Thread: Down Imaging vs Side imaging vs neither

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

X2, except I have 2 HDS units. Works well for me as I have double vision.

Same here but three HDS units. Once you figure out what sidescan is showing you you'll never want to be without it.

Originally Posted by Creamlevel Kennels

I use it all. Fishing Tournaments, I caan make one pass down a bank line, and see anything that might hold fish with my SI. Once I locate the structure, and pull up, over the top and look right into the brush pile and see if there are any fish there. Lowrance is a little more expensive, but for me it was only $200. I bought the HDS-10-SI Base Package, HDS-7-SI, and LSS-1, and only cost $200 more than HB. But I shopped the enternet, looking for best price for a month before I bought. Typically lowrance is about $500-$600 more if you don't get seroius on the searching. But it think it is still worth it in the BETTER Imagaes you will get from Lowrance. JMO



keith

X2 I need all the help I can get.

I seem to use the down scan more than the side scan.

Probably True...

But it is probably because you fish the same lake/lakes (Home Lake) most of the time, which would mean you are fishing the same Brush Piles also. I do to. But it gets down to what you are looking for. When I'm fishing my 2 Home Lakes, I tend to know where the Brush Piles are, and I'm not searching for structure. I just go to a Way Point, where I have Sonar/Down Scan set up on a Split Screen. Rarely use the Side Scan.

But when I am Tournament Fishing on a New Lake I have never been on before, or I am searching New Areas, and need to cover a lot of area quickly. Then I am using the Side Scan as a main source of locating Brush Piles. So I would figure that the Down Scan is used more, once you know where you are going, and you have located most of the structure on your home lake. I know one thing I figured out, and gald I did my units this way. I started out having the money to buy a DI unit, but decided to wait, and save money until I could afford the SI. I think that the SI is the way to go.

But You Are RIGHT. once you figure out your Home Lake, the DI is used most of the time.



keith

I don't have a choice to vote for ... Rofl

My boat has two DF's ... a b/w 2d HB in the console, w/tdx mounted in the bilge --- and a Lowrance Elite 5DSI mounted in the bow, w/tdx on the TM. My DSI unit, even if transom mounted, would only work (produce good images) at speeds up to 40mph. My boat runs in the low/mid 50's @ WOT ... besides that, even at 40mph I would most likely be more concerned with where I was going & what was on the water in front of me, rather than trying to punch my way thru the menu buttons to mark a waypoint (or even keep tabs on what the screen was showing).

SI is great for showing you what's in the general area ...
DI is great for showing you what's in a specific section of that area ...
Standard Sonar is great for showing you what's in a select space of that specific section of that area.

SI & DI work better when combined with GPS capabilities. But, none of them are of much use if all you do is fish the same spots, on the same lakes, all the time. Yet, when faced with an unknown body of water, or area of a known one that you haven't fished before ... any of the three are better than none of them.

.. cp

Originally Posted by Creamlevel Kennels

BETTER Imagaes you will get from Lowrance. JMO
keith

I don't get that statement. I look at the Lowrance image at the top of page 2 in this thread and don't see any side scan images past 40 feet on the SS. Even in the bass pro catalog, the images for SS have black bars 60+ feet out in 20 feet of water. I don't see this issue with a HB unless there is an obstruction or the water gets deeper on one side.

BBC Boards: Humminbird SI Screen Captures from 0' to 10'

Originally Posted by crappiepappy

I don't have a choice to vote for ... Rofl

My boat has two DF's ... a b/w 2d HB in the console, w/tdx mounted in the bilge --- and a Lowrance Elite 5DSI mounted in the bow, w/tdx on the TM. My DSI unit, even if transom mounted, would only work (produce good images) at speeds up to 40mph. My boat runs in the low/mid 50's @ WOT ... besides that, even at 40mph I would most likely be more concerned with where I was going & what was on the water in front of me, rather than trying to punch my way thru the menu buttons to mark a waypoint (or even keep tabs on what the screen was showing).

SI is great for showing you what's in the general area ...
DI is great for showing you what's in a specific section of that area ...
Standard Sonar is great for showing you what's in a select space of that specific section of that area.

SI & DI work better when combined with GPS capabilities. But, none of them are of much use if all you do is fish the same spots, on the same lakes, all the time. Yet, when faced with an unknown body of water, or area of a known one that you haven't fished before ... any of the three are better than none of them.
.. cp

i think what you wrote above would be generally true but not always.giod post

Originally Posted by Stymie

I don't get that statement. I look at the Lowrance image at the top of page 2 in this thread and don't see any side scan images past 40 feet on the SS. Even in the bass pro catalog, the images for SS have black bars 60+ feet out in 20 feet of water. I don't see this issue with a HB unless there is an obstruction or the water gets deeper on one side.

BBC Boards: Humminbird SI Screen Captures from 0' to 10'

All of the images that are shown on the computer are computer imhanced images. I am basically talking about the Units Images, shown on the unit while you are out fishing. I had a HB-1198-SI and a HB-898-SI, after having HB people come out and set up, tinker with setting, they told me that was as good as it gets. So I sold the and bought HDS-10 and a HDS-7. Big differeene in the images at the Unit. when you looking at the unit on the water. Once you load them onto the computer they both look great. But seeing them on the computer is basically after the fact. I need to see the best image I can possible see. Just An Old Man's Opinion.


keith