Thread: What’s Humminbird Doing?

Gen 2s going on sale !! get ready you know they go something good coming out! Just bought a unit back in the spring I should’ve know something would take its place!

The only way to stay current in the fishing electronics world is to upgrade every year, ifn you can afford it! Me......at my age I'm staying right where I am 'cause you'll never be up to date!! I'll still be using the Gen 2's when they're dinosaurs!

Originally Posted by Slabprowler

Gen 2s going on sale !! get ready you know they go something good coming out! Just bought a unit back in the spring I should’ve know something would take its place!

I bought (3) Mega 9’s in May. I’m hoping they come out with a transducer and software I can use with the unit I have now


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I'm a late adopter to new technology. Still running the legacy series, 895 and 899.
I was planning on upgrading to the Gen2 10" units until their competition came out with new gizmos. Now I'll wait and see what happens. I suspect in 5 years things will stabilize.

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What's H'bird doing? Running behind and playing catch up! Wish I'd have gone with Lowrance or Garmin to start with instead of Birds....

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

What's H'bird doing? Running behind and playing catch up! Wish I'd have gone with Lowrance or Garmin to start with instead of Birds....

Grass always looks greener on the other side . lol!

I went from HB to Lowrance a few years ago as the Lowrance was supposed to be "all that and then some" and after using it for a while I was not so impressed and wished I had not made the switch, went back to HB and in my opinion is where I belong for my uses.

Not knocking Lowrance or any other brand just HB is what seems to work best for me all the way around.

I learned that sometimes when something does pretty much everything you want it to do you may be better off just to be satisfied and sit pat where you are.

[QUOTE=Dirt track;3722553]I bought (3) Mega 9’s in May. I’m hoping they come out with a transducer and software I can use with the unit I have now

Sorry but the new mega+ Gen3 transducers won't work with your mega units you bought in May. Software upgrade won't be coming as they boosted the internal hardware to increase the power needed by new transducers.

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

What's H'bird doing? Running behind and playing catch up! Wish I'd have gone with Lowrance or Garmin to start with instead of Birds....

You can always sell your Birds and move on to one of the units you mentioned if your not happy. I agree with "the grass is always greener" statement.
HB still has best side image, their DI and 2D are hard to beat with some of their newer transducers. Livescope looks good if your fishing for tarpon or swimming humans. Haven't seen any real good videos using it crappie fishing that make me get excited about what it shows, just my 2 cents.