What have you guys found is the easiest way to stay on a weedline when flipping etc.? I have tried using my 2D and structure scan to stay on but I always end up way inside or way outside or lost because I don't know where it is, my only other thought is to side image it first? Thanks.

Mark some waypoints along the line and have at it. 

Two of three of these old school deals can surely make that task quite a bit easier ~ 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Taylor_Made_Hot_Spot_Fishing_Marker_Buoy/descpage-HSFM.html

 

A-Jay

 

Markers or waypoints are the most obvious.  I'm new to side-scanning this year, but I'm discovering weedlines show up reasonably well from the outside -- I can see when I'm getting close and when I'm about to cross it.  

Here are the different ways I have done it over the years as technology has progressed

 

360 Imaging -  So easy it's cheating.

 

Side Imaging -  If you're paralleling the weed line you can see how far you are from it using side imaging.  You need to be able to understand how to read the side imaging when you're not moving or moving slowly.

 

GPS Waypoints - as @Dens228 suggested.

 

Marker Buoys - as @A-Jay suggested.  The old school waypoint.  I bet I have dropped and retrieved a marker buoy 10,000 times in my life.   With new technology,  I haven't used one in years. I don't miss them but still carry a couple.

 

 

I'm real old school.  When I start hitting the weeds with my bait I drop anchor and fish the area.

2 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

I'm real old school.  When I start hitting the weeds with my bait I drop anchor and fish the area.

^ This - with only down-scan available to me, I have to 'feel my way' to the weedline.

1 hour ago, Bankbeater said:

I'm real old school.  When I start hitting the weeds with my bait I drop anchor and fish the area.

 

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

^ This - with only down-scan available to me, I have to 'feel my way' to the weedline.

 

Worked in the 70s...works today!

I use my 360 Imaging to accurately work weed edges.

I still use marker buoys when fishing a long stretch of submerged weeds, something that my local lake doesn't have.  A few of the other lakes I frequent have them, but when I use buoys, they seem to attract other anglers, so I only mark a short length. Many of the submerged weeds I can see in the clear water and I normally pitch short distances, so I don't even bother.

I now keep a marker on the dash. After one of my bud knocked a spin outfit overboard in 5' water in heavy wind. If i had a marker handy we probabally would have got it back.

I'm in a kayak, but what I usually try to do is scout the area with my side imaging first and then fish it. If the weedline is near the shore, that gives me a general marker and I can usually operate from memory. I also have a pretty good inherit sense of direction, which comes in handy with situations like these.

 

If it's in the middle with no real visible markers then I may need to add some waypoints.

5 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

I'm real old school.  When I start hitting the weeds with my bait I drop anchor and fish the area.

Same here.

Slow way down and throw a Carolina rig. Feel your way along 

Before I got my new Echomap units I would go back and forth marking each side of the old creek bed on our lake with a waypoint. It sure helped, you could do the same with your weed line.