Interesting Side Scan Images

I didn't see another thread for this, so I thought I would start a thread for interesting side scan images. Many people have side scan units and I thought it would be interesting to see some of the things people have captured. Here's a snapshot of the bay out from the Sportsman landing on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage. This shows how much timber is present on much of the flowage.

It looks like Lake-Link is recompressing my images when I upload them because the original images are much sharper than what I see in my post. Plus I can see compression artifacts that aren't in my original images. I don't see that in other people's posts. All I'm doing is using the "attach image" buttons below the post window. Is that what others are doing, too? Here's links to the original images: Cribs 1 Cribs 2 Cribs 3

"Is that vertical line directly below the boat or is that the horizon?" The vertical line in the middle of the image is the surface of the water right where the boat is. The dark blue to either side of the line is the water column.

nice job boatfever.

Got back from up North on a chain that I haven't been on since getting my sidescan a couple years ago. Last time I was there I stumbled upon a crib with my Humminbird 595c with just regular sonar and had created a waypoint. This time, I was curious to see what I could see with sidescan. I scanned that shoreline and was surprised to see how many cribs there were. I also scanned a few more shorelines at about the same depth and found lots more. I created a waypoint from the sidescan view for the crib I had found years ago and it lay right on top of the old waypoint, so at least it makes me feel confident that creating waypoints from sidescan reportings is actually accurate. Not that I doubted it, but seeing the same point from two completely different systems is conforting. Also, I started running with the sensitivity a lot higher and I think it results in a much sharper image.

There's a yahoo group with lots of pics if you want to join:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sideimaginggroup/

Crib? in 41' east of Brearly bar. Steve, the bigger the display, the more you will notice while on the water. Particularly subtle things, like fish marks. The good news is that you can make recordings that are pretty much the same regardless of model, and viewing those recordings on the PC at home allows you to see them at their full resolution, not limited by the number of pixels on your sonar screen. Home study works VERY well........ BoatFever, that Gravel bar you posted is actually a pretty common finding, and absolutely typical in shape. Formed by flowing water, sometimes under a glacier. Very common on Mendota and Lake Tomahawk, to name 2 lakes I have scanned. (Edit - actually, Rick K has identified this as an ice shanty, pretty much intact.)

Some pics I took today just need to go for a ride today.

Yes, you can change the colors on the unit and on the PC. I just use Humviewer. I started playing with the colors a bit more after seeing someone else post with the blue colors and thinking it looked sharper. I need to play with the settings more.

Steve, Its just the setting. On the HDS you have ten colors to pick from. Most of my pick ate color number 6 .

I really like this one. Seeing them shots makes it harder to choose. Really like the HDS shots. But prefer the look of the 988 blue. I was looking at going 798 as well due to cost. Not so sure anymore. Take it the red vs blue is just a setting? Are the images you guys posted. What you see on the screens, or just after uploading to computer?

Here's one from Lake Wisconsin way down near the dam just South of that first bay on the West side of the channel. Not sure exactly what it is I'm looking at on the sidescan, but it stood out. The upper left is standard sonar down, the bottom left is downscan.

I had something I recorded on Lake Wisconsin I wanted to post, but the file appears to be corrupted. It loads to 26% and then just locks up. First time that has happened. Also, just curious if anyone else out there had their left and right get swapped on their Humminbird sidescan?

"wow,this thread sure died." I was thinking the same thing yesterday. I know there's lots of people with SI units, I thought this thread would get more posts. Most of my stuff is from the Madison chain, and unless you come across something unique (like a car or sunken boat) there's really not much interesting to see on a side scan. I might have some worthy shots from Lake Wisconsin.

wow,this thread sure died. any one else with some shots? always neat to see,....... I'll have more after June canada trip. Hook

a few more.