Thread: Pictures of my LSS-2 bow mount pole form Fishing Specialties

Hmmm, that could be made to work with the 360.

That definitely adheres to the KISS rule......pretty neat......and could be another 360 mount option. Is there anything to keep it from popping out if it bumps something.

There's not really anything in this one from keeping it from popping out, but he designed it pretty well... it fits loose but tight. It's metal on metal and I think if I hit something it would tear up the pole before it popped out. The metal on metal turns really easy so I wrapped a round of black tape to keep it from turning so easily. There is a lock if you want it too to keep it from turning, this probably keeps it from popping out, but it also might keep you from pulling it out quickly if you need too... He also makes one with a spring on bottom in case you hit something. But, with this huge lss-2 he thought it might wobble with the spring on the end so I went with a solid pole. Hopefully I can keep an eye on the finder in time, but an accident will happen eventually, I'm sure. I guess I should order another pole just in case and he quits making them.

If you had it on the driver's side, you might be able to see an upcoming accident quickly enough to take action.

I take it out when I'm at the wheel and use a 998 Humminbird at the console. I wanted good down imaging but didn't want to give up side imaging so I put structure scan on the front. They got pretty good deals on the hds units right now, so I went for that. I wanted to compare the two brands anyways. And these things have such a good resale I figured I couldn't lose much. 1200 after rebate for hds8 structure scan so I went for it. A few days later a used hds8 with lss 1 box sold for 1330 on e-bay. I guess everybody hasn't heard that the prices have come down.... It'll be a while before I can learn each unit good enough to say which is my preference, but so far Humminbird wins hands down for side imaging of the bottom, and Lowrance wins hands down for picking up fish in the water or on bottom. I did a lot of research and thought I'd get the best of both this way, but now I got 2 units to learn that wont link instead of just one.... ha ha sometimes I think too much... I think....

so it looks like you are saying in si mode that the lowrance picks up fish better out side the water column right?

That's the picture I got the first time I used it. We were fishing for big schools of black crappie that are roaming around this power plant lake in the warm water end. Well on the hummingbird all that we could see is small white dots when they came by. We could see them, but they were very small dots. The HDS8, when the school was coming I could see their shadow on the bottom before the fish returns even got to the screen, it was kinda like 3-d compared to the 998. Fish returns showed up much better on the Lowrance, and after I play with the settings a little I'm sure it'll get better. The HDS did have a "foggy" look to it. I'm not sure if this is due to the color I was using or what. But I looked in the users manual and in the manual the very first picture was foggy looking like mine, so I guess it may be their nature. I'm used to that clean crisp picture look of the 998. Hopefully there is some settings I can play with to get rid of this, I've only had it out once and didn't have time due to fishing to mess with it much.(and I forgot my manual)....

don't blame you for fishing ,after all that is why we buy all these toys.when you do get a chance ,take a pic of both units if you can sorter like you describe and happy fishing