Thread: Sideimaging worth the cost?

Originally Posted by Chowan

u know, ive been thinking about the same thing. it would work if u can figuire how to stabilize the pole. it u come up with something let me know

Cane Pole mounted one onto a section of pvc mounted to an old deployable bowmount motorguide bracket I think......

CP...you still got pics of this for Chowan...??

Originally Posted by crappietyme

I am considering making the plunge. I have two concerns that is holding me up and hoping to hear from some experienced users.

1) I am leaning towards the 798 because of the cost difference in it and the 900 or 1000 series. I am concerned that the small 5" screen being too small making it difficult to see the details of structure and contours. I am sure the learning curve is challanging enough with a larger screen SI unit.

2) I regularly fish an area that I must travel thru a stump filled backawter area to get to. I am concerned with the larger ducer on the SI holding up thru the abuse.

Thanks in advance for any and all input.

I got the 797 when they first came out. I ended up hating it!! Mostly because of the smaller screen. I just took another dive but went up to the 997 because of the bigger screen. Getting around the bigger screen should not be any harder than the smaller screen 798.
Bigger screen has more pixels so that means a better picture. Ask Cane

I'd pass until you can afford at least a 997. The small screen stinks. Best you can to is scan to one side so you get the detail from one side on the full 5". Not sure about the 798 transducer, but the one that came with the original 797 did not give the same level of detail as the 997 and up.

Wannabe...

They are neat to have. I have a 797 w external mount gps antenna. I have the side imaging transducer on the transom and a 2-d tranducer on the trolling motor. I have two mounts one up front and one in the rear so I can take the display from front to back of the boat if need be. Searching an area it is in the back, fishing it is on the front. I have interlink cables that connects the two transducers. I can flip a switch up front and switch between my side scan on the transom or use the trolling motor transducer for pin pointing an area to vertical jig.

Originally Posted by rnvinc

Cane Pole mounted one onto a section of pvc mounted to an old deployable bowmount motorguide bracket I think......

CP...you still got pics of this for Chowan...??

The price was right on this particular mount. Easy to rig and deploy.

You can get transom mount clamp on brackets from BPS. JeffW has a clamp on mount that I liked.

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

The price was right on this particular mount. Easy to rig and deploy.

You can get transom mount clamp on brackets from BPS. JeffW has a clamp on mount that I liked.

CP...How far is the transducer out in front of your TM so that the TM doesn't block the Si beams...??

And how deep is the transducer in the water...??

Originally Posted by rnvinc

CP...How far is the transducer out in front of your TM so that the TM doesn't block the Si beams...??

And how deep is the transducer in the water...??

It is about 6-8 in front of TM and the PVC is 36 inches and about 18 inches below boat. Don't really remember the offset, but I used a paddle to measure the depth (shallow) and then set depth offset.