Looking to buy Garmin electronics. Anyone have experience with them? Likes or dislikes ? Thanks

It is what I have and they work great. 93SV at the console and 73DV at the bow.

93SV,...GREAT.
If your ever at fork give me a shout I'll show ya

I had them on my last boat, would love to get rid of the humminbirds on my new boat and get Garmins again

Thank y'all. Saw a post earlier about the maps not lining up with navionics

I have the 1040XS units. 2D, down and side scan are great. Very easy to use. Mapping is just ok, in my opinion.

yep 1040xs here also and will not go back to the others. Get hot spots and lake view ultra and you will love what u see.

I've got the same setup as BassBuster1 and I'm very pleased with them.

I have exact same setup and they are very good units.

I have the lakeview ultra. What is hot spots?

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/maps/on-...prod550906.html

It shows you places of interest on the water like brush piles, etc. I haven't decided whether to buy it or not because according the the Garmin website the lakes I fish don't have it. I'm still trying to confirm that though.

To the OP I have a 93SV and 73DV as well. I'm pretty happy with them. Straight out the box with default settings you get good images.

I have not figured a way to make it talk to Navionics. I am no electronics pro!! I am happy with the units and the mapping which I did upgrade. What the mapping does not have are all of the house foundations and that kind of stuff pre loaded. I am glad to see they have the fishing hotspots(they may have had this for a while but it is new to me)I will be downloading that very soon! The images and all of that work great out of the box. What I liked was the fact that I did not need extra boxes or cables or anything to make them work. I installed them, followed instructions to update software, and went fishing. My kind of stuff, turn it on and it works. I will say that if you want to read depth while on plane, you need a shoot through hull transducer and a different unit. Mine works up to about 7MPH without distortion which could be where I located my transducer but I have heard others give similar results. GPS, time, water temp, all that stuff is great and all really easy to figure out even for a dummy like me.

where can you find a list of lakes it supports?

If you buy the navionics apps for your phone you can find all the foundations, road beds etc and get the coordinates and punch them into your graph if you can find the time.

I've got the 73 SV with fishing hots spots and love it!