Fishing Frenzy

It really is an undeniable fact that Hummingbird Side Imaging offers a far better perspective of the fishing place you've chosen. The most essential benefit of the Side Imaging is that it gives a 480 feet view side-to-side from your boat. Nevertheless, by simply counting on the Side Imaging, it's going to be difficult to understand at which depths they swim at. For that reason, I'm devoting this post to explain a little bit, the advantages of the DI technology.

The cost is the main benefit of a Down Imaging fish finder. The SI characteristic raises the price of a fish finding device by a lot. As an example, the 998c SI Combo is priced somewhere around 1,800 bucks, while the 958c DI Combo is just 1,300 dollars. To put it differently, by choosing the one with the DI feature only, you are going to take advantage of all the fish finding and navigation possibilities of the 998c SI, with no SI, but for 500 bucks less.

There aren't too many fish finders with SI to pick from. And all of them come with GPS and chartplotting options which you might not require. Clearly, the navigation and GPS features bring the price tag up. You will find though, quite many fish finders with only Down Imaging technology. And you can find simple models with DI technology, which feature only fish locating options, without Gps navigation or chartplotting. Best example to give here is the Humminbird 345 DI or 570 DI .

In case you're angling in-land, on lakes or rivers, a DI technology Humminbird fish finder will be fairly handy in distinguishing the bottom feeders. Specially in waters with lots of vegetation on the bottom, DI can help you understand quickly whether a particular contour detected by the sonar on the bottom is really a bass or a sunken piece of lumber. Many anglers disconsider DI technology mainly because it's comparable with ordinary imaging. But all the pictures that you'll attain with your Down Imaging technology are much clearer, kind of like photographs.

When you watch a ball of bait fish with the conventional sonar imaging, it will show up as a blob on the screen. In DI imaging, you can actually count the fish. In addition, in Down Imaging it is possible to observe the bigger fish that may be swimming close to that bait cloud feeding on them. DI technology will also permit you to discern the fish from the branches of a tree that's under water level or large formations of plant life.

Down Imaging also helps you have an understanding of better, the depth and the shape of certain sunken structures, rocks or bushes or trees. In DI technology, you will see how far from the surface they are located, and will also be capable to evaluate better where to position your lure.

To conclude this article, what is to point out about DI technology fish finders is that they are a lot cheaper than the ones which also include SI technology. They offer a better image resolution of the bottom and fish than the traditional view.