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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 438013" data-attributes="member: 389">1.&nbsp; Yes, you can figure out the direction the fish are traveling.&nbsp; For example, in the house I can see all four lines on the LS in the down perspective.&nbsp; It won't take but a few seconds to figure out if they are coming from the left or right of the lines.&nbsp; As they leave, you can put it into forward facing and watch them swim away.&nbsp; We had numerous schools of perch come through and it was really fun to do just that.2.&nbsp; Not that I've noticed, but we are always worried about something spooking the fish.&nbsp; In reality, jigging the bait in the fish's face ran them away several times, so you can see how aggressively to jig pretty easily.3.&nbsp; I'm sure my limits will expand as I am new to this, but I could very handily pick out fish from 15+ feet off to the side.&nbsp; My buddy was fishing about 40 ft away, and even when I knew he had fish under them I couldn't see them the couple times I tried to look.&nbsp; I am sure I have some tweaking in the head unit's settings to do that will improve things.&nbsp; I used it out scouting for a while and thought I saw fish at 30, or so feet out from me.&nbsp; But it could just have been trees as I was scouting an underwater forest and only in 5-7 ft of water.&nbsp; In the 21-22 ft of water we ended up fishing in with a pretty smooth bottom, there was no mistaking them as they approached both hugging the bottom and when well up off the bottom out to at least 15 ft off to the side.&nbsp; Even with just a little practice, it was really easy to discern size of the incoming fish.&nbsp; I quickly got to the point where I could/would pull my bait out of the way of smaller perch, and this allowed me to target the bigger fish in a given school.&nbsp; The one walleye (21-22 inches) I caught, was easily 5X the return signal of a 10 inch perch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 438013, member: 389"] 1. Yes, you can figure out the direction the fish are traveling. For example, in the house I can see all four lines on the LS in the down perspective. It won't take but a few seconds to figure out if they are coming from the left or right of the lines. As they leave, you can put it into forward facing and watch them swim away. We had numerous schools of perch come through and it was really fun to do just that. 2. Not that I've noticed, but we are always worried about something spooking the fish. In reality, jigging the bait in the fish's face ran them away several times, so you can see how aggressively to jig pretty easily. 3. I'm sure my limits will expand as I am new to this, but I could very handily pick out fish from 15+ feet off to the side. My buddy was fishing about 40 ft away, and even when I knew he had fish under them I couldn't see them the couple times I tried to look. I am sure I have some tweaking in the head unit's settings to do that will improve things. I used it out scouting for a while and thought I saw fish at 30, or so feet out from me. But it could just have been trees as I was scouting an underwater forest and only in 5-7 ft of water. In the 21-22 ft of water we ended up fishing in with a pretty smooth bottom, there was no mistaking them as they approached both hugging the bottom and when well up off the bottom out to at least 15 ft off to the side. Even with just a little practice, it was really easy to discern size of the incoming fish. I quickly got to the point where I could/would pull my bait out of the way of smaller perch, and this allowed me to target the bigger fish in a given school. The one walleye (21-22 inches) I caught, was easily 5X the return signal of a 10 inch perch. [/QUOTE]

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