Thread: Upgrade to side imaging?

What brand sonar is this pic taken from?

Sometimes I get caught up and am not paying attention. I just realized you are a guide. It should have dawned on be earlier because I read your post. You are a good fisherman. The interest in the down and side imaging is because Texoma is difficult at best to catch crappie in. To my knowledge there is not a crappie guide on Texoma. There are however lots of expert crappie fisherman every spring. It may be a bit judgemental but I don't consider someone a good crappie fisherman unless they are catching fish 12 months of the year. That being said, I easily consider you good. I'm not good yet. I have only managed 10 months of the year. Of course I get better results away from Texoma but the lake is only a mile away and with rare exception it is hard for me to drive 2 hours to fish somewhere else. I would of course make the exception to learn something new from a better fisherman.

This is a Garmin echomap 93sv with chirp. Sorry screen was dusty but clarity is unreal. I was running side view, down view and sonar.

$749.95



This?

yep

I have 3 hds 5's and it appears that the Elite model has downscan already built into it. The other two are lake insight models and it looks like I would have to purchase a diwnsczn module and transducer to make downscan work on them. I guess I had used depth finders for so long that I never bothered reading the instructions.

Originally Posted by TimY

Garmin 93SV with Chirp. 999.00

750.00 now

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Found another excellent deal on a Striker 7SV. After doing my research, the only differences are size, SD card capability and LakeVu contour maps. Smaller size is not an issue for me but I've never had a nice GPS unit on my boat before so I'm unsure how much I would use the contour maps. SD card slot would be very nice for when I eventually upgrade but not a deal killer for the price difference. Do you all have any opinions here on these two features?