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I have been doing some research to replace a 12-year-old Raymarine L1250 sonar unit with a combined chart plotter – sonar unit.
I do almost all of my bottom fishing in less than 100 feet in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. On some other discussion boards, I've gotten input from some users with first-hand experience with CHIRP units and Furuno units with Rezboost and they are reporting the Rezboost system gives as good a reading as CHIRP in water up to 100 ft deep.
My boat is it 25 Contender center console with 24° of dead rise and I would like to install a through hull transducer with the capability to report water temperature. I mainly fish for grouper, which in our area tend to hang very close to the bottom and being able to differentiate sand versus flat limestone bottom is essential to finding the fish.
I have a couple questions.
1. Will getting a 1 kW transducer offers significant benefit over 600 W in water between 25 – 100 feet deep?
2. Are transducers available that will offer bottom discrimination without CHIRP?
I do almost all of my bottom fishing in less than 100 feet in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. On some other discussion boards, I've gotten input from some users with first-hand experience with CHIRP units and Furuno units with Rezboost and they are reporting the Rezboost system gives as good a reading as CHIRP in water up to 100 ft deep.
My boat is it 25 Contender center console with 24° of dead rise and I would like to install a through hull transducer with the capability to report water temperature. I mainly fish for grouper, which in our area tend to hang very close to the bottom and being able to differentiate sand versus flat limestone bottom is essential to finding the fish.
I have a couple questions.
1. Will getting a 1 kW transducer offers significant benefit over 600 W in water between 25 – 100 feet deep?
2. Are transducers available that will offer bottom discrimination without CHIRP?