My Lowrance 5x HDI is lousy in water less than 10 feet deep. Is anyone else experiencing this with there FF?

My HDS8 was terrible in shallow water. Just showed clutter

I'm struggling with the same issue with my Elite-4 HDI. Lots of clutter. Especially sucks for me as a crappie fisherman.

 

 

 

Elite 7hdi on my tm...and no.

pretty clear

I was under the impression that Di units do not work well in shallow water. I know u have to be moving for them to work. I have no idea how Lowrance Di units work when in 2d, but I suspect the unit is using a Di traducer and then translating that into a 2d display. If this is the case then there isn't much u can do. If, however, u have a standard transducetr then its a settings problem. BTW just because u have a display that is capable of Di that doesn't necessarily mean u have a Di transducer. Lowrance is pretty bad about selling units capable of Di and or Si but u have to purchase the transducer separately. This is one of the reasons I went Humminbird. I was looking at a Lowrance unit, the salesman informed me that although the unit was capable of structure scam and Di, that the transducers were extra, that it came with a standard transducer.

Can you adjust the upper range? You should be able to get rid of much of the surface clutter.

My Garmin is very clear in shallow water (yes, those are shad/white bass it's reading).

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Again (the spots on the DI side are water spots)

I'm struggling with the same issue with my Elite-4 HDI. Lots of clutter. Especially sucks for me as a crappie fisherman.

 

 

 

Try taking you sensitivity off of auto and turning it down a bit.

 

I've got an HDS Gen2Touch that reads great in shallow water and an older Lowrance that before my built in tm tranducer started to die was just as good. 

I never used auto sensitivety on a Lowrance. Shows way to much clutter like that. 

Turn the sensitivity down