HDS settings

[jeffro99]

Hey guys just picked up a new hds7 gen 2.

running the 50/200 ducer. looking for some settings you guys run out there?

 

[TyeeTanic]

- Auto Sensitivity

- Range = Auto

- Frequency = 200 kHz

- Chart speed = 2x

- Fishing mode = General

- Ping Speed = 15

- Noise reduction = low

- Surface clarity = off

- Palette = 13

- Transducer: make sure you go to Installation and under sonar settings, select the correct transducer.

- Network: make sure you go to Data Source under sonar use the temp from the Lowrance unit, not Global (via network).

[K Gonefishin]

Run 50 if fishing over 100 ft

[Sk8man]

And probably if you want to mark your downriggers better on the screen. (50 ='s wider cone angle)

[jeffro99]

right on i will have to try those: fishing mode general eh?

i read some guys say run shallow water up to about 150 fow then go to deep water?

 

also when u trun up your chart speed does the display get blotchy?

[K Gonefishin]

Deep water mode performs better with a 200 that I can tell you for sure. I'm not sure what chart speed I have mine at but my ping speed is jacked way up, faster returns. 

[King Slammin]

I use 83khz and never had a good picture using 200khz. I should try split screen sometime to compare. I also run max ping speed and 4x scroll. Slow trolling is the setting I use and -1 sensitivity. Noise rejection and surface clarity both med

[TyeeTanic]

My settings came directly from a Lowrance guru (he sells them for a living, and has regular seminars at fishing clubs teaching people how to use their sonars - see video of him on youtube link below - Jocelyn Leung). Just about everyone in my marina is going to these settings.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCaCgLkMFE

Several parts to the video due to length of presentation - this guy knows his stuff,

 

I have an 83/200 ducer. 200 has better penetration due to the narrower cone angle. I can't say how the 50 Hz works. You can always split screen the sonar. However, I find you do lose clarity when the ducer is switching between the two frequencies to display both.

 

I can pick up my canon balls on 83 Hz,  I use a 12 lb ball, and have around 50 or 60 ft of blowback.

 

The settings are a balance of picking up detail, but rejecting noise.  So the highest sensitivies and ping speeds are not always recommended.

 

General use is recommended for depths above 100 ft.  Below 100 ft, Joc recommends shallow.

[King Slammin]

At 200 kHz, I don't even mark my riggers. Even the probe rigger. With 83 kHz I mark them down to 110' with the probe and 14 lb torpedoes. I am going to try split screen with the 200 kHz to compare sometime if theres room on the screen. This is just my experience.

[jeffro99]

wow i would like to attend one of Joc's seminars. even better have him set up my unit

[K Gonefishin]

.........posted something someone already did

Edited August 19, 2013 by K Gonefishin