FINALLY got the 798ci SI on the water yesterday. SPent 4 hours in a lake I have fished for years just "lookin". It was awesome!
Havin a couple issues though, even after I read the manual which is thicker than the Bible, ....twice!
1. I have it mounted in a portable manner with the transducer hanging over the back of the boat in a position exactly like it would be if permanently mounted. The only motor on the flat is the trolling motor, also on the transom. I can set the unit to scan right or scan left and it does great. If I set it to scan BOTH, then BOTH sides of the screen look ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL on the screen. Not similar, exactly the same. I am wondering if the transducer beam is bouncing off of the trolling motor and reading back right even though it is trying to read left? Thougts?
2. When I mark a tree, say, 60ft to the right of the boat and save it as a waypoint, I can't get back over it again. I pull up the split screen that shows the chart on the left with my waypoint icon and the boat, and the screen on the right has traditional 200khz sonar so I can see the tree when i get over it. BUT!!!! I can't get to the dang waypoint icon!! Little left, little right, woops too far, back up!
It's like the GPS has a 3 second delay and I can't tell which way I am supposed to go. If the pile is huge, it's not a big deal, but a small pile is TUFF! Help!
Love the unit, just need to learn how to use it better.