Ska backs and any other experts on side imaging. I'm really thinking about getting one of these. Don't want anything bigger, not about the money , but more of what I plan to do with it. My 2 boats that I use , neither has a console. My "big" boat is an old 16' Bass Tracker that I gutted and built all aluminum floors and front deck with a tiller yamaha. My little boat is a Bass Hunter EX that I use in small state lakes and at Sardis during spawn. So I don't have room for a big unit right now. Hope to get a fancy glitter boat in the next few years, but not any time soon.
All that said what I thought about doing is mounting the 598 on my front deck with the ducer on my trolling motor. I search the forms on the 598 and seems it would fit what I'm after. Figure I could buy an extra mount and ducer and just swap it back and forth. I wouldn't use it to scan unless I was running the trolling motor anyway. What do you think?