How to use Down Imaging to Find Crappie

and again the biggest difference between your 2d traditional sonar and your down imaging or your your clear view down view which is what garmin calls it is the separation there's a ton of fish down here ton of fish down there well good morning ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another video today we're going to be talking about how to use your down imaging downscan or clear view depending on what model of the unit you have they call it different things how you use down imaging to find these crappies right now we're in mid-july these crappies are pretty much stacked up on the deeper wheat edges or on this lake if you got brush piles this lake does have them so they'll be stacked up on those deeper brush piles and like 15 to 20 feet of water so today i'm going to walk you through how i use down imaging sonar and a few tips and tricks that might help you find some more crappie all right so the first thing you want to do with your down imaging and this is what i talked about in the 2d traditional sonar video is if you set your range i like to set it mine to 30 feet uh if you're fishing oh well we're drifting over a school of fish right now if you're fishing shallower than 30 feet you can just set it on auto but there is a pile of fish and this is a brush pile let's screenshot that for you so you can see what that looks like and a clear clear screen there's a little bit of glare i do apologize for that but i'll screenshot it and highlight what i think is important so the first thing is to set the range two adjustments i've i like to make on my contrast i tend to put my contrast a little bit higher because i'm fishing for panfish had it set at 59 becomes standard at this default 50 but i like to put it a little bit higher help separate the uh the fish from brush piles so the next thing i would like to do is adjust the brightness um you can see if we bring the brightness down it does help a little bit with definition in shadows but since we uh we're going after panfish again i leave them leave that brightness as high as possible kind of pick out those smaller fish on brush piles or weed edges so another thing that i i would highly recommend get used to one shade of pallet so i go with the orange crawfish because this is very similar to the humminbird units this is kind of that gold gold it's more of a gold color and then the brighter gold is a harder return that softer gold is a is a like a soft bottom as you can see because we're moving very very slowly all these images are kind of stretched out and elongated now that we're moving really fast you can see these weeds in a very clear definition of them i'm going to go back out to where that brush pile was people always ask you know what is my sonar or my transducer showing on this screen so your transducer is right here on the top right corner it's going to send a signal down and ping back up everything directly below the right side here is straight onto the boat anything that starts moving left from right to left that's historical data so as you're as i'm idling here anything that shows up right down below the right side of the screen here that's just right underneath the boat and then this is all the lake bottom that have already gone over okay a lot of people have questions about that there's a school of bait fish right there oh it's oh there's there's a brush pile now the main key you use down imaging versus 2d is because it allows you for some separation i'm gonna screenshot this here you can actually see the individual logs and in the brush pile versus there's another one let's let's go to uh i'm gonna show you this real quick so here's here's what your 2d sonar would look like on the same setup see how it's all kind of blurred in with red now you can definitely tell something's there but when we go to our down imaging screen you can see the individual fish and those are a ton of crappie stacked up on that brush pile i'm going to screenshot that again for you and that is the main key why you use down imaging sonar versus 2d sonar so if you have a unit that has both down imaging and 2d you can use them side by side kind of like i have them here now this unit has side imaging so i also have side imaging hooked up but you could have a screen like this and you can see there's definitely something down there and then you can definitely tell the high definition of these are fish those are the brush pile and uh yeah there's definitely a ton of fish down there now as far as let's say sonar setup goes my scroll speed i set it five i know i did a kind of a video on the humminbird about that a while back i usually set this one or two miles faster than what i troll that's just kind of standard i've seen a lot of websites um as far as tvg this is something that i know a lot of live scopers deal with i got i just got it set at medium and interference i got set at low right now if if you get a lot of feedback you can change those to set the interference for higher for like a medium or high to kind of clear up your screen but i don't have that it's a pretty clear picture right now so let's go up front on that unit and i'll show you down imaging on underneath the trolling motor and how we're going to fish them set up with our down imaging screen got my got my range set to about 20 feet here and uh all these blips really you can tell what the fish are so these are all fish stacked up above this brush pile and again i'm anchored up on this brush pile so a lot of it's going to look elongated because what that that transducer is doing it's sending that signal down from the top right corner of your screen here and it's pinging back and the longer you stay over the top of like a log or a brush pile it's going to look elongated like that see how it's kind of these wavy lines normally if you were trolling it'd look like a straight line and then drop off real quick because these brush piles again are only four or five maybe six feet long at the at the longest but these are fish stacked up above it now unlike your 2d sonar this one doesn't have a amplitude meter or a scope for you humminbird guys it's called rts real time sonar you're down imaging inside ensuing side imaging doesn't have that a little scope on the side of it there's one there's a ton of fish down here a ton of fish down there just watched a guy catch a 40-inch muskie out in front of me too feeding on all these crappie there's a bunch of white bass blowing up behind me too it's very tempting to throw on top water but let's focus on these crappie for now and again the biggest difference between your 2d traditional sonar and your down imaging or your your clear view down view which is what garmin calls it is the separation now normally you can kind of see that there's breaks in between the logs that are in this brush pile there's little black spaces normally on your 2d sonar you won't be able to see that it would just look like a hard return like normally i use that maroon color so that would just look like a dark red all the way through i won't be able to tell the the separation also you can see fish just above the brush pile let's point them out here there's fish just above the brush file now normally on my 2d traditional sonar i would not be able to see those fish at all and there's the edge of the brush pile transducer just went over it now we're going to drift backwards and here comes again the start of it so i'm basically right on the corner of that brush pile there he is hit it on the drop because he choked it [Music] [Music] now just like the 2d traditional sonar you can actually change your color scheme if you go to sonar setup i'm sorry yeah sonar setup advanced right there color scheme i like this orange crawfish pattern it it's very similar to the humminbird that i used to use i know some guys like the the blue pattern some sort of this pattern or even even the green what whatever helps you uh i guess see the fish better for me it's this is orange crawfish pattern i really like [Music] it so there's one all right that's gonna end it for me there's there's too much boat traffic out here tonight uh i got enough i think in the live well here so we're gonna let this guy go see you buddy he shot out of there real quick well that's going to wrap it up for me tonight appreciate you watching as always hopefully some of these tips with down imaging helps it does help into when it's a lot calmer to be able to stack right up over these a brush pile or a rock or anything these crop you're holding to so again six and a half foot acc crappie sticks a rod casting rod 1000 size pc fun viper x reel this is six pound mono one with the eighth ounce jig and then i went with the bonehead tackle assortment today which by the way you can pick up at crappiecove.com there you go i'll link everything below yeah if you got any comments or questions post them in the comment section below and it's where i get my video as i video ideas so if you have a question about down imaging 2d side imaging gps whatever post in the comments section because that's where i get my video ideas also you can message me on either facebook or instagram i do reply as fast as i can with those so i'm gonna get off the water here go fry these up you have a good night see ya [Music]

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Id: bWrrY-9e34A

Length: 11min 11sec (671 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 14 2021