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It’s easily customizable for ease of operation. With three soft-key preset buttons on your Humminbird 798c, you can create multiple views with GPS/Side Imaging or Side Imaging/sonar or GPS/sonar, or many more. This feature can be helpful when cruising around quickly on the hunt for schools of fish. Clear Mode will be very beneficial to a newer user of the Humminbird 798ci or people that have a tough time interpreting what they see on the sonar screen.
#Hummingbird depth finder software
In SwitchFire Clear Mode, Time Variable Gain (TVG) software sifts through sonar returns to display only fish and structure – great for fishing in shallow and rough water, or for reducing undesired clutter in the water column. When searching for baitfish on your fish finder, or other small structure, you will want to use and become familiar with Max Mode. Since Max Mode returns so much information on the screen, it may be difficult for an unexperienced user to interpret what they see on the screen. You’ll see the tiniest subsurface object (even thermoclines and water currents) for complete underwater coverage. In Max Mode, sonar returns really come to life from the screen, in amazing detail. SwitchFire sonar modes let you adjust the view on the screen to the fishing conditions. The Hummingbird 798ci HD si fish finder, features a reliable, top of the line sonar–SwitchFire. Getting the picture why you need a Humminbird 798ci yet? Switchfire This is a tool any new or experienced fisherman needs to have in their arsenal. If you turn on Narrow Mode, it analyzes the returns to verify the position of the echoes to ensure Down Imaging only shows you structure and activity beneath you, and not off to one side or another. This gives you the ability to see the structure with a side view, even though you are going over the top of it. Down Imaging creates “snapshots” while emitting super thin slices of high-frequency sound waves. If you thought Side Imaging on the Humminbird 798ci HD si was cool, now they have come out with Down Imaging. You can even recognize fish within the structure! Cruise around your favorite fishing holes and really learn what’s down there. Many fisherman, myself included, are curious what the cribs on our sonars look like? You will be able to cruise over them with the Humminbird 798c and get a clear view of what’s actually down there.
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With the Side Imaging on your Humminbird 798c, your fish finder can show amazing detail of the bottom of the lake up to 240’ wide, to the left and right of the boat. Humminbird developed Side Imaging in the mid-2000s and captured what many fisherman had always wanted: a picture of what’s under the surface of the water. Side Imaging on the Hummingbird 798c is one of the greatest technological advancements since the arrival of a combo GPS/ sonar.