[Travis C.]

For me when I was selling them the best feature by far was the ability to mark offshore structure easily with out disturbing the school. If you are a ledge fishermen this is very valuable. You can cruise about 5mph along and throw waypoints at potential areas then go back and fish exact spots. When the fish bunch up post spawn into summer patterns this could be in a place the size of your boat deck out in the middle of a bay or main channel. So you can see how much that could factor into helping you by setting the distance out on the unit then charting those fish without wasting time.

The other real key with the downshot and detail overall is helping to find those fish after a big cold front pushes through and bass a lot of the time lay right on the bottom. Sometimes you will catch one not knowing that and wonder why his belly has mud on it. You can pick those areas up as well. It is all about narrowing the lake down and this is a great tool in your favor.

Also like Jim said, picking up the bait schools is really easy on these units and can help greatly.

You just have to read up on the manual as to what all it can do and then apply it on the water. It will take time....on the water time to get used to reading it like you would read the others.

After you have it down you will wonder how you caught fish at all with the old ones.