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Help Rigging A Friends Counsel Boat
I am helping a friend rig a boat Alumacraft with counsel, he fishes from the bow. I picked up a Lowrance HDS 7 for him so far. Here are my thoughts:
1) Rig the HDS 7 on the dash ( for trolling crankbaits and just surveying spots before fishing) 2) Pick up a unit for the bow preferably color I am thinking one of the new DSI units but thinking it might not be a good choice as with the bow mount the speeds would be too slow for DI to show nice images. If i went this route. My question is this what color unit do you feel would be a good one on th bow and yet be reasonably priced? Thoughts are appreciated Gary |
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Why not get another HDS7?
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Does he want the bow and helm unit networked? Is he willing to have "long term goals" and possibly buy a piece of equipment as time and money allow to get to the goal?
With the long term goal of everything networked and having DSI, I'd probably go with a HDS 5 or 7 on the bow, add Structure Scan with an extra transducer (one for the bow mount motor and one for the transom), and an extra mount for the unit on the helm so you don't have to split screen a unit when trolling. If networking does not matter to him. I'd probably look at the Elite 5 DSI chartplotter / sonar combo, as a stand alone bow mount unit. I'd still add the extra mount to the helm and use that unit as my GPS while trolling. Just my $.02 Ray |
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You mention scan for maybe the front unit, but the DI are limited to very slow speed, as I understand, so would need to be basically bow fishing like with jigs, etc. to get DI detailed images. So if you want scanning, going with structure scan is the only option(speaking of Lowrance as my example) which adds $600 to system cost. Why not look at returning the single HDS7 and get a complete system, HDS7/HDS5, with Insight and structure scan. Running $2248 at Cabelas, then deduct Lowrance rebates of $200. or maybe 2 HDS7's and Basemap/structure scan at $2547. Just throwing out some suggestions.
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