Saturday, September 8, 2012

One Or Two Good Points About The DI Depth Finders

By Jorg Bessenschoft


It truly is undeniable that Hummingbird Side Imaging gives a better perspective of the fishing position you've chosen. With SI, you may conveniently see where the fish are in relation to the boat. Nonetheless, DI possesses its own good points. So, I am devoting this post to explain a bit, the positive aspects of the DI Hummingbird Fish Finders.

The very first benefit with regards to Down Imaging depth finders which I need to describe here, is the price tag. The Side Imaging capability brings up the price of a fish finding system by a lot. A decent example which I'm able to offer here is the fact that the Humminbird 1198c SI Combo costs 2,800 bucks, while the Humminbird 1158c DI Combo model costs $1,930. If you do the math, that is almost a 900 dollars big difference.

The Humminbird company does not offer a lot of fish finding units with SI technology. And all of them feature GPS and chartplotting features that you may not need. Obviously, the navigation and GPS options bring the price up. You can find though, quite many fish finders with only DI. And of course, you will find units which don't have any navigation capabilities, making them quite low-priced. Best example to give here is the Humminbird 345 DI or 570 DI units.

If you are angling in-land, on rivers or lakes, a DI fish finder will be fairly helpful in distinguishing the bottom feeding fish. Particularly in rivers with no shortage of plant life on the bottom, Down Imaging will help you comprehend immediately whether a selected contour caught by the transducer on the bottom is really a bass or a sunken tree trunk. Down Imaging performs generally like the basic imaging of a fish finder. However, the images which form on the display are much clearer, very similar to photographs.

In basic imaging, a ball of bait seems like a cloud or sometimes like a darker coloured stain. DI can even allow you to count the fish in that bait ball. You actually see each individual. Additionally, in DI technology it will be possible to see the greater fish that could be swimming close to that bait cloud feasting on them. Also, in DI it is much easier to differentiate the fish which are hidden amongst the branches of a tree underwater.

DI also helps you comprehend better, the depth and the form of certain sunken structures, rocks or bushes or trees. In Down Imaging technology, you can observe how far from the surface they are, and you'll be able to determine better where to put the bait.

Overall, a fish finder with only DI is considerably less expensive than one with both Side Imaging and Down Imaging. DI technology is going to give you an extremely sharper perspective of the bottom than the basic sonar view.




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