Tuning Humminbird Mega Live Landscape Mode - Fish on Bottom 70 Feet Out

This is a departure for my normal Trolling With Humminbird Mega Live in Landscape Mode videos. Based on the many requests I've received asking for a "regular" Landscape Mode usage video of scanning the bottom for fish, I have produced this tuning video.
The area I chose is a very flat area of about 6 to 7 feet and, for the most part, is pretty much featureless. The only mild feature is a slight depression which shows up in the video.
Timeline:
0:10 - Introduction
3:40 - Tuned Landscape Mode Sonar Recording
4:01 - Adjusting Sensitivity
6:26 - Adjusting Contrast
7:38 - Adjusting Dynamic Contrast
8:50 - Changing to Color Palettes 7 through 12
10:03 - Changing to Color Palettes 1 through 6
11:17 - Tuning the #1 Color Palette... Sensitivity and Contrast
12:35 - Tuning the #1 Color Palette... Dynamic Contrast
13:42 - Wrap-Up

[@AsfiledPelican]

Awesome, Thank you for the videos, A lot of help.

[@SLYFishing]

Glad they help!

[@jameslencke9098]

Excellent video

[@SLYFishing]

Thanks!

[@ChuckPippinBassFishing]

Great info! 🙌🏼

[@SLYFishing]

Thanks Chuck.

[@Mnfish22]

Great video!!!

[@SLYFishing]

Thanks Ken. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@o.v.bonner7228]

Thanks for the video

[@SLYFishing]

Glad you liked it!

[@dmadams75]

Very good videos on the Mega Live, thanks. I troll mainly for Lake and Rainbow trout, very deep water (30-90') Any pointers on the angle of my transducer to cover this area. Problem is the rainbow run shallower and the Lake run deeper in the same water. A lot of time in 150'+water suspended the the above depths.

[@SLYFishing]

I regularly go down to 60' but not 90'. I don't know that it would work well at that depth. From a Landscape angle standpoint, probably 30° or 40° down from horizontal... 5 or 6 clicks up from the down position.

[@sonar5676]

120/20.

[@SLYFishing]

I'm not exactly sure what your comment is stating. Are you saying that the sonar beam angles are 120 x 20? If so, I would love to know your source because Humminbird hasn't published those details.

[@jamescarow6349]

Pretty obvious that landscape is about useless for finding bottom structure. Why in the world its called "land"scape is beyond me. Thanks

[@SLYFishing]

I've always assumed the landscape name came from the fact that it is a side-to-side view... just like portrait vs landscape on a video. I'm guessing that Perspective and Scout were already copyrighted by Garmin and Lowrance.
Yes, if you were looking for fish on structure, I would definitely use the Forward Mode for that. That's not really the purpose of Landscape Mode.
Landscape is good for determining where things are from a distance and side to side perspective, but you are clueless on the depth perspective.
Forward Mode is good for determining where things are from a distance and depth perspective, but you are clueless on the side to side perspective.