Fish ID...

[Triton Mike]

I used to be one that wasn't a fan of fish ID. Still not in a lot of cases but in schooling fish applications I find it very important in vertical fishing. If your fishing in the middle of a big school of fish and your using say dual beam or whatever how do you tell what fish is closest to your offering but still get a "wide" view of whats under your boat. Essentially your just jigging blindly in a school of fish versus targeting a specific fish..  Bottom line is if your spoon is not at the right depth of a nearby fish it's usually not going to be as productive as being at the right depth of a nearby fish.


Use this image below for example. Orange fish are in 200khz ie narrow 20 degree beam and the other blue fish are more "off to the side" of the boat ie 83khz aka 60 degree beam . So this tells you which arch to fish for with your spoon amongst a big school of fish. I have found it to be extremely helpful in this application and surprisingly accurate that I can try to turn on a specific arch that is closest to my spoon which also makes sure that I am working my spoon at the right depth level.


Just one of the advantages that I have found favorable to FISH ID..



Here is the excerpt from the manual regarding FISH ID..

[Fishton]

I prefer to just split my screen between the two frequencies so fish directly beneath the boat show up on one half, and fish in the vicinity of my boat in the other half.  But a nice feature none the less.

[DougV]

Been able to do that for many years on a Humminbird is split the two Frequencies and Coverage Areas out:

Left Side is 60° - 83 kHz and Right Side is 20° - 200 kHz Readings

[Fishton]

That's how I like it set up, perfect!

[Triton Mike]

I prefer to just split my screen between the two frequencies so fish directly beneath the boat show up on one half, and fish in the vicinity of my boat in the other half.  But a nice feature none the less.

That definitely works as well.  Doing the Fish ID thing allows you to split the screen with another non sonar screen ie SI, DI, GPS etc etc.  Just depends on your style. 

[DougV]

Exactly Mike...Humminbird gives the users alot of different ways to view the data so they can use it to be successful. Just like Swithfire Max Mode and Clear Mode, The Ability to set up your unit to display the data the way you want it. 200 Khx Only, 83 kHz Only or Combine the Data for 200/83 kHz mix or add FISH ID and get FISH ID in both coverage areas on the same screen. THere's a tremendous amount of features packed inside a Humminbird.