Lowrance LIVE | Basic Sonar Interpretation | Webinar

Lowrance's Product Expert Jacob Scott walks through CHIRP, DownScan Imaging, and Active Imaging SideScan on a typical man made lake. He shows how to interpret what you're seeing on the display. With a few props, and some practical tips, your sonar readings will make much more sense.

0:00:00: Introduction
0:01:16 Sonar and Cone Anglers
0:02:34 Sonar Targets
0:03:39 What is CHIRP Sonar
0:05:21 How to Setup the Sonar Tagets
0:06:18 Where is my Transducer on the Screen
0:07:21 How to Interpret the Sonar Targets on the Screen
0:10:12 How to Interpret Fish on the Screen
0:13:33 Difference between hard and a soft bottom
0:17:29 What Causes the Fish Arches to happen
0:20:36 How to Change the Contrast and Sensitivity on the Screen
0:23:147 What can I see best when I am out on the water
0:24:16 How to Use the Structure Scan
0:27:49 Difference Between DownScan and SideScan on the Screen
0:28:54 How to Interpret SideScan Screen
0:35:28 What a Fish looks like on the SideScan Screen
0:37:07 SideScan Range
0:39:38 How to Zoom in SdieScan Screen
0:42:04 How to Change the Contrast for SideScan Screen
0:43:53 How to Interpret DownScan
0:46:43 How to Custom the DownScan Color Palette
0:49:58 Difference between 2D Sonar and DownScan
0:55:50 End

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[dlmsarge]

Ok, fantastic educational piece here!! Watching your screen as you ACTUALLY motor around is so useful! Better than watching 50 videos of guys running through "demo mode" sitting in a shop or garage. Your video really clarified so things and taught new a bunch of new stuff as well. Understanding what a thermocline looks like is amazingly helpful.

[Moose]

Very educational video. You explain stuff so detailed. Thanks jacob

[erehwon]

One of the best, if not the best, video out there on using these technologies. Thank you!

[tommyhoward]

Great job. Finally someone explained it at a speed I can keep up with. It got me excited about learning more with my unit.

[rickamatofishing]

Awesome job Jacob Scott, and crew! Thank you!

[mrspockal]

Very nice video. Your cone models were very effective at describing the sonar propogation. You should include this video with every Lorance unit. When I purchased my Elite Ti, I was overwhelmed with all the settings.

[nitro]

Fantastic video! Purchased a new 2022 bass boat summer 2021 with Lowrance Elite Fs7 at bow and console. Moved console Fs7 up to bow so I have 2 at bow & purchased FS9 for console. Been out a lot this summer learning the units. The side & down scan are new to me, so all your info was a great help. They are great units. Also have the active target transducer, it is awesome! Thanks again for the very informative & helpful video.

[GmanfromTexas]

Finally a tutorial on Lowrance that really teaches elementary and precise. Thanks!!!!

[jackhartsell]

This is a great explanation of all three ways to see in the water. Thanks.

[HookedOnAngling]

Very informative video. Thank you for taking the time.

[larrywilkinson]

Awesome visual aids. They help no matter what your level of expertise.

[jamesb.hallmd]

Jacob, you are the MAN. Can I fish with you sometime? You can make money just doing this with individual anglers for $300-500, basically a chartered electronics trip. Keep the videos coming!!

[derekroper]

This is exactly what I needed. Excellent video with great information! I was seriously looking for someone to teach me this! Thank you!

[braxtondeets]

The dark area that is in the middle of the screen is not the water column and it doesn’t make any sense to demonstrate what the dark area in the middle of the screen is by folding a piece of paper or holding the binding of a book or magazine or pamphlet upside down. A transducer scans the same with any digital fish finder, wether it be side scan, down imagining, side imaging, or any other comparable device that scans anything. It scans where it is pointing. In this video he mentions the cone shape of down scan, that is the way that particular transducer is made and programmed to function, very good demonstration with the cone, probably very accurate. Side scan is obviously newer technology and I agree that it’s a thinner more precise use of sonar technology with similar concepts of down scan (or traditional digital fish finder transducers). Again, a very informative accurate use of the visual aid. Side scan works the same as down scan (or any other scanning device). It doesn’t hit the ground and then scan, the image starts from the transducer and scans immediately within its range AND everything in between the transducer and the ground, it doesn’t scan water and portray that water column as an image to the angler, the transducer is already underwater. These people act like it’s shooting a high frequency laser beam up to a satellite orbiting mars and then back down through the atmosphere through the water and down to the bottom of the lake. It’s doesn’t. It’s a 4000 dollar piece of equipment with most of the tech in the transducer itself. It needs to be tuned to even out the image so the angler can clearly see in every direction. Your welcome and thank you.

With such a wide range that SIDE (starboard AND port side) scan produces (300ft PER SIDE) and a strong use of existing technology it’s very logical to think that the technology that is used in side scan may be too strong directly below and is unable to relay accurate clear images of what it is scanning. It seems that the technology needs to be tuned, like contrast on a screen only further into the technology of it. It needs to come from the programmers for Lowrance. Give more power to the transducer to scan further to the sides of the boat and less power to the (dark area) directly under the boat. Lowrance, kick this technology into high gear and reach out 300ft forward scan technology. You’ll have 180 degree view out to 300ft or longer in the front and both sides from the front of the boat. Top anglers will be able to utilize this transducer capable technology mounted from the bow of the boat and the stern, giving competitive fisherman 300+ degrees of the top sonar Lowrance has to offer. It’s all DSI.

[alexinjt]

At 27 minutes...just blew my mind, thanks

[wayneking]

Jacob, how about a video ALL about the Hook2 4x simple model. The simplest one you'll have. A video that actually shows how to use it, the different displays, what they mean and how to get to them. In other words, all you can and need to know on how to operate the Hook2 4x, from turning it on, all the way through all screens and functions, to how to turn it off.

[rm]

What I took from this is to keep the settings on auto and let the system do what it’s designed to do. Thanks heaps

[sacju]

Great video! Just traded in my Hook2 for the Ti2 so looking forwarding to seeing what it can do.

[BillCulver]

Thank you so much for this video. I have a Suntracker Bass Buggy 18-DLX on order with a Lowrance HDS-9 Live with AI 3-1 transducer. This right here is what I needed to help me understand what I will be seeing on the screen.

Kind Regards,
William R. Culver Jr.

[jamesrospopo]

Very good video. Explains things well.