Lowrance Side Imaging Not Working On One Side

Not all fish finders are capable of this.

Lowrance side imaging not working on one side.

Side imaging solutions no side scan or not working correctly make sure your depth sounder has the side imaging option. Medium chirp or 83khz specifically designed to give the widest coverage area 83 khz is ideal for watching a bait under the transducer in shallow water. Lowrance structure scan stopped working i have a lowrance setup in my boat. Same for both side image and down image.

Check out this breakdown active i. Sonar and down imaging both work. But they work a whole lot better if you make a few changes to your settings to get a clear picture. Low chirp or 50khz lower frequency means higher power for deep water fishing.

Last weekend the structure scan stopped working. Not sure i can explain this but if i take off auto depth and manually set it for 5. Lowrance product expert jacob scott walks through the basic settings set up and interpretation of active imaging sidescan. Here is a quick breakdown.

I have had it out on the water to test and everything works but the side imaging. A reasonable assumption here because this is a featureless flat then the true lateral distance to the object is 25 feet closer to the boat than the 30 foot side imaging range might suggest. Most anglers who fish from a boat have some sort of sonar so we ll start there and save the side scan and down scan tweaks for. High chirp or 200khz higher frequencies display a higher resolution image making it easy to discern fish from structure or.

If we assume that the water depth at the object matches the depth under the boat 16 6 ft. The side imaging range to the center of the object is 30 feet. Something i noticed today is that it actually seems to draw the screen in 2 of water. Check your operations manual to see if this is a feature of your depth sounder.

This allows you to set the range to well over 100 feet to the side and still make out important detail. Consider the object on the left side image. Structure page shows only a black screen with white line down the middle. Sonar is a massively cool technology and to me side scanning and down scanning are two even cooler technologies.