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lowrance elite 5 dsi combo. i plan to keep running my conventional sonar also. so all total, this will be a lot electronics for a yak. basically a 5" color, and a 4" B/W lcd-type display.
i'll belieive i'll have option of using 5" display for chart only (and still have separate display for conventional sonar), making the chart easy to see. or if working pilings, turning the chart off in favor of the downscan next to conventional. or split screen cp/dsi if i can see comfortably.
if battery has low voltage, i can shut the color unit down and continue with my conventional sonar which is very low drain.
i see question re humminbird above, and not sure what to expect. structure scan is kind of cool for seeing in better detail what's down there. truth is, there's no much down there most of the time. usually sandy mud. but strucutre scan does differentiate a school of bait into individual fishes superior to regular sonar.
the drawback of seeing things in higher resolution is that fishes typically look like little dots and you will be less impressed with seeing a couple dots as compared to seeing nice big arches on a reg sonar. that's if you even notice a couple of tiny dots, especially if you're splitting a small display 3-ways into sonar/cp/ss. you may not believe your eyes that a couple little dots = good fishing opp.
there are positives to structure scan but i wanted to emphasize that some people would be disappointed in it as far as fish finding. you probly have better chance of identifying school of fish as being WP or spot vs baitfish using SS. me, i would enjoy a kayak trip using structure scan w/o even fishing. i hope it finds good application at the pilings but really not sure it will help catch more fish compared to decent conventional FF.
we'll see how this all fits on yak later this winter. i only have vague ideas of the units being side by side in unified mounting, a strengthened version of front/center arrangement i'm using now. there's a thread w/pics of that around here somewhere. i'll probly try to come up with a unifying sun visor over both units to prevent possibility of getting snagged in between the units.
i'll belieive i'll have option of using 5" display for chart only (and still have separate display for conventional sonar), making the chart easy to see. or if working pilings, turning the chart off in favor of the downscan next to conventional. or split screen cp/dsi if i can see comfortably.
if battery has low voltage, i can shut the color unit down and continue with my conventional sonar which is very low drain.
i see question re humminbird above, and not sure what to expect. structure scan is kind of cool for seeing in better detail what's down there. truth is, there's no much down there most of the time. usually sandy mud. but strucutre scan does differentiate a school of bait into individual fishes superior to regular sonar.
the drawback of seeing things in higher resolution is that fishes typically look like little dots and you will be less impressed with seeing a couple dots as compared to seeing nice big arches on a reg sonar. that's if you even notice a couple of tiny dots, especially if you're splitting a small display 3-ways into sonar/cp/ss. you may not believe your eyes that a couple little dots = good fishing opp.
there are positives to structure scan but i wanted to emphasize that some people would be disappointed in it as far as fish finding. you probly have better chance of identifying school of fish as being WP or spot vs baitfish using SS. me, i would enjoy a kayak trip using structure scan w/o even fishing. i hope it finds good application at the pilings but really not sure it will help catch more fish compared to decent conventional FF.
we'll see how this all fits on yak later this winter. i only have vague ideas of the units being side by side in unified mounting, a strengthened version of front/center arrangement i'm using now. there's a thread w/pics of that around here somewhere. i'll probly try to come up with a unifying sun visor over both units to prevent possibility of getting snagged in between the units.
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