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Great video, tells you a lot about how they hit.

Lost to many fish to snubbers, will not use them again.

Ya, I sure miss Louie and the Sea Hag. Best lake infro available. I still have louia's handmade Alpina Diamonds lure. Still works every spring.

Great post, very helpful. Now how about a Coho as compared to a Atlantic?

After all this it will be the Garmin GPSMAP 1040. 10" screen, going to use a chirp thru hull transducer. Also going to add the GVC 10 side screen with another thru hull transducer. I want to thank every one for there opinions. Main difference was seeing all the units at Cabelas in Buffalo and gettinbent for saying " check out Garmin"

They had two units, the 5" dragon fly and 9".

Went to the New Cabelas store in Buffalo, GREAT! they had all the units except for Furno. Garmin did have the best picture of them all. They had all the 8" -12" screens I was looking for. Just makes the choice even tougher.

On the topic of fish arches, my sensitivity is set between 84% and 100% , depends if the broadband sounder is working. That is another problem with my Lowrance, Broadband works when it feels like it. On the other items mentioned, have gone through all the setting and speed is set on max. Does Raymarine have the track feature for GPS? Has anyone tried the side scan for fish or bait on the lake?

First to all that have replied, Thank You. To answer Gamble, The Lowrance unit does not have enough detail. In the river you see the archs, but on the lake, bait does look like clouds, but fish look like dots or marks, not arches. One friend of mine has a Furno and says he can tell the size of fish and see them moving. Yankee, alot of guys do have Hummingbirds and your screen shots where great . Does the GPS have a track feature? (which shows your location at all times) First units we looked at where Hummingbirds. I really like the 360. (still not out of the running) Raymarine: I just saw the CP 200 on there web page and thought it would be great for strippers in the river and bait/fish on the lake. when we follow the track back to work a area, fish move side to side. Thought it would help in staying on top of fish.

Currently looking for a new unit to replace a Lowrance 113 (6 yrs old) . I fish the Hudson for strippers and Ontario for everything else. As you all know we look for bait and fish, People tell me they can see huge hooks (Kings) and also they see pods of bait with fish over top or the see fish move. Furno looks good but they do not have the down or side imagining, Raymarine has the new CP200 side imagaing with shallow and deep settings. Not sure there as good as Furno. Hummingbird started me off on the down and side, plus the now they have the 360. All I can say for sure is a want a 9"-10" screen and want the best sonar I can get. Lowrance GPS was great, had contour line which showed the depth and also showed the shallows in the river and the tracking feature was great. We use tracking to work a spot. Someone told me there GPS did not track, he had to use way-points to make a line. (think it was a Eagle). This site is great for information, there are Pro and weekenders with a lot of good information.

Great job, I have to get one of those cameras.

Nice job, That is what is all about.I need to change fish finders, fish don't look like that on my Lowrance. Be up there Saturday, hopefully we can hit them in 200-300 FOW. Sounds like meat is the ticket. Meat work great for use last week. 5 Skippy's , 16 Lb king and a lake trout all 130 -150 down in 350-600 FOW.

Nice Job, we hit a 10# king and 12# Steelhead in 280' FOW between 8:00 to 10:00 on riggers with spoons. Came into 140' and hit two 22# kings on spoons 2:00 to 3:00, this time on a Dipsy 1setting 300' back. Sunday one 12# king on the Dipsey again 300' back.