Quote Originally Posted by HeyCharlie View Post
BTW where do you have your 798 mounted? I have mine near front, but SI (VIEW) is hard to see from drivers seat. I may it move to the side of and just to rear of front casting chair- so that with quick turn I can better see the SI and slow troll with OB looking for structure . ( Please do not get me wrong-- I can see depth-fish finder and All other "views" clearly- SI returns are just so small because it is displaying SUCH A large wide area)
On the jon boat, I have the HDS-7 mounted near the tiller (back) very easy to see and adjust, especially with the big screen. I have a Garmin up front that I will probably replace with a Lowrance HDS-5 (or 7 if I have the money) so I can network them. On the other boat, I put the Humminbird 798ci SI on the console, up front is a Lowrance fishfinder (don't remember the model, but I bass-fished and only used it to see how deep I was anyway). On that boat, I will probably replace the front deck unit with another HB 798 as money allows.

With my limited experience with these technical goodies, my thoughts were to use the sidescan while looking for fish and structure (usually at the tiller or console) and switch to 2D/Downscan on the trolling motor up front while actually fishing.

Mike