Re: Boatist-fishfinder help, Lowrance X-50
My X50 has been great since new. In fact I like it better than any new Lowrance unit. However for deep salt water it is good only to about 200 feet with the standard 20 degree 192 KHZ transducer. Deeper than that I would see bottom but no fish. I got a 8 degree 192khz transducer and it works good out to 500 feet of saltwater for finding Bottom fish or rock fish.<br /><br />The vertical resolution is only 192 pixels and it has no zoom to expand the bottom so to see small fish in deep water you need to use bottom track. Bottom track on this unit will let you expand the bottom as much as your want. You can set for bottom and up 10 feet so you only see the bottom 10 feet, or any number of feet over 10 feet. When rock fishing in deep water I found bottom and up 50 feet works very well. So if your fishing 400 feet deep you will display the water from 350 feet to 400 feet. At that setting it see even small rock fish. To set the bottom track on this unit you put in the number of feet you want to display (must be 10 feet or more) from the keyboard then hit 2nd function bottom track (8). To go back to full water depth you hit Clear, 2nd function, bottom track or 8.<br /><br />If you are running a number of depth finders they will usually interfeer with each other. Keep in mind the transducer frequency is 192Khz.<br /><br />I only wish the new lowrance units had bottom track, I would buy one of the new color ones this year if they had this feature.
