Lowrance Elite Chirp Fishfinders - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

surfisher · 12-17-2015, 07:06 PM

I currently use the Elite 7 Chirp on my boat, 50/200 and 455/800. The Downscan will read all the way to 300'. I have marked schools of yellows on it to that deep, but using chirp or 200khz is my preference. Takes a trip or two to dial in (like any fishfinder), and will take a little getting used to reading the downscan, but what I can say is it makes finding bait 100x easier, and you can distinguish game fish way easier. They will show up as a bright dot (thicker dot for bigger fish) instead of your normal boomerang like the high chirp will show. When you meter a bait school, there will be a hundred tiny little dots. Super nice to use!!!

Murray · 12-17-2015, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by surfisher

I currently use the Elite 7 Chirp on my boat, 50/200 and 455/800. The Downscan will read all the way to 300'. I have marked schools of yellows on it to that deep, but using chirp or 200khz is my preference. Takes a trip or two to dial in (like any fishfinder), and will take a little getting used to reading the downscan, but what I can say is it makes finding bait 100x easier, and you can distinguish game fish way easier. They will show up as a bright dot (thicker dot for bigger fish) instead of your normal boomerang like the high chirp will show. When you meter a bait school, there will be a hundred tiny little dots. Super nice to use!!!

To confirm, you prefer low chirp vs high chirp when fishing deeper water. Do you ever use high chirp? If so, what is max depth you use before changing to low chirp? Have you overlaid down imaging onto sonar display? If I understand things correctly, that would give you best of both technologies (per above video if I remember correctly). Thanks for the input. Probably launching at Oceanside harbor tomorrow to field test my elite chirp 5 with 50/200/455/800 transducer.

markfish · 06-10-2016, 04:01 AM

Lowrance Elite Chirp series is a popular Fishfinder series in the market
like, Elite-9 and 9x CHIRP models,
Elite-7 and 7x CHIRP models,
Elite-4 and 4x CHIRP and Elite-5 and 5x CHIRP models

I've reviewed all the CHIRP Series, you if you want to buy Lowrance Elite Chirp any models, before buying you can review my articles .

http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-4-hdi-review/
http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-5-hdi-review/
http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-5-chirp-review/
http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-hds-9-gen2-touch-review/
http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-7-hdi-review/

12-17-2015, 07:06 PM	#1
surfisher Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Carlsbad Posts: 388	I currently use the Elite 7 Chirp on my boat, 50/200 and 455/800. The Downscan will read all the way to 300'. I have marked schools of yellows on it to that deep, but using chirp or 200khz is my preference. Takes a trip or two to dial in (like any fishfinder), and will take a little getting used to reading the downscan, but what I can say is it makes finding bait 100x easier, and you can distinguish game fish way easier. They will show up as a bright dot (thicker dot for bigger fish) instead of your normal boomerang like the high chirp will show. When you meter a bait school, there will be a hundred tiny little dots. Super nice to use!!! __________________ Last edited by surfisher; 12-17-2015 at 07:12 PM.

06-10-2016, 04:01 AM	#3
markfish Junior Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1	Lowrance Elite Chirp series is a popular Fishfinder series in the market like, Elite-9 and 9x CHIRP models, Elite-7 and 7x CHIRP models, Elite-4 and 4x CHIRP and Elite-5 and 5x CHIRP models I've reviewed all the CHIRP Series, you if you want to buy Lowrance Elite Chirp any models, before buying you can review my articles . http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-4-hdi-review/ http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-5-hdi-review/ http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-5-chirp-review/ http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-hds-9-gen2-touch-review/ http://fishfindly.com/lowrance-elite-7-hdi-review/