Side imaging in shallow water?

There are lots of usages for shallow water SI. Finding bream beds. Crappie stakes, Flats for red fish etc etc. Bass spooking from pinging I have always kept that in the back of my mind. But when I can sit in one spot and catch 20 to 30fish on a spoon vertical fishing???? I'm not sure I can validate the claim of it spooking fish. OF course in a shallow water situation and fishing slow and methodically ie flipping and pitching close range might make more sense but if your a power guy that covers water and needs information SI shallow will help you see hidden brush, logs or even fish that you might miss.

My theory has always been better to have information than none at all.

Here is a shallow water bream bed that you can see the actual bream in the beds (white dashes) just to give one example of many.

That was my thoughts exactly - cannot wait to get out there and try it out darn it - gotta wait another week!!!

But I too have seen other photos of beds - they show up like a bunch of white pimples all over, what an awesome way to find beds, even in murkier water

verticle fishing ping noise vs. shallow water.....I will venture a guess that it would not make a big diff.  The intensity at say 20-30 feet I would guess (and I am not totally sure?) would be the same or more for those fish you are fishing vertically - in fact that signal in the case of verticle is even more direct right?  So the noise would be even better perceived then bouncing around in the shallows....just another thought on that topic.....Maybe that ping noise helped you catch all those fish in verticle fishing