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King County, WA

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03/03/2015
41° - 45°
Trolling
Cutthroat Trout
Attractor
Silver
Sunny
Plug
Noon
46° - 50°
03/03/2015
1
1496

Not much for a report, but was out testing the Lowrance Elite 7 I just installed and decided to troll a while since I was there. I launched out of the Kirkland boat launch and just stayed on the east side of the lae from the 520 bridge back to Kirkland. So only a couple bait balls but noting to show for it. I definatly like the detail of the depthsounder verses my old Humminbird and I was able to play with all the settings. The only thing I couldn't figure out is why the depth on the chart platter was not accurate at all. Like it show the deepest part of Lake Washington only being 65ft? And there was no difference between the base Lowrance map and the Lake map they provide on the mirco SD. I still have my portable Garmin gps with marine maps on it to at least see what the depths are supposed to be. I will have to keep looking into that before fishing starts heating up.


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yowz
3/4/2015 1:11:00 PM
I recently purchased an Elite 7 also. Was ready to throw it in the lake after the first session with it, going out for the second trial tomorrow. Hope I have learned enough from reading & videos to use it more efficiently.
Your depth problem may be if you have it set on meters rather than feet.
Let me know know if you find settings that seem to work better than others. I use mine in Lake Chelan.
gregsalmon
3/4/2015 7:28:00 PM
Could fathoms or meters?
Adam B.
3/4/2015 8:43:00 PM
That is what I figured it would have been, but I checked when I was out there too.
bigmikej62
3/8/2015 7:00:00 PM
When you figure out why that elite 7 does that let me know. Mine does that sometimes and is very frustrating especially when Lowrance support has been no help after numerous calls and complaints. Last time out it told me water was 45 ft. deep when I know from past history that it is closer to 100 ft where we were. Don't recommend this unit to anyone and I'm rethinking Lowrance altogether due to their lack of support for this unit although I called them the first time when it brand new.
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