Teasing or Baiting your FF for fine tuning.

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I saw on YouTube, this being done.

The guy dribbled a small Jig 30' or so below the FF. Raising and lowering while he adjusted the Sensitivity.
Eventually he got the FF to see the Jig.
His was a Color FF so the Jig turned out to be a little Arc, with a little red Dot where the Head of the Jig was.

He says you'll be able to spot fish in this manner.
Any of you guys actually tried that?
Did it work?
Do you have another thought on the process?
 
Sounds a lot like over thinking the problem. I've used a number of different units and never had trouble seeing fish and often times would see my bait when, for whatever reason, my line came within the viewing cone. I always adjusted based on highest sensitivity that did not produce a "noise" return. The real key to using a FF is knowing what you're looking at. It's pretty easy with todays units to quickly adjust based on the water you are fishing. We've watched many a fish work towards a bait. We fish knowing the average depth most fish are showing up and keeping our baits at the top of that average or slightly higher, unless working fish on the bottom when we put the bait right there with them.
 
Thankeee suh.
I'll not be able to do any 'research' till this heat wave goes on over to the East Coast.
 
So that's what a FF is. I love personal abbreviations.
 
Ha ha, took me a minute also! I have little luck with FF's Have no idea where the fish go when the water gets warm...
 
FF, Fish Finder. I apologize! No more coded information

Little tiny Sonar units with some trick&fancy programming inside.

If the FF sees an object that stays in one place for several cycles of Ping&Receive Ping, it calls that an Object.
Then it further classifies the object as Suspended or Anchored.
Then some of the really good ones see the Bladder in the fish or the Bone in the fishes head.
If it passes all the tests that info causes some program 'go-to's' or 'Jump to this address' and a Fish Icon appears on the screen.

That fish is always going from right to left as time marches on.
If the Fish suddenly darts off, you might see blips, but your Fish Icon is still slowly, grudgingly, moving off to the left.

Another thing you may not know about is "Rabbit Tracks". Normally a phrase used in Radar, it's interference or spurious signals from some other guy's FF, your Prop, etc. Electric motor's dirty operations broadcast all kinds of frequencies.

I think that's enough expounding for one day!:)
 
And the first thing you want to do is turn the fish id feature off so it DOESN'T display the fish symbol/icon, and learn to read/interpret the arches, streaks, bait pods etc that the graph will show you if you give it a chance to work properly :) Particularly if you are trolling.

Tim
 
That's for sure and for certain! Know what you are looking at.
 
Tim's right. Learning to see what the arches are saying is tough in waters with lot's of submerged Junk.

I got a Crow with my Cuda right now.
In the sun, or at night with a flashlight, I can't see the program steps to get the back light on.
You'd think that would be the first step! I guess I'll have to make up a cheat sheet for my tackle box.
 
i had someone on my boat see some fish on the ff and ask how it could know the weight of each fish. i didn't have the heart to tell him he was looking at depth numbers in feet so i told him it measured the amount of space displaced by each fish.
 
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