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Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: Shallow Waters] #14247163 01/12/22 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Shallow Waters
Its like some of you are just looking for a reason to hate on HB. If you thought that system compared at all to Mega 360 then I really cant imagine what you have done to your 360 setup. I think its cool that Lowrance is working on the technology, and their imaging isnt terrible, but that would be a tough system to find use in.

I have birds and the reason people hate on them is that they aren’t user friendly. Little things like not being able to adjust panel size on solix units seem so intuitive and practical, but HB doesn’t make the effort. Their images are good, and 360 is still unrivaled, but I do not enjoy my birds at all.

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Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: flippinskeeter] #14247201 01/12/22 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Shallow Waters
Its like some of you are just looking for a reason to hate on HB. If you thought that system compared at all to Mega 360 then I really cant imagine what you have done to your 360 setup. I think its cool that Lowrance is working on the technology, and their imaging isnt terrible, but that would be a tough system to find use in.


Reasoned critiques isnt hating. Im a humminbird fan boy....im just realistic too. the screenshots I saw were impressive. If you use a touch screen Lowrance at your bow, and humminbird at the console like I do....youd understand that HB has catching up to do in terms of user experience.

Before when their Mega was blowing everyone out of the water it was an easier pill to swallow. Lowrance played the catch up game and got within arms reach for image quality when they rolled out the 3 in 1 ducer. Garmin is lapping the competition with livescope, and their SI and DI looks like its improved as well to the point where its accpetable and catches the same as the competition does (just not as crisp). Everyone seems to have caught up with humminbird and done better R&D to drive to improve....seems like humminbird is on the same level as everyone else now and arguments can definitely now be made that maybe overall Lowrance or even garmin is better than Humminbird, and I NEVER woudve said that even as recently as 6 months ago/before they rolled out Mega Live.

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Its like some of you are just looking for a reason to hate on HB. If you thought that system compared at all to Mega 360 then I really cant imagine what you have done to your 360 setup. I think its cool that Lowrance is working on the technology, and their imaging isnt terrible, but that would be a tough system to find use in.

I have birds and the reason people hate on them is that they aren’t user friendly. Little things like not being able to adjust panel size on solix units seem so intuitive and practical, but HB doesn’t make the effort. Their images are good, and 360 is still unrivaled, but I do not enjoy my birds at all.


I love my imagine on my mega+ helix....but it is definitely not the easiest to navigate through. Even the overall appearance of the UI or whatever its called, the tile set up they have on the home screen, just the whole flow type of thing to it makes using it almost fun. Its pretty cool to touch screen through stuff...even on lower end units like my TI2.

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Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: Russell Marine Products] #14247287 01/12/22 09:36 PM
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Spotlight scan 2.0 as far as being on the trolling motor. But I do think it would work really well mounted on the new version of the live scanner that has variable speed and auto rotation thumb.

Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: KnotTexan] #14247396 01/12/22 11:33 PM
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I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


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Originally Posted by Happykamper
I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


Well hurry up and update so you can do a review.

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I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


Well hurry up and update so you can do a review.


Still waiting on my new boat, should be here Friday or Monday.


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Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: KnotTexan] #14247425 01/13/22 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by KnotTexan
Spotlight scan 2.0 as far as being on the trolling motor. But I do think it would work really well mounted on the new version of the live scanner that has variable speed and auto rotation thumb.




I think it’s going to take something like that to be really useful. Just not sure if Lowrance will allow it to work in a situation, other than with the ghost.

Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: Happykamper] #14247426 01/13/22 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Happykamper
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I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


Well hurry up and update so you can do a review.


Still waiting on my new boat, should be here Friday or Monday.




What brand did you go with this time?

Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: grout-scout] #14247471 01/13/22 01:06 AM
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Spotlight scan 2.0 as far as being on the trolling motor. But I do think it would work really well mounted on the new version of the live scanner that has variable speed and auto rotation thumb.




I think it’s going to take something like that to be really useful. Just not sure if Lowrance will allow it to work in a situation, other than with the ghost.


Just reading over on the BBC and that’s kinda what it sounds like, with software controlling the rotation speed of the Ghost through the head unit?

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I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


Well hurry up and update so you can do a review.


Still waiting on my new boat, should be here Friday or Monday.




What brand did you go with this time?

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Awesome, congratulations!

Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: Happykamper] #14247774 01/13/22 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Happykamper
I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


Same here. I think it’s a big plus to not have another transducer hanging off the bow or trolling motor. Simple software update. Guys that are worried about not using spotlock must have not been fishing for long. No big deal to turn off spot lock for a few min to do a scan. Lowrance made a great product with the Ghost!


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Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: horseplaydvm] #14247776 01/13/22 02:02 PM
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I think it is cool, I have all lowrance on my new boat, I think I will be able to use it just fine, it may not be quite as efficient as the bird but all i have to do is update the graph to get it, already have the 3 in 1.


Same here. I think it’s a big plus to not have another transducer hanging off the bow or trolling motor. Simple software update. Guys that are worried about not using spotlock must have not been fishing for long. No big deal to turn off spot lock for a few min to do a scan. Lowrance made a great product with the Ghost!


As long as there's 0 wind, it will work. Otherwise you will get blown away from where you want to scan.

Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: flippinskeeter] #14247848 01/13/22 02:57 PM
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can you use this 360 to locate fish

Re: Lowrance Ghost 360!! [Re: Russell Marine Products] #14247891 01/13/22 03:40 PM
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I know on Mega 360...I've seen white rice looking blips on the screen of my buddies and we guessed they were fish. So I bet this would be the same.

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