Dual sonar at console?

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I have set up a mount for my ipad to run my mapping

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How do you do this? Navionics?

I am old school obviously but I think folks pay too much attention to electronics. Mine will alert me when I get a phone call....WTF???? I go fishing to get away from the phone....I have been on folks boats when they spent more time staring at monitors than they do fishing....screw that....I am of the opinion that the first part of catching a fish is to have bait in the water. I have caught a lot of fish on waters I knew nothing at all about without any kind of machine. I have found reefs offshore with nothing more than an AM radio back in the day....if it was hazy or there wasn't anyway to triangulate something on the hill I'd be out of luck but I could still find my way back to the hill.

I can certainly understand someone who is earning a living fishing, either tournaments, guiding or commercially, would need every advantage available and would have the screen time needed to understand their technology and use it to the apex advantage....most recreational fisherman do not have the time or resources to utilize the incredible technology that is available....unless they spend more time learning to utilize it and less time actually fishing.

I would prefer fishing to fricking around with a computer....it can make a huge difference in catching, I am not disputing that, to me its a question of what I want to be doing on a boat...fishing or looking for fish...and I am pretty satisfied with fishing.....

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Gtmodawg

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I get all that, but on the bodies of water I fish, the summer is close to impossible without this knowledge. I want to learn so I can stop avoiding summer altogether.

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The one at the console mostly for GPS, then change the screen to show graphing once the boat is stopped and you are fishing. The one at the bow would be set to show whatever underwater information you want pretty much all the time. But I don't know shite about shite, so take it for whats its worth.

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And that's me right now. Wanting to do more...I guess.

I would do :

9 at console to run map
12 at console for SI & DI
9 at bow.

Or sell the 2 9's and buy a 12

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quote:GtmodawgI get all that, but on the bodies of water I fish, the summer is close to impossible without this knowledge. I want to learn so I can stop avoiding summer altogether.

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there is no doubt they can make a HUGE difference....the difference in making bait with side scanning sonar and without is game changing....run up to a buoy, look at it with the sonar, and either make bait or go to the next one...it sounds like you have a situation where sonar could be game changing and a reason to make the effort to learn how to use it properly....that is a good reason to do as much as you can afford, in my opinion.

Oh, don't think I haven't thought about that.

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Where does one get this stuff installed? I’m too dumb to do it myself. I’ve been thinking about graphs and may pull the trigger this year.

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My brother and I did mine. If I had to take it to somebody I would probably use superior trolling motor.

It really is easy to do though.

I have one 12” Hummingbird at the console. I have a 9” Hummingbird and a 12” Garmin double stacked on the bow. I use the console for mapping and imaging. I use the bow Hummingbird for maps, waypoints and traditional graph while using the Garmin for LiveScope only.