Clutter??

[Jiggin4pigs]

Hey all, I'm still in the process of learning with my new helix 10 g3n mega + fishfinders and was wondering if someone could confirm what I'm seeing on my down imaging. Everywhere I went over the weekend looked like this right above thermocline seemed to be fish consistently there but not sure the type or if it's a settings issue. Any ideas on if I need to adjust settings or if I'm correct in thinking they are small fish? 

[TnRiver46]

Looks like fish above the thermocline to me 

[12poundbass]

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Looks like fish above the thermocline to me 

I concur doctor. 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

I concur doctor. 

We're going to need to operate immediately

[12poundbass]

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

We're going to need to operate immediately

10-4 I’ll scrub in! ?

[J Francho]

Those are fish.

[MickD]

You don't have some kind of setting that makes "hooks" out of responses, do you?  Like the fish icon that is available?

 

If you do , turn all those things off and look at, and learn to interpret, the raw signals.  

 

Those kinds of "tools" can make fish out of flotsam.  I can remember going nutso over the fish icons until I learned that anything that was not connected to the bottom must be a fish, according to the algorithm.  But the alorithms make mistakes.

[WRB]

The "clutter" below a very strong thermocline is colder water returning a dense signal.

If the "clutter" was above the thermocline looking like snow then you need to reduce your power setting. As is it looks like it should!

My suggestion is don't use icons instead learn to read and interpret your sonar.

If you see a similar screen shot without a thermocline the bottom secondary ecco can look like the cold water "clutter" so don't get confused you have a lot to learn.

Good luck

Tom

PS, impressive clear screen shot by the way .