mr_tippy

This is what it used to do. Then yesterday I moved to a creek and as I stopped moving from idling the SI became very fuzzy and blurry. My down imaging and sonar off of that same transducer also became inaccurate for what it should’ve been reading (I was fishing a lake I’m very familiar with trying to understand more about using my units). If you idle though or troll at a higher speed it starts picking up good images again. I don’t know what I have going on but hope somebody on here could possibly give me some insight on what could be going wrong. I have a tournament in 3 weeks and really don’t want to fish it without these things working like they should.

Hey guys, I’m new to the fancy marine electronics world and am having some issues with my transdcuer. Yesterday while I was out on the water my side imaging started giving back really fuzzy images when the boat would stop moving. The down imaging and sonar also seemed to be fuzzy. Now, when I would start moving again (trolling or idling) the images would clear up. They’re brand new units as I just bought them this spring and had them installed. They’re Lowrance HDS Live 9s. The transducer mounted at the transom is entirely horizontal and doesn’t appear to have any noticeable defects on the outside of it. I was wondering if anybody had any input on what may be causing me issues? Or anything that I could try to do to clear it up? I don’t recall that I messed with any of the settings yesterday. I was idling into a creek and as soon as I came to a stop I noticed the images were fuzzy and nothing anywhere near clear. You couldn’t make out the bottom of the lake. It sounds a little silly but I ran some gas out of the boat yesterday and was wondering if maybe the boat is not sitting in the water deep enough now because of that? The tank is about 1/4 level (~10 gallons left) which is the lowest I’ve had it since I got the new units. I have yet to test that theory though. Thanks in advance!

Hey guys I’m heading down to Lake Guntersville the first week of April and just had some questions about the place. This will be my first time taking my boat outside of my comfort zone (my local lakes I’m familiar with) and I didn’t know if there was a certain way to run your boat through the place or if there were any hidden objects that I would want to avoid. We are staying in Guntersville for the weekend and will be launching the boat there as well. Any feedback is appreciated as always. Thanks in advance!

I’ll have to check these out. Thanks for the input guys!

Hey guys new member here with a question. Does anybody know of a good kit or anything that would allow me to customize my own spinnerbaits? I’ve been wanting to get more into customizing my own baits and I’m wanting to start with my spinnerbaits. I’d really like to customize my own skirts and stuff. I don’t want to manufacture my own stuff but I would like to mix and match my own colors but haven’t really been able to find anything on Google unless I’ve skipped over it. If anybody has any input it would be greatly appreciated!