Lowrance StrucureScan 3D training examples On March 09, 2017

Author Kirt Hedquist Doctor Sonar Pro Staff

The orange dots are fish, the blue triangle is the area of the water column viewed by the sonar. The brown is the bottom of the lake.

I was mowing the grass doing some scouting you can see some bait fish probably suspended where I started my pass. red circle

To the left of the boat is dropping off to deeper water and shallow to the right (notice how the blue triangle slopes down)

Also note more bait fish just to the right (green circle)

Covering about 360’ in width off to the left and behind the boat you can see a transition to harder bottom as its getting deeper. Red circle

 Some fish below and behind the boat the cluster on the left and below maybe some turbulence. Green circle on fish

To the right its getting shallower with a little hump to the right and below the boat. Orange circle

Some fish and baitfish suspended in the water column dropping off to deeper water to the left of the boat. drop-off red circle

The edge of some rocks or rock ridge to the right of the boat. Green circle

Showing some fish and baitfish in the water column deeper to the left getting shallow to the right Red circle on fish, green circle on shallow area 

A large amount of bait fish (red circle) and a ridge or rock pile (green circle)

Lots of Smelt in this lake, fish are well fed 

More of the same lots bait, a transition from soft to hard with a ridge or rock ridge to the right (red circle)

Shallow water on the left and a drop off to the right 

by Bruce Samson under lowrance

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