Quote Originally Posted by HERITAGECYCLES View Post
So, it's looking like screen size could be more useful than the maps?
In my personal opinion & experience .... absolutely !! And that's especially true when you're talking Side Imaging. I had a Down Imaging unit 5" screen and it was fine for my purposes. Then I broke it .... so I bought a Hook 7 unit. Soon as I take the time to get the settings on it as fine tuned as I had my Elite 5DSI unit set, then it's gonna be REALLY good. I can already see a big difference that 2" of screen makes. True, it's just a longer "history" of what I just ran over ... but, when you're busy watching 4 rods, that extra few seconds of images moving across the screen can make a difference (*especially when the boat is moving at 1+mph).

(*) consider this : when moving at 1mph, that's 1.47ft per second ... so if the image takes 10sec's to go across the screen, you have moved 14.7ft past the front edge of the cover or baitball that showed up on your screen. Even if it only takes 5sec's ... that's still over 7ft. I just use 1mph as a reference, because that's my normal jig Pushing speed.