Does anyone have any experience with the lowrance hook 7 or 9 sonar units? Would it compare to the hds units?
i think thet are just renamed elite series? not sure but I think and the neame must sound cooler or more marketable to them… But elite I have works quite well I did like a first generation HDS alot too though
Can’t beat the price on the Hook 9!
Picked up a mfg refurb hook 7 on ebay for 299.
Like the DS. Decent options. I use it for recreation fishing. Suits me well. Don’t like you have to buy an addition cable to hook up to dsc. Any alarms that are set work well but aren’t very loud. All in all, for my use, a decent unit. Only In service for about half dozen trips.
Microprocessor is slow when zooming in/out on the chart/mapping page. Seems to bog down alot. The Hook series is the same as Elite/HDI only difference Hook series were loaded with Navionics+ vs. Navionics Gold. Navionics discontinied Gold mapping, went to Navionics+ and Lowrance had to get rid of the HDI series and load Navoinics+, thus the Hook series.
Fishing the beaches, Bays & Ocean of Wildwood/Cape May, NJ
Soon a resident of Georgetown, SC
HDS can do way more than the Hook series, is faster microproceesor. If it was my choice, go with the HDS.
HDS can run the new C-Map insight mapping too!
Fishing the beaches, Bays & Ocean of Wildwood/Cape May, NJ
Soon a resident of Georgetown, SC