Great stuff. Good to know about the DI.

I don’t know why I didn’t do this first but I looked up the manual for the Lowrance Elite. It looks like there is a way to adjust the screen sizes. I think I’m leaning toward Lowrance but will confirm in store. Shucks, I have to go play some more. ☺

Thanks everyone!

Good to know on the older hooks.

I have an old 7″ lcx16 that allows me to resize the chart to make the 2D sonar larger. Playing with the demo units in stores, I could not get the Elite 9 to allow me to resize so I’m wondering if anyone with an Elite unit has figured it out. I’m not seeing much online with that feature. Garmin had it as one of the first things to do when setting up a custom combo.

To answer Mr. Beads. I plan to rely on my partner up front when trolling forward and using the terrova puck for the bow sonar, but I don’t anticipate doing it much as we back troll with a transom unit 75% of the time and cast 20% of the time. Forward trolling with boards is maybe 5% of my outings roughly. When we do, I plan to make small adjustments with the remote based on what I see on the back unit if necessary, but my partner still wants to see a sonar up front, and I prefer to not mount an additional puck.

I really wonder if the rumors are true that the Lowrance DI is more detailed than the Garmin version too.

Yes. Running a tiller. I’m putting a basic Helix 5 CHIRP gps on the front to link with a Terrova. The way we fishing I don’t really need the two sonars to match or communicate. I back troll often so, I want the rear sonar to have the better features and want to save a few dollars by avoiding the MDI, DI, and SI on the bow. When I do foward troll, I am typically in the back watching the sonar near the tiller.

Thanks for the input. Keep it coming.

I had similar thoughts about the four screens. I figured, if it had the ability to size each screen differently, then i could run SI and DI larger with the map to watch for just way points and 2D sonar smaller for bottom density. Seems like with DI, 2D sonar is getting less and less necessary.