Lowrance x-15 question

[BigCat21]

I recently bought the x-15 unit. My first problem is that if I out the sensitivity around 79% I get a good bottom reading and mark fish and bait well but I get surface clutter for about 8ft. This is a big problem when I am trying to catch bait in less than 8ft. I have adjusted the surface clarity setting and the noise setting and those have not fixed the problem. If I reduce the sensitivity it will decrease the surface clutter but I am also reducing my ability to mark.(example if sensitivity = 79% surface clutter is about 8 ft. if sensitivity is 50% surface clutter is about 3-4 ft.) Second question, the unit seems to loose its mind whenever I go into shallow water and seems to not be able to read anything less than 3 ft. Even if I leave 2 ft water and I’m back into 10 ft it takes a long time for it to figure that out. Has anyone else had this problem? Third - My dad took the boat out the other day and called me and said he couldn’t get the unit to read. He messed around with some settings b/c when I went out today I noticed he had the sensitivity on 100%. I fixed that and put everything back like I had it but now when I was running It kept loosing the bottom and would take a really long time to pick it back up. If I turned the unit off and then back on it would get straight for a while only to loose it again eventually.

If anyone else has had any of these problems please help me. Thanks.

[Double Duce]

Got to www.lowrance.com and download the updates for the X-15. This might help with the time delay.

Tommy

[madaff]

BigCat.

Try this, I had the X15 when they were first released and had been updating it ever since. But you can do this without updating.

Go to Sonar features and select "surface clarity" press enter and the select "high". This will show most surface clutter very high on your display leaving a better viewing screen. Then you can adjust the sensitivity higher showing more detail and better bottom display. In most cases more sensitivity the better. However too much and it's a lot harder to pick out individual fish from patches of bait.

Loosing picture can come from many reasons. When entering shallow water any aeration from the hull, motor etc will loose picture. I have had my unit reading in 1 foot of water, which showed it could do it but if you couldn't see fish in 1 foot of water the I would need a "Braille" screen to read it ;P
It most case I like to leave the unit in Auto depth range, that is unless I am only interested in the bottom or mid water, you can also set your depth range for the first 10 feet or whatever if you looking for the fish you described. However the bottom will not be viewable.

I will say one thing you have a brilliant fishing tool in your X15c, and in time you will become dangerous with it, and your mates will think your on drugs when you will see things they can't

One thing I used to do was record the sonar data for the day and then play it back on my PC, because you PC is colour and the recording is done in colour, YOU WILL SEE 100% more on your PC than on the monochrome unit.(More pixels you see)

No longer a Lowrance Rep

Hope this helps

Rob

[BigCat21]

Thanks for the help I will try both suggestions.