What sonar are you using

[plittle2]

Upgrading from an old Lowrance x-65. What should I be looking at. Is there one unit out there that appears to have most of the market.

[Wrexxer]

I have a Lowrance LMS522 iGPS not the newest sonar out there but i thought I would review it anyways, I'm impressed with so far but I'm still learning to use it. I have the Navionics gps maps and they are crazy accurate, all the rocks and stumps are bang on!

The sonar is pretty nice the color screen precise and help do see what texture is the bottom....seems to be very accurate even when really deep waters. Did really good for lakers a couple weeks back.

I was sold on the gps part I'm still amazed how accurate the gps are.

I can only compare to and older eagle and hummingbird models


I'm still getting used to it so the review is pretty lame!

I actually think it very similar to the x65

[RJ]

I'm running the new Lowrance HDS5 on my boat.....

I'm still playing around with it a bit but am very happy with it.....I should probably spend an hour on the water without rods in the boat so I'll actually dial it in instead of just picking up a rod....

I found it to be outstanding for trolling....and the GPS unit is mint.

RJ

[troutnmuskiehunter]

I'm running the new Lowrance HDS5 on my boat.....

I'm still playing around with it a bit but am very happy with it.....I should probably spend an hour on the water without rods in the boat so I'll actually dial it in instead of just picking up a rod....

I found it to be outstanding for trolling....and the GPS unit is mint.

RJ

DITTO!!....I also have the HDS-5 and it's awesome!

[moonshine]

I'm running the new Lowrance HDS5 on my boat.....

I'm still playing around with it a bit but am very happy with it.....I should probably spend an hour on the water without rods in the boat so I'll actually dial it in instead of just picking up a rod....

I found it to be outstanding for trolling....and the GPS unit is mint.

RJ

I have an older Hummingbird 141c, but i have seen the HDS5 in action in a fellow FH'ers boat and it is the cats butt for sure. I was extremely impressed with its performance and abilities.

[RJ]

Here is a screen shot from June on Lake Ontario....I was able to pick up my cannonballs and my Dipsys.....very nice.

[cprince]

Here is a screen shot from June on Lake Ontario....I was able to pick up my cannonballs and my Dipsys.....very nice.

Is that the solid lines at 40 and 50?

Craig

[LeGrand]

I still use my old portable Eagle 6000 digital. Black and white details, but heck it works.

[Wrexxer]

I was debating on the HDS-5 as well but they didn't support de navionics chip which I love...Plus I saved a couple of $$ hehe...

Sometimes I wish I had the HDS-5 since the 522 is freaky in weedy water, for example if I'm in 7 feet of water but weeds are 6 feet it freaks out for the first 20sec...

I thought the compromise was worth it for the navionics maps since I have friends that have cottages @ 32 mille lake and La lievre and NAvionics provided both of these in High Def mapping. I thought that would be better than losing a prop....

[moonshine]

I was debating on the HDS-5 as well but they didn't support de navionics chip which I love...Plus I saved a couple of $$ hehe...

Sometimes I wish I had the HDS-5 since the 522 is freaky in weedy water, for example if I'm in 7 feet of water but weeds are 6 feet it freaks out for the first 20sec...

I thought the compromise was worth it for the navionics maps since I have friends that have cottages @ 32 mille lake and La lievre and NAvionics provided both of these in High Def mapping. I thought that would be better than losing a prop....

Lowrance claims that the HDS-5 does support the Navionics card.

[beachburger]

Humminbird 997c SI at the console and an basic Eagle FishEasy at the bow. Will replace the Eagle one of these days but it works just fine for depths and bottom structure.

The Humminbird is a very nice unit. I've burned a lot of gas this year just idling around watching the side imaging do its thing.

[RJ]

Here is a screen shot from June on Lake Ontario....I was able to pick up my cannonballs and my Dipsys.....very nice.

Is that the solid lines at 40 and 50?

Craig

Cannonballs are at 39 and 50...

Dipsys are at 47 and 63.....

The HDS 5 supports Nav chips.....I have it in mine.

They do make a non-GPS model though....that would simply be a graph not a combo...perhaps that's what you were looking at.

RJ

[Andy_L]

HDS 5 here also....fantastic unit in my opinion. Works great with Navionics

[Wrexxer]

I guess I'm confused last summer when I was looking around I thought for sure it wasn't supported...hmm...

Sucky...

But the 522 has been good to me! heheh