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Needing a couple units for the new boat. I've always had Humminbird Core series with no real complaints. I'm trying to keep it budget friendly this time as I have to by 2 units, terrova, and batteries. Gps function is very important to me, I troll/control drift a ton. Thoughts??
im interested in this as well
I have an Elite 7 Chirp on the front with the skimmer transducer and I am very happy with it, The down image is very good. I have a HDS 7 touch on the console. It is the only thing that I have to compare to. These are my first hi tech fish finders. The last Humminbird I had was a square pixel 4000.
Stick with the Birds!
I am interested as well. I just bought a boat with an older lowrance unit. I have been debating about placing a nice unit on the console and moving it to the trolling motor. I talked to several different salesmen at Bass Pro and they all said to go with the lowrance over the hummingbird. They said it did more and had better images and showed up the fish/bait clearer. One did say the hummingbird was better straight out of the box preset, but the lowrance would do as well if not better with a little tweaking. I noticed that lowrance also dropped their price to match the hummingbirds to compete as well.
6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. don't let the bird boys mislead you, they just don't know how to tweak the settings so they think the bird is the cat's meow straight out of the box :Rofl
Raymarine Dragonfly blows them both away
Actually the birds offer more advanced settings that Lowrance don't. Much more bang for your buck. Easier to use a navigate settings. Great customer service. The Lowrance is advertising a Chirp unit without a true Chirp transducer. Dragonfly is a good sonar but lacks in navigation ability. Garmin is better sonar than all three but also lacks in the navigation and network ability. All have strong and weak areas but Humminbird is most consistent and stand behind their products.Quote:
Originally Posted by ibmack