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vic n
Read here.....for days!! You can learn so much going through the current and even older posts. The only thing you can't get is help on which unit to choose....oh, you'll get opinions by the ton, but the best way to choose is to try to go out with boaters who have some of these units and watch and learn. A bow unit is farther from your eyes than a console unit, so the larger screen you can get, the better you will be able to see it. To get an idea of where to locate a unit in front, you really need to sit up there and figure out where you will be able to look at it and not be tripping over it. You can run power up there and just hang the transducer in the water to use it. You don't even have to do a permanent mount until you get a few days of fishing to decide. One piece of advice.....If you pull out your factory transducer....make sure you attach a "pull" string or wire and pull it in when pulling out the old wire....it will save you a lot of hassle when you put a new transducer in.
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