Interpreting distance with Livescope

[tcesni]

I'm about three weeks into fishing with the LVS34 system and I am puzzled by the distance function when using the system on forward mode. It seems that when I am seeing something that the unit says is 40 feet in front of me the object is really only about 20 feet away. This is very obvious when "looking" at a channel marker that is basically a telephone pole. My unit will show it to be 40 feet away when it is obviously only about 20 feet away. Is this because I am roughly 20 feet of water at the time or is there a calibration that I haven't done?

[tcesni]

Bump

[Mcjenson]

I'd honestly trust the livescope over your eyeballs / estimations. As most guys who are new and learning to cast accurately with livescope learn, "40 feet is way closer than you think, and 100 feet is way further than you think"

[Keoweefishing]

The Livescope distance should be accurate.

[tcesni]

I'm taking a tape measure the next time I go fishing and will report back.

[LWINCHESTER2]

[dabassking]

An easy check is to trim your outboard all the way down and turn your TM around and look at it. I can see my skeg about 20’ behind me when I do that. That really put things into perspective for me in regards to distance. 20 ft is about the length of a boat and I use that reference in my head all the time when casting to targets.