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| Does anybody have any experience with Lowrance DSI (DownScan Imaging).
I'm wonder if it a real improvement over "traditional" sonar displays. The pictures in the ads and on their website look pretty impressive. I wonder how that translates into the real word.
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Location: Waconia,MN | Im wondering the same thing. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Me too??? |
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Location: Grand Rapids MN | I don't have one but I remember some of the differences/benefits of DI with one being how the sonar beam is emitted and the picture displayed. Traditional sonar is a cone whereas down imaging is a narrow beam. While fishing breaks/edges you get some amount of false bottom (depeding on steepness, depth, etc) so you could miss bottom hugging fish or ones just at the transition whereas DI will give an image of the bottom and break edge showing those bottom details.
I had seen a tournement walleye angler video show a side by side of 2d and DI of this very example while prefishing. That really stuck with me since I walleye fish a fair amount and fish similar structure. Some day I will pull the trigger on one of these new units. I would really like SI as well.
Hope this helped some. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | This should give you a pretty good idea what the Lowrance down scan imaging looks like, next to a sonar image.
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Location: West Metro, MN | I have seen it in action for a few hours in a friends boat on a lake with a lot of timber in it and it was pretty awesome to be able to so clearly differentiate logs from branches from fish. I haven't seen it in action on more a more traditional rooks/weeds lake. That said if I had the extra funds I would get it for sure. |
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