Im looking to upgrade my old lcr4000 on my 15' hydrosport bass boat. i know its old but its always told me how deep the water is even on plane. it never showed 1 fish. It has a shoot threw transducer. on my other boat its aluminum boat i have a 300tx w/ transom mounted transducer. I hated the 300tx because no matter where i put it on the back. it always stopped reading as soon as to get about 1 or 2 mph. i also tried other trans mount transducers.
So i guess what im saying is i want a to have side imaging and still be able to see how deep the water is while on plane. Ive been thinking about the helix 5 and also the 7. Its just $200 more for the 7 over the 5, from what i read thats a lot of money for just 2" of screen.
I also read the helix 9 is going to be hard to beat for under $1000. it is suppose to have a lot more options added over the 5 & 7. im still not sure i want to go that high for a depth finder on 1985 bass boat. I do want to upgrade to a nice 20-22' key west or make. but im just dreaming right now about a new boat.
Ill be using this boat in deer point lake, bay county, florida. For being a very popular lake here in florida i cant find any maps for it. but ill be fishing the bay in summer a lot. so i guess ill be using it 75% of the time in saltwater bay and the other 25% lake fishing.