I went to Lake Ferguson this afternoon armed with an SD card inserted into my sidescan depthfinder.  Even though the new toy was on board I started fishing seriously. I only caught one in that hour, fooled with the depthfinder a little and continued to fish. In two more hours I caught two more, so three in all. When I got home I downloaded the screenshots from the card to my computer, surprisingly without too much trouble. The first two scans are of a sunken wooden barge. Note the water temperature.

If you click on the picture you can enlarge them and begin to see some bait fish around the end of the barge. In the first picture you can see a little bush on the point just before the barge, some rocks around the point, and a few fish around the edge of the point. The fish show up as white oblong spots.

The third one was taken in the chute where you can see many more fish, some even leaving sound shadows on the bottom where they block off the sound that makes the image. There are a good many bait balls or schools of shad. One is directly under the boat and five more are off to the side. The depthfinder was set to look to the right side of the boat because the transducer is on that side and a better picture is obtained because there is no motor interference. The black portion on the left side of the picture is the distance from the bottom of the boat to the bottom of the lake.  Mine is a first generation model and does not have the resolution of some of the newer ones but I think it’s still pretty neat.