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Humminbird Helix Help


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I'm ice fishing with my helix 5 and my friend is using his helix 7.  Neither unit is working correctly and the sonar is not picking up our jigs.  We have tried playing with the switch fire settings, sensitivity,  and noise filters.  My helix 5 won't read anything below 15 feet of water and we are in 25 feet.  Once I go past the 15 foot mark my jig line on the graph disappears.  Any help or suggestions would be helpful. 

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I never used my helix for ice fishing, but on my Marcum,  you use the gain setting to pick up you jig, not sure if this is on it, there must be something that goes there to adjust this in the menu.

 

welcome to FM antvei

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16 hours ago, antvei said:

25ft of water, you are definitely not fishing in the Marshall area 

Up on Mille lacs... I got tired of 8 feet of water and having the fish out of the hole when you set the hook

We both had purchased the ice models with the ice ducers.  we were both only running at 200Khz.  I contacted Humminbird and they said that if both are close by and running at 200 then it can cause issues.  Sounds like one would have to be at 83 and one at 200 or maybe both at 83.  I had to leave the ice before i got this response so was not able to test.

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The support cable will make the transducer sit awkward and won't read right. Those support thingies suck!

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I just purchased the Helix 7 and i love it. Unfortunately, the unit seems to be affected by most vexilars that i have fished next to. My fishing buddy also has the 5 and i will be fishing with him this weekend. I will post again on my experience with it after the weekend. I was very surprised to see this post, and actually kind of disheartened that both hummingbirds wouldn't be able to run next to each other.

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15 minutes ago, Jake Caillier said:

I just purchased the Helix 7 and i love it. Unfortunately, the unit seems to be affected by most vexilars that i have fished next to. My fishing buddy also has the 5 and i will be fishing with him this weekend. I will post again on my experience with it after the weekend. I was very surprised to see this post, and actually kind of disheartened that both hummingbirds wouldn't be able to run next to each other.

we were pretty good when i used my Vex.  If you are using a 5 and 7 try having one at 200 frequency and one at 83 or both at 83 and see what that does for you.  i have not been out since with y friend and his 7 to do any testing.

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I just seen a video that suggested switching your noise filter to advanced user mode. I'm going to give that a try as well.

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18 minutes ago, Jake Caillier said:

I just seen a video that suggested switching your noise filter to advanced user mode. I'm going to give that a try as well.

we tried doing that too.  once i got a response from Humminbird they were the ones to suggest running different frequencies on each unit.

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make sure under the sonar tab the max depth is set to Auto or to whatever depth you are fishing, it maybe set to 15' right now; a guy at the jaycees contest had the same issue, his was set at 10' max in 45' of water

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