Another Showdown question

[fishhuntwork]

I am going to buy a showdown 5.6 soon, was wondering if I should buy a single or dual beam transducer? Also any feedback on them would be great.

[rodmoen]

The dual beam is awesome if you are fishing alot of deeper water or, fishing where the bottom is not flat. With a wide angle beam in 40 fow, your field of view is gigantic and fish on screen may be 15 feet from your lure. If you are fishing a slope, the wide angle beam will show bottom as the highest part of the slope, so if your fishing the bottom, you may fish the entire time in the part of your screen the sonar wont show. Just my 2c worth. I know tons of people have been using single beam showdown and I haven't heard a complaint yet.

[KG243]

The dual beam will also help if you are fishing next to someone who has a flasher also as you can switch to narrow beam for less interferance. My dad just baught the dual beam and loves it.

[DaSwede]

I would have gotten the dual beam, but I just bought mine last year before it came out. Just my luck! I don't know why you wouldn't want the dual...other than the price.

[dmpalm]

I bought the single beam 5.6 and love it. The dual beam, as mentioned above, thrives in very deep water and gives you a more accurate reading on super steep breaks. I've yet to fish a break where i couldn't see my bait hit the bottom and I rarely fish water deeper than 35 feet, so to me, the extra $50 wouldn't have gotten me much. With the interference rejection systems built into them, you'll never have an interference issue regardless of single or dual beam. I'd highly recommend the showdown regardless of which model you end up choosing, you'll love it. If that extra $50 isn't and issue and you can find the dual in stock, might as well go for it, but you will not be disappointed with the single either.

[Northlander]

For me its well worth the extra $50 or whatever it turns out to be. If you have the funds get it.

[Hardyboy]

buy the dual beam you will not be disappointed. and DaSwede you can buy the transducer for your unit that you have.

[DaSwede]

You can buy the transducer, but it there's no way to switch between the wide and narrow beam. It runs different software. As soon as it came out I contacted them. It's a no-go.

[Hardyboy]

Hey DaSwede you are right your software doesnt match up however and i know its more money but the other nice thing about your showdown is the software is upgradeable. you can send it in or bring it in depending on where you live and for a fee they will upgrade the software on your existing unit. its certainly not a perfect world and i know whatever you need its always gonna cost ya but its pretty cool that you can upgrade for the price of a software download versus buying a new unit.