Well I got everything installed on my Helix 10 mega a couple weekends back and just got a chance to really check everything out. Bottom line it works like a charm. There were several areas in turners where i had marked reefs before and went out with the side imaging and was off by a fair amount.
In a lot of areas of say turner bay the results are basically just mud flats like you would expect but it's obvious when you run by a reef. What i found myself doing was setting the distance left and right to say 150 feet and i when i noticed something I would mark it and then make a closer run by at say 60-50 feet. I was even able to see both sides of the canal we are on with the sonar only showing 2feet of water.
here are a couple pictures from black lake. You can easily see the shaows of fish in the images. This was 4 feet of water and the fish were about 30 feet away from the boat.
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