Sonar for Dummies! Fish Finder BASICS Explained on the water with visual EXAMPLES!

[@kenmccarthyfishing]

Mike you truly put your heart into every video and given away 2 hours of information to incredible,thank you 👊

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

MY MAN!! Thanks brother!! The newer stuff is middle till the end👍👍. Some fun live sonar too😁👍🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@longwinterfallout]

Man your SFD 1-11 is just what I needed. Thanks Mike for taking the time to clearly explain sounder basics, all the best!+++

[@jde7861]

Keep em coming bud very good content man 😉👍🏻

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

Thank you!!! The newest stuff is from the middle to the end. I appreciate your support!!😁😁🙏❤️

[@garytingler3222]

Great video Mike. I'm learning a lot. Keep up the good work!!!!!

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@garytingler3222 🙏🙏😁👍. Thank you Gary😁😁❤️

[@LarryBinz]

These videos really helped me. I am new to sonar thank you can't wait to get out there.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@LarryBinz I’m glad you like it! Thank you!🙏🙏👍

[@billreddochoutdoors5968]

Oh yeah! I have learned so much from your sonar videos, love em.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

Thanks Bill!!! 😁😁😁🙏🙏. The last half of the video has all the newest stuff like Simrad 😁👍Active Target live sonar.

[@billreddochoutdoors5968]

@@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS I don’t get to spend a lot of time on the water looking at mine so it helps to be able to watch the sonar videos again and again with all the explanation that you share so when I do get to look at mine it makes sense. I go through a refresher course pretty often so I don’t forget 👊

[@brianbrown9102]

Great video.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

My man!!! Thanks brother!! The newest stuff is from the middle to the end. 🙏👍👍

[@Bear304inc1]

17 seconds and I’m already the second viewer!

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍😁😁😁🙏🙏🙏

[@DaveBrown-t7w]

Thank you for this answerd alot of questions i had

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@DaveBrown-t7w 🙏🙏🙏❤️👍😁

[@Bernie429]

Excellent video Mike! Was this the first and how often will you be doing new ones? I have Active Target on my Lowrance and was wondering if you’ll be covering that in one of your videos. Thanks for creating this series of videos!!

[@mikebaker1044]

Great videos

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@mikebaker1044 🙏🙏😁

[@DruDodson]

Thanks for these videos! I fish Lake Ouachita, Arkansas, for stripers. 50’ average depth and touches 200’ in spots. What fish finder and transducer would you recommend? Have an old Hummingbird depth finder now.

[@KM.130]

The title is not offensive at all! It’s exactly how I feel while trying to get my settings dialed in!

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

🙏🙏🙏🙏😁❤️

[@danchapman3292]

I've got two HDS9 Gen3 units with a TM150 chirp, and a 3d structure scan box/transducer. Question is, is using the structure overlay on sonar beneficial? I typically run 1 unit on med chirp, and 1 unit on 800khz down scan while fishing. The reason I ask if this is beneficial is because rarely, even after hours-and-hours of fishing, do I ever see fish stacked up. Even while catching stripers do I rarely ever see them on my chart. I'm now wondering if by having the structure overlay ON, am I messing something up to prevent me from seeing what's actually under the boat while looking at sonar?

[@matthutchinson3139]

When you see a hump or drop how do you exactly know where that is in relation to boat, if we are trolling .5 mph and it’s a 16 feet boat, transducer is mounted at the back of boat, when you see hump beginning to show up on right side of fish finder screen , how far behind the boat is that hump. Thanks for having these videos for fish finders

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

Hey Matt, great question. The easiest way to determine that is to touch the screen right as the hump appears on the screen. Set a waypoint on the hump where you touched it. Now that point will be on your chart and it will tell you how far away it is. If you don’t have touch screen you can use the arrow pad to put the cursor on the hump. This short video may also help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJDNZ6iIatGjfcksi=j27ehuvxlKOaA7n8. Thanks for your comment!!👍👍

[@JohnSmith-rs6mp]

Thanks Mike! Question, how can you run over 15mph and still DI? Is it the trans or brand? I have a hummingbird helex mega SI, DI. Do I need to change?? Thanks a lot love the videos

[@JRnanaBOOMER]

Hi Mike and everyone. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE I need to get some feedback from people who have even nominal experience, HOW COMPLICATED it would be for a novice using a Hummingbird sonar for down imaging and side imaging, then triangulates with Garmin's LiveScope transducer and black box to find a vehicle, the size of a Honda CRV, if they had the GPS position where it entered a lake with a surface of about 750 acres , a shoreline of approximately 11 miles, and has a max depth of 73 feet? THANK YOU 💖💖

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@JRnanaBOOMER Email me right now. [e-mail]

[@MrMarkx7]

Thanks Mike ​@@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS

[@daveengstrom9250]

You did not mention ALWAYS bringing a box of doughnuts when going fishing. I think maybe it is required by law?? 🙃 Great video. Thank you.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@daveengstrom9250 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. I can’t believe I forgot that! 🤨🤨🤨😁

[@bradmiller3557]

I have a Simrad in my Bennington Tri-toon. When using the chart, the contour lines are black and the background is dark blue…..difficult to read. How do I change the blue to grey or something light so the depth contours are more visible. Thanks, Brad

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@bradmiller3557 on your sonar page hit the menu in upper right corner then “advanced” then “palette’ 👍👍

[@bradmiller3557]

@@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS Thanks,Mike. I really appreciate your sonar instructional videos.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@bradmiller3557 😁🙏🙏🙏🙏👍

[@RealEstateOttawa]

We are wreck diving not fishing. What do you suggest are the best units, transducers for spotting wrecks generally in the 80-150 ft range

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

Down scan and side scan is the ticket. I wouldn’t even mess with reg 2D sonar if you don’t need to find fish. 👍👍

[@RealEstateOttawa]

@@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS Thx i guess i need to upgrade, running Lawrence HDS Gen2, side and down kinda suck on this older unit. Was understanding that down and side not so good in the 100ft ranges ?

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@RealEstateOttawa It will just run a lot slower at depths over 100ft because it has to wait longer for the pings to return. It will work fine though. 👍👍

[@RealEstateOttawa]

@@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS great. Good news wrecks are not moving like fish. I’ve seen the new HDS live but who’s got the better side scan for wrecks in this range.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@RealEstateOttawa Simrad by far. You want the Active Imaging Transducer 👍👍. Evo3 displays are the best, but the Go series is a decent more affordable version.

[@LBINICK]

U prefer yellow red palette over standard blue. Any specific reason?

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

Absolutely. I know it doesn’t sound smart to have yellow on white, but I swear it’s the best palette for clarity and contrast. I use some custom pallets too. If you go to my Simrad playlist and watch the last 2 or 3 short videos you can see the pallet I built. It’s basically the same colors as this one, but the white is replaced with medium blue Let me know what you think. Thanks brother!!❤️🙏👍

[@LBINICK]

I trust U. Gonna try this palette on my Garmin.

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@LBINICK let me know how you like it 👍👍

[@markrainone6831]

My new Garmin transducer has a pin hole on the bottom of it. Is that a problem?

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@@markrainone6831 I’m not very familiar with Garmin, but that could just be a temperature sensor. I wouldn’t be concerned as long as it’s a clean symmetric hole.

[@markrainone6831]

Thanks

[@MikeSmedleyOLDSCHOOLSTRIPERS]

@markrainone6831 👍