Thread: Opinions wanted about Lowrance Elite 7 CHIRP

I've got the elite 7 ti with chirp and the total scan ducer and a navionics hot maps chip in it. I love the unit but sometimes it acts up when the cords get really hot. Other than that it's a gen 3 with chirp, ss, ds. Processer is very fast, and, being a cartography junkie and gis afficiando, Lowrance has the ball in their court with 3rd party mapping platforms.

Oh yeah, and it helps me catch fish too.

Don't do it. Internal gps can't not keep up with itself. Very frustrating working structure, locating waypoints. Price is not worth the headaches, reason I know is due to my experience with the chirp 9.

Check out the Garmin they have some cheaper unit that are Great !!!!!

I'm with Meatgetter, if you going on the low end go with Garmin, the Stryker series is getting very good reviews!!!

Thanks to all who have responded. After further review the unit Bass Pro had on special came with the Lake Insight Pro HD Lake Maps card. I've never had a depth finder w/ a SD card but I thinking Navionics maps had the best mapping for the lakes in Ms. Garmin w/ LakeVu may be great, I just haven't seen one in operation. Maybe I need to go to one of the places they have the units on display and play with it for awhile. My plans are to get two, (1) with at least a 7'' display with sidescan at the wheel and the other downscan w/ chirp for the front. Both Garmin and Lowrance have these in 7'' displays just wish Hummigbird did so I could really be undecided. I really do appreciate everyone's comments. It's just a 1 time chance that the wife will let me spend my own money on something I have wanted and I sure don't want to screw this up.

Humminbird with a Lakemaster south east version 4 card in it is the best for the MS lakes, insight for Lowrance is a close second.

Garmin maps are better than both of the other two !!!!!! I have used them all......

Decision made so far is to pass on the Elite 7 chirp. Don't want a unit with slow processing speed. Useless and Frustration are the 2 things I like to leave on the bank so I'm taking in account all the great info all are providing to me.