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ELECTRONIC SMORGASBORD

units on the front deck. Blackley noted
he originally equipped his boat with the His array of electronics on the front deck of
Lowrance units because those were his boat gives Tim Blackley a big advantage
the electronics he initially used when when vertical jigging for crappie holding
he started fishing tournaments. “I feel tight to cover.
comfortable with the (Lowrance) menus
and I feel like I get a better image on
the down scan and side scan when I Carbon unit on his console for scouting
am at the console, so it is my scouting a general area he intends to fish. He
tool,” Blackley said. He also has his dedicates the Gen2 model strictly to
waypoints stored in a console unit for scanning right and left side imaging. The
finding marked spots and marking new Carbon unit serves multiple purposes so
spots on his electronic mapping. Blackley usually splits its screens into
Blackley added the Humminbird mapping, down scanning and 2D sonar.
unit to take advantage of its 360 imaging Using both down scanning and
and the Garmin model for the Panoptix 2D sonar allows Blackley to make
LiveScope technology on the front deck. comparisons of what he is viewing
The following tour of Blackley’s beneath the boat. “It just gives me
boat describes the electronics he uses another perspective of what I am looking
on the console and front deck and the at,” Blackley said. “The 2D sonar is what
purposes of each unit. I had in the beginning. Sometimes I
might see something that I don’t see on
Console Mounts the down scan so I just kind of compare
Blackley runs a Lowrance HDS-10 back and forth on both of them.”
Gen2 model and a Lowrance HDS-12 When side scanning with his Gen2

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