Down Imaging on bow of boat

[JesseParker1]

I have a Lund 1675 and looking to add a DI sonar on the front of the boat. I am curious on how you do this? I run a PD80 trolling motor. My question is where and how do you mount the transducer.

Any help on how or what units people are using would greatly be appreciated!

[PerchJerker]

The best way to run DI off your bow would be to mount the DI transducer directly to your trolling motor. HB makes a trolling motor mount transducer for this, lowrance has an adapter to mount their transducer to, and there are after-market mounts that will work as well.

Another option is to mount the transducer on your transom, although if you're fishing from the bow you'll be a boat-length away from your transducer.

On my own boat I have a structuresan transducer on the transom and have it networked into an HDS unit on my bow. I use downscan a lot in the bow even though the transducer and I are on opposite ends of the boat. If I want to know what's directly under the bow I use the HDS on conventional sonar and use the US2 transducer in my troling motor. At times I run it on split screen - conventional sonar and downscan - and get the best of both worlds.

Hope that helps!