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Garmin Striker 7sv

by tracy willis

May 3, 2016

im looking at buying one of these units strictly for the side imaging function. do any of you guys know of anyone that has one of these units or has one of the other 7" units from some of the other manufacturers. what i am looking for is to locate bigger bluegill bedding in deeper water and probably scanning no more than 30ft side to side. my worry is that with a 7 inch screen the resolution is going to be lacking in detail enough to see fanned beds.

thanks
Tracy
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    B. Waldman

    Don't have that unit but have heard good things about it. I don't believe you'd have any problem accomplishing what you want to do. Before upgrading, I ran a H'bird 798SI unit and could clearly see bluegill beds with it.

    -T9

    May 3, 2016

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      tracy willis

      yeah i have a lowrance elite 4 for 2d sonar and high speed depth reading(keeps my prop looking new on KY lake where you could suddenly go from 50ft to 2ft lol). see my wife bought me this bass tracker 175 last year and i should have upgraded to a better unit but im cheap. so she is going to buy me another for our anniversary and of course i dont want to spend a few thousand for a lowrance or hummingbird with the 11 or 12 inch screen. garmin introduced this unit as an entry level SI unit for cheapskates like me. some of the reviews ive read said that they took their lowrance elite 7 total scan back and liked this unit better as it had a little better resolution.

      thanks for the reply on seeing the gill beds with small screen. i think im gonna go for it and see how it turns out and maybe get some screen shots and post them for you guys. this unit is only $499 so we will see if it is a good bang for the buck.

      tracy
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        tracy willis

        a little update to this thread. i went ahead and bought the 7sv last year and it turned out to be a very nice unit. mine came with the GT52 transducer but with the Navico lawsuit they changed the transducer element on the downview piezo. they won the final lawsuit so they should be back to packaging the better transducer soon in the US.

        i am able to scan bluegill beds and can actually see fish on the beds(shows up as a white dot). the downview is great for crappie fishing along with the 2d chirp. the chirp is a lot clearer than my lowrance non chirp. i ended up paying about $450 on sale.

        anyway like Leo stated, their is no update function but so far it does what i want it too. as far as memory, it holds all of your settings and several thousand way points. there was some guy writing reviews to the contrary on several interweb sites and he is just plain wrong. makes me wonder if he even bought the unit or had a defective unit.
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        Jul 23, 2017