Thread: After much reading and such, I still can not make a clear cut decision on which to go

Originally Posted by Fish Assassin

I have a question about the new down imaging units as well. If you have a wider (left to ride) but narrower (front to back) beam for down imaging and say your in 20 feet of water. If a tree appears on the left side of the beam of the transducer how will that show on the screen. Because it would be useless to see structure but not know which side of the boat it is located on? I am getting ready to order the Hbird down imaging and this is the last piece of information that I am curious about.

Hi Fish Assassin, Great question and I get asked this a lot. If you see a fish on DI there really is no way to tell via DI and even sonar which side of the boat the tree is on. Side imaging gives you that ability tho.

Mike

Originally Posted by T Mike

Hi Maachuu, To answer your question it depends on how you fish and use your electronics to fish. With DI and even sonar you need to be moving roughly 2 to 5mph to get a clear picture of STRUCTURE or its going to look like you are motionless over a piece of brush. But with DI you don't have to be moving at all to see fish. The reason being is the footprint of a DI beam is a thin straight line shooting downward. if a fish goes through this beam it shows a blimp. But since cover like brushpiles are bigger and exceed the width of the narrow beam it is skewed so you need to moving 2 to 5mph or so.

The cool thing with the HB DI only units is they come with sonar. It's tough to see your lure with DI but with sonar it gives you that option. But it's a good learning tool so that you can cross reference what you see on sonar with what you are seeing on DI.

As for service. Joby and Greg from Humminbird are on here a good bit. Doug and I are also on here a good bit. YOu have any trouble feel free to contact any of us. Also Humminbird has a track record of servicing their units for quite a while. HB is still servicing some units made back in 1998 still servicing the old HDR600 units .

Hope this helps

Thanks tmike


m

Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper

You need to bring that rig down to Oologah so I can send you back with some great big 'ol winter time slabs. I'd love to see some of your toys/tools in action. The Crappie fishing on Oologah has been so hot this winter it's like taking candy from a baby! It's been normal to catch over 200 fish with the keepers averaging in the 11" - 14" range. Every now and then a bigun get's hooked that'll push 2.5lbs+. Limit is 37 per person daily and you can keep them all. I've got enough.

crappie, is 37 a mis-print or not? if not why the unusual number of 37 for a limit? strange. but then i could consider the state you are from?

Jig in DI and SI windows.

well after much reading and talkin, Im still not committed to either brand, some say I would want the 2d sonar along with the DI that comes with the HB and the Lowrance does not have it, I have moved up to lookin for a unit with gps capabilites. the Low has a good picture with DI but as mentioned, it does not have the 2d sonar that HB does. So that is the quandry at this point but I must admit, I seem to like the Low a slight bit better but I also like the fact that we have 2 members that work for HB on here

thanks
m

Originally Posted by maachuu

well after much reading and talkin, Im still not committed to either brand, some say I would want the 2d sonar along with the DI that comes with the HB and the Lowrance does not have it, I have moved up to lookin for a unit with gps capabilites. the Low has a good picture with DI but as mentioned, it does not have the 2d sonar that HB does. So that is the quandry at this point but I must admit, I seem to like the Low a slight bit better but I also like the fact that we have 2 members that work for HB on here

thanks
m

Have to agree, it's nice to have HB employees around. I was on a Muskie site, and the President of Marketing was on there as the HB rep. He said he bought a Lowrance DI unit, for testing purposes of course. Now that there's more then 1 player in the market, it's causing everyone to step up their game. It's a good thing for all of us little guys. People come and go from jobs and forums, so I'm not sure how much weight I'd put into the members on here, but it's nice for now.

The good thing for you, is that you are taking the time to learn about both units, and deciding which is best for you. I don't think you'll have buyers remorse when you make your decision. Good luck man.

Here is pvc "stump" found by my HB. I am trying to help...:p:p

Thanks mduncan62, yea I am still tryin to figure it all out