Thread: Humminbird 596c HD DI???

I like the DI. I have a 7 something combo. You can actually see the fish and they actually look like fish. Trees look like trees and stumps look like stumps. Not grey or colored blobs.

It is pretty easy to use. There is a bar that pops up at the top and you use the arrow buttons to either go across the menu headings or the down arrows to get into the sub menus.

You have three buttons that you can program to be short cuts to your favorite screens. Otherwise you can hit a button that scrolls through the different screens one by one.


In my mind a fish finder needs to tell me the temp, depth, it needs to be able to differntiate whether the bottom is mud or rock or gravel, and differntiate between things that are part of the bottom and things that are sticking up off the bottom (ie. the difference between a hump or boulder and a tree stump). I know you said you have a handheld gps but having it on the unit and showing speed is so handy. Plus it is very easy to mark stuff on the screen. Mine you can pause the scroll and move the cursor to whatever you want to mark and mark it even if you have drifted 50 feet past what it is you want to mark, it will mark that spot way over there without being right over it.

Thanks for the feedback smashdn! I think I may pull the trigger on this unit. Sounds like anyone can set it up and tell what is going on. It is a far cry from looking at little boomarangs on a tiny bw screen! Much abliged for the help...

Terry