lowrance elite 5?

[bee]

I have since learned a lot more about my machine. For 1 thing I do not use the flasher mode. I use all manual settings. I tune out the top 4 feet. It is still not good in deep water. Say 30 ft or more. Even with zoom it does not pick up signals good. I have just come to believe that I will use another flasher when in deep 30-50 ft water. Getting the xducer down to the bottom of the ice also was an issue.

[evobassfish]

I have since learned a lot more about my machine. For 1 thing I do not use the flasher mode. I use all manual settings. I tune out the top 4 feet. It is still not good in deep water. Say 30 ft or more. Even with zoom it does not pick up signals good. I have just come to believe that I will use another flasher when in deep 30-50 ft water. Getting the xducer down to the bottom of the ice also was an issue.

Bee, did you turn the surface clarity setting off completely? Also noise rejection if not needed

[boder]

Thanks Boder.
Why would you say you aren't completely sold on it yet?  Like I mentioned, it's my first nice sonar unit, so don't have anything to compare it with.  I've used friends' Vexilars and have basic fish finders for my boat.  I was thinking the screen clutter would be a lot less than is has been so far.  I've played with all of the aforementioned settings.  I did find that zooming to the bottom of the water column removed the surface clutter, but doesn't zooming on the bottom defeat the purpose of being able to see the entire water column some times?

Just still trying to figure out how to get her to run optimally. She is a little more temperamental then my x67c.

[bee]

Bee, did you turn the surface clarity setting off completely? Also noise rejection if not needed

Clarity is off rejection is Med.

[walkndude]

I get bad results using the noise rejection while ice fishing, it does nothing for interference from other units and makes it difficult to see smaller jigs at times even with high sensitivity settings. For those having problems with top clutter, did you set the units transducer to pti-wsu/pti-wbl? I had thought it would just disable the temp sender but my clutter went from 4-5ft to 2-3.

Using an elite 4x hdi but that shouldn't matter much.

[fishing4u2]

Bee, i don't have reason to use it, but isn't there also a Deep Water mode?  Maybe give that a go?

[evobassfish]

Use shallow water mode when fishing less than 100 ft. Leave surface clarity to off and set upper limit to 3ft so you dont see the surface clutter.

[boder]

Use shallow water mode when fishing less than 100 ft. Leave surface clarity to off and set upper limit to 3ft so you dont see the surface clutter.

So are u saying to use shallow water mode instead of ice mode?

[evobassfish]

So are u saying to use shallow water mode instead of ice mode?

They are two different settings. The ice view mode is in the color view setting and shallow water mode is in the sonar options setting I believe.

[Hunt n Fish]

There is an Ice View in the color settings AND an Ice Mode in the sonar options.  Ice View changes the color and Ice Mode changes some of the presets.  Also, not sure if you guys are using the float and ducer support cable but if you are and are having issues picking up small jigs deeper down ensure that the ducer is handing PERFECTLY level.  I was having some problems with this and noticed that the ducer was cocked just slightly because of the way I had the cables ran.  I adjusted it and it helped me pick up my jig.

[boder]

Had my chirp out tonight and it worked much better then my first outing. I was only in 10 fow this time. Used shallow water setting and black fish reveal. Had a little surface clutter but cleared it up with surface clarity in low. Used custom depth range as well. Only gripe about my unit tonight is that I wished the screen would scroll a little faster. Ping was set at fastest and frequency was high chirp. Scroll speed does not seem as fast as my x67c. Gonna try it out on some deep water lake trout fishing later this week.

[evobassfish]

Had my chirp out tonight and it worked much better then my first outing. I was only in 10 fow this time. Used shallow water setting and black fish reveal. Had a little surface clutter but cleared it up with surface clarity in low. Used custom depth range as well. Only gripe about my unit tonight is that I wished the screen would scroll a little faster. Ping was set at fastest and frequency was high chirp. Scroll speed does not seem as fast as my x67c. Gonna try it out on some deep water lake trout fishing later this week.

If all the lowrance owners can give lowrance an email about adding an adjustable scroll rate setting in a future update? Only the HDS models has this setting.

[boder]

My thoughts as well. I would think (and hope) that they would be able to just do an update and have that problem taken care of.