07-25-2010, 03:53 AM
I have a 997si. I really enjoy it as a fishing tool. Much of what it displays you will learn what it looks like and what it is with experience. For example you can scan the face of the dam at willard bay and see the christmas trees scattered around the bottom by the light pole. You can see the roads the scrapers used to drive up to put the dirt in on the dam. The lake has a lot of stuff down there and it seems like the fish dont need much structure to hold them. The unit works best on ;my boat when i am trolling with the kicker. The main engine throws a lot of bubbles and tends to block some of the view on the engine side from that interference. Also the combination of the gps, sonar and side imaging is just too much multi-tasking for the screen. By the time you divide the screen up to display the side image, sonar and gps you sacrifice the usefulnes of each of the functions. I would rather have passed on the gps and put in a dedicated gps unit with its own screen. Anyway thats my take on it. Enjoy the unit
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