Hummingbird Wide 100

[lowe]

Friend of mine supplied me with one of these units at no cost. He upgraded the ones on his boat and gave me his old one. I hooked it up, but haven't had a chance to hit the water since the installation. Just wondering if these were good FF in their day? Right now, the unit, when powered up will scroll a flat black line across the top of the screen and not record any depth, which is understandable because it is setting in my back yard when own. If I can get the wife to let me off work when I am not at my paying job, I may be able to find out if it is working by putting the boat in water. LOL

 

[russ010]

I've never personally used it. I've been in the market for a FF, and finally found a good deal on ebay. As for the Wide 100 - I've read pretty good reviews of it online and was considering buying one before I found the 727.

Anyways, it will probably work good for you. I've got a Humminbird Piranha Max 15 that I bought 4 years ago. It's a cheap unit, but it shows bottom definition, depth and temperature pretty acurately (I checked it against a guy with a side imaging unit in the water last year.

As far as finding fish - well I've never had very good success with that area because I still haven't figured out all the settings and how to make it work for the lakes I fish. With the old FF I have, I always kept it on the Fish Symbol ID because I didn't know it was better to leave that turned off... but it will show fish on it.

I just got the Humminbird 727 and I'm going to hook it up and try it out when I get it and then install it... I need to find a class on how to read and interpret sonar.

 

[FishingCop]

With the old FF I have, I always kept it on the Fish Symbol ID because I didn't know it was better to leave that turned off... but it will show fish on it..

Why is it better to leave the ID off??

 

[russ010]

I guess because it leaves out the confusion of whether you are looking at debris and it picks it up as a fish... whereas, when you leave the ID off, you can see the actual arch or what represents the return of a fish.

I've seen it on a few forum posts on this site, and on bass resources. I'll look a little later and see if I can find the links.

 

[SlimeTime]

Why is it better to leave the ID off??

It will simply ID anything suspended off the bottom as "fish".

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