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This subject might have been beat to death, but I need to make a decision. I recently replaced an FCV292 with a 295 and am hauling the boat next week for bottom paint. I have not changed the transducers and am still running separate 50 kHz and 200 kHz 1kw transducers from about 1999, when my boat was built. I need to decide if I should replace the transducers and if so, with what. From what I have learned so far, I'm looking at either a B260 or a B265LH if I change. I fish southern CA, year round, so sometimes bottom and sometimes pelagic fish and sometimes hooping for lobster. By law, we can't fish the bottom in more than 300 feet, and when the tuna are around, I'm really only looking at the top 250 feet no matter how deep the water is, so I don't need the added depth capability of more than 1kw. What I'm interested in is using the full capabilities of the FCV295 to get the most detail in the picture, like discerning fish laying on the bottom, finding spawning squid beds and locating structure to anchor up to or to place lobster hoops. Will I get more detail or a clearer picture with a newer transducer than with my old pair? Will the B265LH provide clearer detail than the B260? heavy 35' boat, twin Cummins 450C's, transducers are currently mounted through the hull with fairings, two feet on each side of the keel in line with the CH18 Sonar dome that is in the keel, near the front of where the engines are mounted.