree with light and shadow so you see an almost 3 dimensional scene.
"It's a source of great pride, that when I google my name, I find book titles and not mug shots." Daniel C. Chamberlain
I just installed a downscan unit on my boat also. I looked hard at the one you have but bought a humminbird. Main reason was it was a closeout price on a last years model. Mine is a combo unit with gps and duell scan fishfinder. Transducer location has proven to be very critical on this unit. So far thats about all ive been able to accomplish. The base map in the gps is about useless also. Im waiting on some localized chips at this point. I am anxious to check this thing out on some wrecks and reefs here asap.
Having never used one, I have to ask, where in relation to the transducer are the objects I'm looking at? Can I deduce, that what is in the center of the screen is the area directly below the transducer as the images move across the screen and the areas off to the side are the cone?
