Lowrance x67c for ice and open water?

I bought a x67c fish finder to use on the boat and on the ice but at the end of the season I could not find the ice transducer so I made a bracket to mount the fishfinder and mounted the skimmer tranducer to an arm to get it in the water and hold it level. I took it down to the fox fiver by my house to try it out and I cant get it to work right. I know this is not the best way to do it but I only want it for the last few days of ice. It was in 4 feet of water in one spot and 6 in the other. I showed the bottom just fine but there was a lot of surface clutter witch is not a big deal. The problem is I could not get my jig to show up on the flasher mode or on the graff mode. I tried auto sensitivity and manual set at high, low and everything in between. Would it help to adjust the ping or somthing else, keep the transducer farther away from me or could it be the dirty water green water. When I turned the sensitivity up the whole dial would light up and it looked like there was a ton of fish down there but I could see bottom and there was nothing but algee and a few random chuncks of slim. I am planing on going to a deeper lake and want to use it ther for this weeken and maybe next weekend if possible and cant get any info from lowrance or anyone around here so any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I did not want to admit it but that was the problem with why it was not working from the start or atleast I think so. I was switching back and forth just for the hell of it when they stoped bitting.

Turning the fish icons off would be a really, really good idea. Not so bad when you're in the boat, but for ice fishing, definitely make those go away.

I got it to work today it might have been the shallow water and a few other things but it is working perfect now. The only problem is it wont make the fish bite, lots of follow ups and interest in my bait but only 3 panfish. One was a nice perch that I had my hand on and lost because it was caught on the transducer. from a 12 hr. day. Thanks for the help.

I just found a website that says a 20 degree transducer at 20 feet will have a cone area of 3.5 feet so at 6 it would be 2.1 that should not be a problem. I just need to know witch derection the skimmer scans if it is straight down or slanted back. I am going to give it a try this weekend and see what happens. I whis there was a lake near by I could try it out on instead of wating till I get 45 miles away and ready to fish and find out it does not work.

I tried some adjustments again today and no go it was in 6 to 7 feet and the depth worked fine and it showed the bottom just fine I tried sensitivity up down and all around. and still no jig on the flasher or graph. With the sensitivity up to 90 the graph was almost filled with lines and I could see the bottom clear as day the transducer is 20 degree. It has been over a week since I emailed lowrance and still no awnser.

Can't comment on the skimmer vs ice ducer. Although I suspect that may be part of your problem. Just guessing, but I would think the ducer is essentially the same, just designed and shaped different, so it hangs straight up and down. Turn your surface clarity to "High," first of all. Second, your cone is tiny in 4' of water. You'd have to be pointing exactly at it. So if you have ANY current, this will be a big problem. The skimmer may have a pretty narrow cone to begin with. Third, maybe I'm not the best at using my x67 in shallow water, but I'd say this is the one weakness this unit may have. Ice fishing in anything less than 5 fow and things get tricky. Especially if you have an uneven bottom makeup, or weeds. Flasher mode will work best in water less than 5-6' and/or if you have weeds. I think you've got a few things working against you here in the application you're using it in.