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    Something Familiar on SI

    Have you ever passed over a formation on SI that reminded you of something? Sort of like seeing familiar things in clouds. Well, that happened to me today. I was passing over a featureless area while trolling and a face jumped out at me. I turned the boat around and went back over it and, sure enough, a face.

    I have added the SI screen capture as well as a zoomed and cropped image as well. I tried coming at it from the opposite direction and nothing but a hump. The eyes, nose, and mouth were formed by the sonar shadow which didn't appear from the opposite direction.

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    Cool Pic! Curious what depth is the bait

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    That's pretty cool
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    This is a "fish attractor". There were several placed around the lake during construction.

    Images done with a 1198c SI Combo and 360.
    The composite Down Image and Side Image show the shape.






    And when scanned with 360 and Contour Mode turned on=====

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    #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Wayne P. View Post
    This is a "fish attractor". There were several placed around the lake during construction.

    Images done with a 1198c SI Combo and 360.
    The composite Down Image and Side Image show the shape.






    And when scanned with 360 and Contour Mode turned on=====

    Too funny... Alien!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bjxds View Post
    Cool Pic! Curious what depth is the bait
    The bait was running between 35' and 50'. It's typically shallower this time of year but, with a front moving through, the barometric pressure drove them deeper. To capture this image, I drove back over the site and tuned the Sensitivity and Contrast for the bottom so the bait was pretty faint.

    It took me 3 passes over the area to get the angle right. It had to be perfect with the sonar shadows cast just the right direction or it looked totally different. I've trolled over this area dozens of times but guess I had never been over this specific area at this specific angle before.
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    Steve, I believe that might be an actual dummy used for a SAR practice. If I remember, Wayne was helping with some training? I remember the photo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ezfishn View Post
    Steve, I believe that might be an actual dummy used for a SAR practice. If I remember, Wayne was helping with some training? I remember the photo.
    No that 360 image was due to the water column being deleted using Contour Mode. It's the exact same subject as the DI and SI views.

    This is a screen shot of a scuba diver taken during an actual SAR operation:

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    Both the face & the 360 pics are pretty cool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ezfishn View Post
    Steve, I believe that might be an actual dummy used for a SAR practice. If I remember, Wayne was helping with some training? I remember the photo.
    It would have been a 30+ foot dummy, based on the SI Range Lines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SLYDoggie View Post
    It would have been a 30+ foot dummy, based on the SI Range Lines.
    Yeah...I didn't even look at the range. Just thought I remembered the image from earlier times and thinking Wayne had been involved with some SAR training and going by the shape. Just more proof my memory is fading...LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by ezfishn View Post
    Yeah...I didn't even look at the range. Just thought I remembered the image from earlier times and thinking Wayne had been involved with some SAR training and going by the shape. Just more proof my memory is fading...LOL
    I resemble that remark
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