Electronic help

[Oldyankee]

I have a new rig but need some help. I have a terrova motor. Looking for the best fish finder to match with it.
I fish Louisiana, a lot of the lakes aren't depth mapped. I like the idea of how the contour idea works, but don't think it is available here much.
Spider rig mainly in less than 20'
The boat came with a helix 5 mounted in the center console, mainly just use the one on the console for gps, they didn't put a transducer that will side image on the back, and I'm using an old lowrance elite 4 off the trolling motor.
Should I just switch them out?
Do I need any other transducer other than what is on the motor for side imaging?
Is the Helix 5 map smart with the trolling motor? Thought I heard it isn't.

[rnvinc]

Which HELIX 5 ...??

*HELIX 5 Sonar GPS
*HELIX 5 DI GPS
*HELIX 5 SI GPS
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Your HELIX can use LakeMaster or Navionics map cards ...

You can check the Navionics coverage for your lakes in their web app ...
Navionics Webapp
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You can check the LakeMaster coverage in their region cards ...
http://www.humminbird.com/Category/Support/Find-a-Lake/

You can also check into LakeMaster ChartSelect which allows you to purchase just one lake ...
http://www.humminbird.com/Category/T...y/ChartSelect/

The HELIX 5 is not Ethernet capable to link to the trolling motor ...

Rickie

[Oldyankee]

I surmise that since no lakes in La are on there, I wouldn't need it anyway?

[rnvinc]

There is also the option of building your own Lake maps with the Autochart or AutoChart Pro software packages ...

You would use your HELIX 5 to create Sonar recordings ... which would then be imported into the software program to be rendered into your own custom maps for your lakes ...

http://www.humminbird.com/Category/T...ogy/Autochart/

http://www.humminbird.com/Freshwater...phy/AutoChart/

Rickie