Lowrance HDS 7

[starweld20]

Does anyone here have experience with the lowrance HDS 7 units. I'm struggling to fine tune it so that I can effectively mark fish. I've tried a few YouTube videos but still can't seem to find a concrete pattern of marking actual fish.

 

 

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[Andre wallyandre]

Witch transducer are you using?

How deep is you're fishng?

What are you'are actual settings?

[Dublin Up]

The first thing, go into your sonar setting and select the correct transducer that you're using, there should be a silver tag on the cable with the model number, if you don't have it selected right you're only getting about half the power. Select the correct transducer and click SAVE.

Then I'm sonar setting if fishing under 50' of water select shallow water, if deeper then keep it in general.

With an 83/200 or 50/200, set to 200 if fishing shallow or when running, 83 or 50 in deeper water

You can play around with ping and dial it in while your out there, I think 18 is where I had mine. But once it's tuned right you should be about to get great returns


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[CHAMP99B]

Get on walleye 101. Com ,Lance Valentine will send you a CD on how to fine tune your set...You will be impressed by what you see after words...He's the top notch guy on lowrance products...

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[starweld20]

Thanks guys. I fish anywhere from 6ft deep in the rivers locally to 400+ deep on Lake 0 in good weather. I will have to check the transducer to make certain but I have more than one as well. I also have the down scan and side scan options. What your saying makes sense tho. I never took it off shallow water while fishing lake o last year or Lake Erie for that matter. This is my first Lake trolling boat and my first high end sonar setup. So I'm dealing with the growing pains I guess you could say. Thank you all for your input. I will hopefully be making my first trip to lake o in the next couple weeks. I will be sure to apply some of this


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[Dublin Up]

I've fished the past 4 years with the hds unit on both lakes and it took a bit to get them fine tuned, but it's switch setting for each lake, if you need any information don't hesitate to ask,

Carl


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[starweld20]

Thanks carl. I'll be sure to do so once I get everything up and running again in the next few weeks.


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