Yankee Troller

Here are the results from the 1st of 4 events we'll be holding at the Oak this season to crown "The King of the Oak" KOTO2 - July 18th KOTO3 - August 15th KOTO4 - September 6th

If it works it'll be discontinued! It's how this industry is.

That's great to hear! These truly are mini computers. No more set it and forget it. These units will show you everything! You just need to tweak it for what you're looking for.

I'm pretty sure that setting is under the 'Sonar' tab on the menu. If you don't see it then you will have to update your software. It's very easy. Register your product on Humminbirds Website: http://www.humminbird.com/Support/MyHumminbird/ Once registered you will find the update for your product. Download it to an SD card with 4GB of space or more, and a minimum Class 6 or higher. Plug it into your bird and it'll ask you 2 questions. Follow them and it will update all on its own.

95% of the time our probe is on the middle rigger and is the highest rigger in the spread. Once the thermocline sets up the middle rigger goes to 60* and everything else goes below that.

Water density will force you to tweak settings. It's a pain in the Spring with all the breaks, but these are mini computers now. They can do so much, but you need to understand what you're seeing, and know how to tweak it.

To be honest when Billy V and I started running birds 8+yrs ago thre was a software glitch and the engineers told us to run it in Salt Deep to get around it. I understand that's been fixed through an update, which most of you should already have, so that setting isn't as important. BTW....Speaking about software glitches. There is a setting introduced in the newer software updates called "Jigging Mode." This was put in place to fix a pixilation glitch. Put Jigging Mode on if you are seeing a very pixillated screen in 2D.

Yes. In the title 8xx means all 800 series units.

I've had a lot of questions lately regarding the screen shots and detail on our Humminbird units. I've used a lot of the manufacturers out there, and I have to say I'll put our Humminbirds up against ANY of them! Here the settings we use: Settings Switchfire - We run Max Mode when over 20'. Here's an explanation of what Switchfire is - Clear Mode looks at the most intense part of the sonar beam where as Max Mode is unfiltered data so it will incorporate side lobes. Max mode does adjust power output for depth. Clear mode can adjust output power to match the depth. Plus Clear mode also provides Time Variable Gain so it understands the loss of sonar signal strength over depth and in Clear mode it can calculate this diminishing return and adjusts the data to display the return as the same size on the screen no matter the depth. so a 5 pound fish will be displayed the same size at 5' as at 50' or 100' or 1000' so you can better determine and compare the sizes, Clear mode is a very precision sonar system where Max mode displays all the data as it naturally occurs. Water Type - Salt Deep Transducer Type - Dual Beam (stock ducer is 83/200 if it's an Airmar it'll be a 50/200) Beam Select - 83/200 or 50/200 depending on your ducer 83 or 50 Sensitivity - 0 to -5 Surface Clutter - 0 to 3 Noise Filter - We would run ours from Medium to High 1 depending on the day. You want to use the lowest setting possible Sensitivity - Turn it up until you start to see a little "snow" on the screen, and then back it down 1. Scroll speed - We usually run ours at max speed, but I'm told for the best detail you want to match your speed. If you;re trolling 3mph then set it to a speed of 3. Again, we DON't do this. Just something I've seen in some videos lately. Jigging Mode - ON if you are seeing a pixilated screen. Notes Overlaying your 83 and your 200 beams is nice, but sometimes we see a little better picture when we split the screen and use one side for our 83 (in our case its a 50khz beam) and the other for the 200. If you can see your cannon balls then you will mark fish. I've had questions regarding this recently. There isn't much of a screen outside of 200' of water on the South shore. If you're seeing your cannon balls don't panic if you're not seeing fish. If you want a warm fuzzy feeling go into 125' or less and look at as many fish and bait pods as you want. You should be able to see screens like this (these are from the last few weeks): Lastly, check out some videos on how 2D sonar works if you want to better understand what you're seeing.

I'll get a separate post up with settings we use so it's not buried in this post and people can search it.

I can help you with any Bird questions. If you choose the Bird I'll get you settings to use to get you a good picture. Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app