My .02 on depth finders - unless you are fishing, by the time you need it it is too late

My boat consistently reads 160 -180 ft deep out around the boy scout cove area near the marina. I figured that was about right. 

Great, appreciate it Csleaver! 

57 minutes ago, anutami said:

I concur

I’ll keep an eye out for you next time we are down there. Hopefully you were not on the water Friday when those storms came through. We got off about 10 minutes before it hit. Heard something like 9 boats sank. Yikes! Glad no one was hurt. 

6 hours ago, ahopkins22LSV said:

Nothing better then the first launch with a new boat!

I remove our PNP bags each off season, but I have yet had to clean them. I mainly do it to prevent any extra areas that could contain water/moisture through the winter. Maybe that’s why I don’t have to clean them?

I believe there is a depth calibration setting on the small screen. I could be wrong through. I’ve never messed with it. One thing to keep in mind is the depth is the reading from the bottom of the boat. This lsv is going to draft a lot more than your previous boats. Is that the difference you are seeing?

Thanks for the info on the PNP - I will plan on removing them more often to keep them less nasty!  :-) 

On depth, our lake is really deep.  When I backed off the lift yesterday, it showed about 50-60 ft deep, which is what I expected.  We are on the main channel of Norris and it is a very deep lake but was consistently reading 190-ish feed deep which seemed deeper vs what I recall seeing.  Expected 120-150'.  Could be 100% accurate of course.  And not really that important as I'm not hitting the bottom here.   :-)