Help reading side imaging
Hi all, new to the BU and really excited I stumbled across this place. I have a quick question that has been driving me crazy. I finally upgraded to side imaging and I feel like I had a good grasp on how to interpret the bright/hard returns and shadows offshore but I'm lost on interpreting anything along shorelines. If I'm set at 60ft out the side for example but only 20ft from the shoreline, why/what/how am I able to see any returns past 20ft? I thought that represented a decline or grass?
I'm confused about this question, if the shoreline is 20ft away, you can only see to the shoreline, you can only see what's in the water. Can you provide more information?
i dont like side view to hard to read
i dont like side view to hard to read
Imagine you're in a helicopter at night flying above the ground and shining a fixed-position flashlight down diagonally outward from both sides of the the back of the helicopter. That's basically what you're seeing. Things that catch the light are brighter and things that are dark are shaded. This was hard for me to grasp at first. I still have a hard time judging where the fish are, in relation to the bottom, and sometimes determining that things are fish, but I'm usually more concerned with finding and waypoint-marking underwater cover than individual fish. Sooner or later brush will have fish on it. Here are some good videos for getting better with side imaging:
https://bassu.tv/bass-fishing-video/humminbird-side-imaging-lakemaster-maps-kevin-vandam
https://bassu.tv/bass-fishing-video/side-imaging-down-imaging-mega-360-gluszek
https://bassu.tv/bass-fishing-video/electronics-master-class-bryan-thrift
The new 3-D contour maps are a big deal !!
