Lowerance elite 7ti
New to Bass University and had a question about mapping a reservoir. Is it possible to actually map an entire body of water? Like actually save it and then say take it over my grandfather's and we can scroll through the whole thing? Study it? The elite7ti is my first ever sonar and I just bought it a week ago. Lol..so I'm clueless when it comes to any of this. Thank you in advance
DE-bassin. . .
Thank you for your membership to Bass University and thank you for the question. I have Humminbirds, however I'm sure this applies to Lowerance products as well; I use an SD card from Navionics (www.navionics.com/usa), and the lake maps on the SD card are very informative with depth contours, structure, etc.. The Navionics SD that I use is a "Navionics+" and I can download any body of water that I want to fish and then update the card with different bodies of water throughout the year if needed.. . . hope this helps.
I HAVE A LOWRANCE 12 CARBON . WHAT IS THE BEST TRANSDUCER TO USE, IM USING A TOTAL SCAN AT THE MOMENT
I have the same unit in the 9" Turn on Genesis live overlay and it will map everything! I fish smaller lakes that have no charts and this function is invaluable. The unit will save all the data and you can analyse it later just like you want. Put the largest size micro SD card the unit will take ( I think 32Gb) to make sure you have plenty of storage space. Keep in mind this will only map depth contours. Any structure or other way points you will need to add manually as you find them or choose them from your recorded charts based on the info. Hope that helps and feel free to ask anything. Ive had mine for about a year now so Ill answer anything I can for you.
Justin - your only other option with the Carbon 12 is the StructureScan 3D Transducer. This will give you more detail than the total scan transducer and a wider side scan range. Some people like the 3D feature and some don't so I'd rec checking one out in a marine store on demo mode first if you can.
