What goin on guys WhiteMike here with a quick question....

My depth finder is a Eagle Fisheasy320C...its a quality depth finder for my 14 foot john that was purchased last year.

I read an article about a pro dropping his spoon down on the depth finder and actually seeing it on the graph, and letting it fall to where the fish were

I tried this same tactic when drop shotting one day except i could not see my lure on the graph? Could this be the sensitivity? Is it the quality of my grpah or what?

Here we call this technic "vertical fishing", we use it with jigging spoon  and jig head with shad type lures (we make them swimm just above the botom crontroling the drift with the troling motor).

About your graph settings : put sensitivity from 90 to 97% (if water is not too dirty), chart speed on mawimum, and if you can increase "ping" settings to the max. With this you allow your graph to see even a tiny drop shot.

One thing you have to check is how wide is your transducer working. I use 200hrtz with 60° angle (90° is even better) transducer on the troling motor and another one on the transom for the second screen. At the begining chose depth under 25 feet and flat , you'll have a wider pic of the bottom and less shade area. Drop a 2 once jig head with an hammer shad (or else). If you are not drifting you'll be able to see it if you place your rod tip just in front. then control your drift to found your lure you'll probably see it better on one side or another since its difficult to have the transducer perfectly flat. When you increase your fishing speed (drift) you create an angle between the rod tip and your lure. You'll catch up with the transducer on the back of the boat.

Hope this will help you!