Hey MPD, this is pot! When we gonna do it again?

Better take it Colorado or else not get caught. :D

HA! well played!

When ever you would like. I feel a cough coming on so may have to call in sick at work. You know, the kind that a fishing trip will cure. Only problem is, I won't be able to be sick between Mar. 11-22, I have a training class I can't miss. Just let me know and I'm there. How's the wife and little one doing?

They just got back from their five week visit in Germany. They`ll have jet lag for a few days, then they` ll be back to normal.
This Thursday loks like a good day, call it Thursday or FRIDAY.

Hey Travis, can you (or any body else for that matter) elaborate on this, I'm fairly new to fishing with electronics and this is something I never heard of, "the sonar blind spot" I just bought a Hummingbird 798 with side imaging and I' still trying to figure out some or a lot of it's features, it would be nice to be able to use it at it's full capacity, these units are pretty neat tool but can become a distraction.
Merv, that is one cool toy!!! maybe one day, I also have a 6 year old young'n that some times gets bored, this would be a good "show" to entretain her!!

This was my response to it on a previous thread:

They could have been laying on the bottom in the "dead zone" of the fishfinder.

"DEAD ZONE - Dead Zone is the area within the transducers cone of sound that is blind to you. The wider the beam angle the greater the possible dead zone. The sonar will mark bottom as the nearest distance it sees. If you are fishing over a slope it may see the high side of the slope, at the edge of the cone, and mark that as bottom. The fish that are hanging on the bottom in the center of the cone will be invisible to you because they are actually within the bottom signal on your depth finder. A narrower beam angle will reduce this effect."

This may not be the best example but there's good info about it on the web. You can take a jig big enough to show up on your depthfinder and drop it all the way down by the transducer. Before it hits bottom on your graph it will disappear. How much further until you hit actual bottom is how big your blind spot is.

Thanks for the reply Sir!!, my unit has the dual beam, narrow and wide at the same time, but like I said I'm still trying to figure out a lot of the things it can do, I will try the jig thing next time out to compare real bottom depth with what the unit is showing on the display, I have a line counter reel that may aid me in the process, thanks again!!