Thread: Lowrance vs. Humminbird

The members of Crappie.com rarely show up in this manner, but it does happen from time to time. I'm sure other boards have similar issues. I trust any posters new to the board will understand and let certain comments slide as we must do in real life from time to time.

Maybe members of this board who live near shorebound1 will invite him onboard fishing and let him experience the features that both Humminbird and Lowrance offer. Then I'm sure the man could make his own mind up and meet a couple of new fishing buddies at the same time? Just an idea.

I haven't seen either one work, after reading all of this I'm going to take up golf Rofl

Originally Posted by crappiemax

I haven't seen either one work, after reading all of this I'm going to take up golf Rofl

Don't do it Crappiemax. You'll just get into debates over range finders and GPS equipment all over again. There is a lot of electrics for golf also. Thumbs Up Doh

I'm an HB owner.

Last Febuary I was like a lot of folks this year, looking to buy a side imaging unit. I read everything that I could between the two brands, went to seminars, called customer support. I even found a couple of local guys to take me out on their boats to show me the units in action.

I came up with a list of what was important for me. One was price.

Another was a concern about mounting two transducers on my transom. The transom on my boat is flat, I don't have a jackplate and I wanted to take advantage of the overlay feature on the Lowrance. However, I was concerned about the transducers causing obstruction of the other unit's signals. I called Lowrance Customer Support on this. While they were helpful, they wouldn't tell me that obstruction would not be an issue. I went to a seminar. Talked with the Lowrance expert. Even took him to a similar boat as mine and asked where I needed to mount the transducers. Again, he couldn't guarantee that there wouldn't be obstruction. The best answer that I got was to mount on opposite sides of the boat. But this would take away an advantage of the Lowrance, the overlay feature.

Another want on my list was SI at both the transom and the bow. I could get this with purchase of two SI units from HB, but I would have to buy two LSS-1 units to have that with Lowrance or buy one LSS-1 transducer and only be able to view the SI from wherever I mounted that transducer.

So, with a heck of a price on HB units, no guarantee that the SS from Lowrance would work on my situation, lack of SI at both locations. I went with HB.

I'm also a happy HB owner.

Great information Stymie. For reference, can you tell us what kind of boat you have, or post a pic of your transom. This is the first time I've heard this as a concern, so I'm wondering are you meaning to say interference with the 2 beams?

Originally Posted by mduncan62

Great information Stymie. For reference, can you tell us what kind of boat you have, or post a pic of your transom. This is the first time I've heard this as a concern, so I'm wondering are you meaning to say interference with the 2 beams?

can i still send pictures without offending you????????????/

Hey, just found out that the HDS7 I just bought is made in Mexico or maybe assembled in Mexico. I wonder if there is some "stash" inside? I may have hit gold. Maybe I can find gold fish. What a feature.

so what you say we get back to fishingThumbs Up

Originally Posted by kosmo

so what you say we get back to fishingThumbs Up

Didn't I catch you the other day??????????

Originally Posted by kosmo

so what you say we get back to fishingThumbs Up

Some fish pics would be nice Thumbs Up