furuno sound pic
Submitted by Blacked Out on Mon, 2018-06-18 15:08
Hi Guys,
Recently upgraded to a FCV 587 with a P66 transducer. Found a spot of hillarys and wanting your thoughts on the ground. There seems to be a small rise of a 1-2 meters prior
to sounder showing whats circled in red, Is it reef/coral sturture ontop of a hard bottom?
I had the sounder in auto/fishing mode as I am still learning to read the bottom. Anyone got any tips on settings if I switch to manual mode.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
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Rob H
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It would catch my eye, but I
It would catch my eye, but I set mine up the other way, bottom lock on right and picture on left so you have a wider outlook.
Following is how to set up, get out of auto
http://www.fishtec.co.za/furuno_setup.pdf
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Blacked Out
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Yeah good point, I’ll switch
Yeah good point, I’ll switch mine around also,
thats for link on setting up in manual
scano
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Did you catch those baldies off it?
if so who cares what the tv says, let the fish results do the talking.
Good job
Blacked Out
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Produces baldies most of the
Produces baldies most of the time,
im just in the process of trying to find some new ground and learning what the sounder is telling me
JohnF
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Id say they are baldies just
Id say they are baldies just off the bottom :)
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Vinesh87
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Looks like what i was
Looks like what i was catching reds on in exmouth!
Riles
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Fish
I find that when mine shows decent corally lumps it normally comes up strong off the bottom, then generally weekens on the top. You seem to have a 50cm+ gap offf the bottom with little return then returns above that. I’d agree without johnF and say most likely fish.
Ktreloar
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Manual settings I use.gain 6
Manual settings I use.
gain 6 min
clutter erase 20%
color erase 16 %
tx power 100
tx rate MAX
turn off bottom discrimination
turn off acce fish.
scroll speed 1/1
shift right and zoom right hand side to show 15m of water in that depth.
Regarding confirming what the sounder is showing attack the mark from different angles, quite often bottom lock will show a gap if you don’t get the beam right over the lump.
But from freedivingexperience you don’t need a lot of structure to catch baldies quite often super low plate coral will hold them. Trick is working out where they regularly are at.