Need some input from those "In The Know"

**"G"** · 08-18-2010, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by Wannabe...

Let me bottom line this for ya.

Skip the HDS5 and 797 / 798. Screen is just too small to be useful.

Get you a used 997 (used) or minimum of 898 if you go new. PM Billbob. Dang good price, plus he's a snappy dresser and can mambo like no other here.

Now, let me draw another line and let you read below that....

If money was no object, I'd chunk my 997, get me an HDS 8 for the console, HDS 7 for the Front and an LSS-1 and be happier than DD at an open bar with a day off the next day.

Of course, $ is an object. There's the rub. The SI and mapping of the HDS is superior to the H'bird, plus the GPS works like a GPS should work. Don't belive me....ask Billbob, the well dressed mambo king why he's selling his for a good price. On top of that, you'll fiind spotty reports of Lowrance unit seals being bad and getting water inside and you can find all kinds of Steven King type horror stories of Lowrance customer service.

Were I fishing for a living, I'd have 2 HDS 10s, LSS1s and a Backup HDS10 and backup LSS1.

Wannabe...

If Wannabe was fishing for a living he would be broke, nekid, and hungry....just saying. :D

**satdoc1** · 08-18-2010, 06:12 PM

That be the truth G3!

**"G"** · 08-18-2010, 06:14 PM

Can anybody see any differance in Wannabes catch rate since he got side imaging? I can't.

**oldwhiskers** · 08-18-2010, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by G3 Fisherman

Can anybody see any differance in Wannabes catch rate since he got side imaging? I can't.

Crack that whip G3 :D

**maachuu** · 08-18-2010, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by G3 Fisherman

Can anybody see any differance in Wannabes catch rate since he got side imaging? I can't.

huh, is it suppose to help you catch more fish ? thought it was just to let me see more of the fish that I am not catching :D

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**Wannabe...** · 08-19-2010, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by G3 Fisherman

If Wannabe was fishing for a living he would be broke, nekid, and hungry....just saying. :D

Yeah, well...I'm working' on it. Two thirds of the way there already.

Besides, you're a geezer. Pfft.

Wannabe...

**creekslick** · 08-19-2010, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by Wannabe...

Yeah, well...I'm working' on it. Two thirds of the way there already.

Besides, you're a geezer. Pfft.

Wannabe...

What are you doing up so early?:D

**DonDon** · 08-19-2010, 07:30 AM

but thats cause he's been having folks fishing with him that know how to fish and know what they're looking at on the Lake map. :D Ain't never seent no body that couldn't look at a lake contour map and not be able to find a channel. Plum stewpit if ya ask me

**Minnerman** · 08-19-2010, 07:53 AM

DD now I ain't no great big WB fan, but in his defense, the said channel you were referin to wasn't on the navionics maps. It stopped bout a 1/2 mile from where he was wantin to find it. It wasn't even on my eyephone navionics map.

**Minnerman** · 08-19-2010, 07:57 AM

Another thing Maachuu, ifn you ain't never had an HDs you'll never know what it's like. I'm happy with my 997. Whatever you choose you will be amazed with the technology.

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