Cheap Lowrance Elite 5 DSI Color Combo Fishfinder/Chartplotter

steveausten555

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Anybody have any experience with Lowrance Elite 5 Dsi? I bought one and have used it several times. Not having any luck marking fish. Been fishing 8-30 ft. Played around with the settings some. Not sure if i'm doing something wrong.
 

Lowe170

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Re: Cheap Lowrance Elite 5 DSI Color Combo Fishfinder/Chartplotter

Is it aluminum or stainless steel? :confused:
 

steelespike

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Re: Cheap Lowrance Elite 5 DSI Color Combo Fishfinder/Chartplotter

This is props.You need to start a thread in electronics.
 

aaronpatrick9

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Re: Cheap Lowrance Elite 5 DSI Color Combo Fishfinder/Chartplotter

I have an HDS7 with downscan which will give a similiar picture as your elite-5. Fortunately I have LCX-25 color graph also. When looking at both I noticed the fish do not look like the the fish you are use to seeing on a regular color graph. It will take some getting use to, but it is neat in that you see things much clearer than you did before. example a bait fish blob on a regular graph versus seeing individual fish in the bait ball, seeing something on the bottom you can actually see a fallen tree with the branches not just a blob on the bottom. If you you go to "You Tube" and type in Lowrance HDS or structure scan you will get a bunch of videos not only from Lowrance but guys that are using this equipment, and hopefully you will get a better idea of what your looking for. Good luck
 

steveausten555

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Re: Cheap Lowrance Elite 5 DSI Color Combo Fishfinder/Chartplotter

Thanks for the tip! I will check them out. You would think Lowrance would give you an instructional video or manual (longer than 4 pages) for $650.
 
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