Advice Needed: Fish Finder Settings

[Jonathan D Saunders]

Hey Guys and Gals,

I purchased a Hummingbird 570 DI and am pretty impressed but I feel like maybe my settings could be tweaked to gain some better results.
If someone has something similar and understands all of the settings, could you take a look at my settings and let me know if there is somewhere I could do something better?

1st menu:

Sensitivity: 10 out of 1-20
Lower Range: Auto
Chart Speed: 8
Bottom View: 
          Structure ID <---set here

          White Line

          Bottom Black

          Inverse

2nd menu (sonar)

Beam Select: 455khz (highest setting)
Imaging Frequency: 800khz

Structure Clutter: 5 out of 1-10
Switch Fire: Max Mode
Fish ID +: On
Fish ID Sensitivity: 8 out of 1-10
RTS Window: Wide
Zoom Width: Wide

I understand depth has a lot to do with the settings, so just as an FYI, the deepest I have fished is 32' with it and will probably never see 50'. Always freshwater, always Bass. 


Thanks for all the help.

[Wayne P.]

Sensitivity of 10 is fine

 

Chart speed -guess how fast you are going and set the scroll speed to close to that. It is to get the scanning of the imaging pulse to be recorded as the pulse passes over stuff. Too fast and the images are stretched, too slow and the images are compressed or non-existant-that will take practice

For 2D only, use the 10 setting to get the fastest updates on the right side of the view--vertical jigging or dropshotting are a couple examples of wanting the fastest updates..

 

Bottom View--White Line

 

 

Beam select--200 kHz

 

Imaging 455 kHz gives the most coverage, 800 give sharper images but less bottom coverage.

 

Swithfire--Clear unless you need to see vertical presentations. Max is manual Sensitivity settings only. Clear is less manual setting and some filtering to show fish and features better wihout clutter.

 

FIsh ID-- 5 is good

 

RTS window--Off unless you want the vertical flasher feature. If you don't know what that is, turn if off.

 

Zoom width, no preference since I don't use that view--it makes the returns too blocky for me.

[aceman387]

I had similar questions.Thanks for being on this site wayne,your fish finder posts are always so helpful to people like me and others who find all these settings confusing,your a big help.

[Comfortably Numb]

You will want to turn your fish ID OFF

[Jonathan D Saunders]

You will want to turn your fish ID OFF

Why?

Don't mean that rudely... unfortunately forums do not show facial expressions nor let you hear voice inflection. 

I really want to know...I do know it never seems to go off.

[slonezp]

The fish ID also ID's false returns and interference as fish and either gives false hope, or is quite annoying if it is constantly beeping

[Jonathan D Saunders]

The fish ID also ID's false returns and interference as fish and either gives false hope, or is quite annoying if it is constantly beeping

That makes complete sense...stop doing that :D