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No matter which unit you choose look up the digital oasis online out of FL. I bought my Hummer 587 I believe it's called. Not many people know about the 587 but it's almost same as the 597, it has GPS, DI, it's color and it will hold the lake chips if you choose to spend the extra $100 for the cards it takes to add contours to your finders map. My unit goes for about $450 most places but I got it for $417 and if I'd been patient I'd have gotten it for $389! They are cheaper than any other place I know of due to FL not having a sales tax and they was offering free shipping so the $417 was what I paid outright. If you want bigger screens and SI your going to be looking to spend more $ though. The SI units are tougher to read while the DI units are like looking at your cane tops 1st hand, there's not doubt what your looking at once you see one on the DI screen. The fish are harder to see on the DI but you can scroll through the screens to one that's got a split screen of the DI on bottom and the color graph on top which is what I use a lot. Mounting you sonar can be tricky too. I drilled the dreaded holes in the back of my fiber glass skeeter thinking it would work, it does fine idling around but won't read when running down the lake??? Several folks have told me you never know how they will read when you mount them back there but most do alright, mine must have been the exception.
Now somebody mentioned having a good finder on back of boat and a cheapo on front, that's my deli ma. I know what brush looks like on my older hummer on front so it's not too difficult to fish off the front not being able to see my back finder but I do find myself walking to back of the boat to sneak a peak at the newer finder, no job for me now so money for another finders out for now!!!
By the way I know there's guys selling stuff on here, like say Big River Marine and i'm sorry if they can't match prices but the digital Oasis is hard to beat. I'd buy from them in a heart beat if they could match prices and I was a looking. Hope all this was of help, I dumped brush earlier in the winter and lost my coordinates from my cell phone due to water damage, having that unit and knowing the general area was nice yesterday scoring me a mere 9 crappie but it helped.
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