Originally Posted by Bigtymer81
Originally Posted by 7x57_Mauser
I have a 93SV UHD at my console and the DI is very good for finding crappie stacked up on structure. If you're familiar with how to read side imaging it can be helpful as well. I really like the emerald green color scheme for DI. Did you get the GT-54 or GT-56 transducer?
I believe it's the 54. I'll know for sure when i get back home. I played with it one night fishing. I could see bridge columns and the road bed in Honeycomb on SI. I also could see what I though was bait fish on DI but it could have been clutter. I'll give the green a look when I can go back out. I've always been a bank fisher so electronics are new to me. Got a boat this summer and was to busy till now.

Both the GT-54 and the GT-56 are very good transducers and have CHIRP capabilities. You'll be good to go either way.

Originally Posted by FurFlyin
I would start out using the factory default settings on everything. I have no experience with the SI on a Garmin. Side imaging takes some "interpretation" to read on any unit. It just takes time. I don't get too excited seeing fish on SI unless I see shadows that accompany them. Watch YouTube videos on your unit. That will help.


This is good advice. I mainly use side imagining to look under docks, but now that I have a LVS32 I mostly use that to look forward, down, or perspective.