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No the other way around. I had the elite 7 first so I used it on the console. Then I bought a used hds 8 without a transducer, I put it up front, it uses the 2d transducer built into my xi5. I plan on swapping them. The structure scan stuff doesn't say lss2 just HD, I don't know. Either way it's a step up for me and the price was right

I am so envious ! Isn't this forum great ! I have learned a lot here.

I own a Lowrance hds 8 "non touch" that I am using in 2d sonar mode only. I just purchased an hd structure scan bundle with trans' never installed still in the box. (The box says HD, I am guessing it is between the lss1 and lss2??) I also have an hdi transducer that I am using on my elite 7 hdi My question: Do I still need to use the hdi ducer for di ? What if any software updates do I need? Will the addition of SI be super cool, or will I be disappointed? I know this is old tech, but it is new to me. I might buy the panoptix stuff in 10 or 15yrs when it's cheaper so don't for get about me Thanks

I would have just left it in there.

I would like to trap about 10, 5" chub or stone rollers right now😁

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Very nice ! Thank you for the report !

Just found this picture of grandpa.

For the 1st time in 20yrs we were out of Rottweilers, I guess my wife could not handle it, so....meet "Murk", he is 8 weeks and 20lbs. He already has a grumpy side, which I like. As it turns out his grandparents are our old dogs, it's kind of neat.

How did you do ? It was a nice day.

I don't hear anything, we wait for your report😁

I just drop stuff all the time, for no reason??

Interesting ! I will try it for sure. Question: why are they shallow? Is it a little warmer some days, maybe on over cast days? A couple weeks ago I never caught a fish until I found a brush pile at 36', I pecked around on a few that were in the 20's then I thought, what heck I will move deeper, and there they were. It was a bright day, no wind water temp 49. Thanks. This is going to be an interesting thread.

I am very new at this winter crappie stuff, this has worked well for me.... Drive around find some brush at several depths, 25, 35, 45. I like tall piles 4 to 8 ft or tall. Then use a drop shot and minnow, nose hook it, hover over the brush pile, drop that rig right down in the brush, then slowly lift it out, stop and hold every so often. The key is being able to stay vertical It is slow work but fun. You can use this rig for all kinds of habitat.

I found baby walleye, and a nursery for of small mouth. Not good, your not alone, really neat evening to be on the water. There was a cool change in air pressure in the evening, I thought for sure the fish would bite, nope. I probably should have thrown a jerk bait all day.

I saw this too, crazy ! I tried the gps/ fly blind thing once, almost died, never again ! I guess the good Lord still has something for me to do ?

I didn't mean to post 2 videos, just the April one sorry.

I don't know about garmin but on my lowrance It matters if the the target is moving or not, a moving fish will appear as a line relative to it's size, or rather density. I have caught these deep walleye before, I would guess they are going after bait that didn't make it through the cold, or sometimes it seems like the work under other feeding fish, picking up the stunned and wounded. I can always tell a drum by the way the vector toward the lure, those suckers can flat out feel the vibration of a falling spoon !

No no chirp. Thanks

I have a lowrance hds 8 non touch no lss, I am running it using the motor guide universal transducer in the trolling motor, 2d sonar only. I also have a lowrance hdi 7 elite, running the sonar/downscan factory traducer. My question (I don't have comparative pictures yet) the 2d sonar on my elite is way less pixelated than the hds. Are these hds units just like this or is the lack of the structure affecting the clarity? I have jacked around with the setting, it is usable, I guess I expect it to be at least as good as the elite? Also the view n the hds seems zoomed in more than the elite. Next time I am out I will get a video made. Thanks

I follow this guy on youtube, amazing stuff, good explanation too, and yes expensive. Someone needs to sell me their junky hds 12 for cheap and buy this.

So for about a year, I have been needing to replace the carpet in my boat, I guess I am lazy or busy. Looking at it yesterday, I will have to disassemble pretty much the whole boat to do it right, if I use a paint product, like "tuff coat" it will be $500 ish to do it myself. I have a 2003 Tracker deep v dual console. Would replaces boat carpet and what ind of money is a guy looking at to have it done? Thanks

Oh, just in case someone was wondering what the blue snow was on the screen, it is interference from the unit in the front.

Whatever ! Haha. Thanks John.

If it wasn't for a brush pile full of baby bass, and this hungry baby walleye. I pretty much suck. Here is a neat picture of the walleye returning to his home in near 60ft of water. He was maybe 10" long, as you can tell there are more. It is cool to know what they look like on the sonar.