Originally Posted by
keeganzpapa
Todd.. I just wanted to get this in. Read up on side scan. If you at all can afford it get one with it. I wish I had spent the extra money. The down scan sonar and down imaging shows what is directly below your boat within the cone and how deep, which could be anywhere around "down there", or what you have just passed over, which, when in a canoe, it is very dangerous to turn around backwards to fish for, that is why I wanted the transducer as far forward as possible, so hopefully I can fish forward sitting while in the canoe and just drop the lines straight down basically. The side scan tells you they are either on your right, or left, how deep and how far away from the boat, (as I understand it) while still giving you the down scan imaging and sonar features. I would trade up in a heartbeat.