Chirp sounder set ups / pictures

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Hi all looking at 1kw chirp sounder set ups simrad / garmin for new boat
Is there many among us running chirp?
would be good to revive some first hand experience and sounder pictures to compare
cheers mick

[Aussie123]

I have a couple of pics I can upload.
I will edit them shortly and upload them.

[chocolatemoose]

here i am in shallow water. i had snuck up to a collapsed jetty near raymond island in gippsland victoria. over a school of black bream fun times was had.

[Aussie123]

Here is some pics from varying depths.
You can see on the first pic how chirp has the ability to penetrate and bounce around a cave or hollow objects on the bottom.

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Here is some pics from varying depths.
You can see on the first pic how chirp has the ability to penetrate and bounce around a cave or hollow objects on the bottom.

Thank for posting mate .. I ran a nss8 in the old boat mainly used as a plotter easy to use .. What transducer are you running ??
That at overhang pic is brilliant !!! The deep water shot of 100m are they snapper?
Cheers mick

[Aussie123]

That setup is the NSS12 + BSM-2 and CM599LH 2-3KW Transducer.
That second pic was a mix of Snapper,Ironjaw,Gold Band,Jobfish and AJ's ect.
The lines were from a 20kg plus AJ that we were fighting at the time.
3rd pic is Harpuka
4th is cod

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Cheers I'll go down the marine expo and have a look around see if simrad has a stand there

[Luke G]

I'll try to get some pics up on my garmin 8000 series with gsd26 and a pm265. 1000m was easily attainable.

[bannana]

1kw chirp on my 1150.

This was the first bump I went over using my new transducer west of the breaksea and circled back and took these pics. Shortly after a few nice fish hit the deck including a nice 8kg red. I found this spot sitting on 34 knots looking at a 40mtr window before slowing down to take these pics of course.

[bannana]

I'd still prefer this over chirp every day of the week!!

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Keith how good is that !!!! mate thats more like what i would expect from chirp ..... i now see why they went nuts over the pictures
i had a play with the garmin gear on sunday at the marine expo and liked what i saw.... i will still want a 50/200 as well a chirp .. cheers mate

[bannana]

Keith how good is that !!!! mate thats more like what i would expect from chirp ..... i now see why they went nuts over the pictures
i had a play with the garmin gear on sunday at the marine expo and liked what i saw.... i will still want a 50/200 as well a chirp .. cheers mate

yeah thats the go Mic.

Mate you can see if you look closely that the chirp pic is a 15mtr range window with the gain as high as 8.4 yet it has ordinary bottom clarity compared to the larger range window on the non chirp at a 20mtr window yet you can clearly see bottom growth on the bottom. The bottom discrimination is as important if not more important than the fish shows IMO. Good luck mate I think they are all good these days. Everyone has an opinion but at the end of the day my mate has a simrad with a 1kw in 400mtrs and its brilliant IMO.

Heres a couple more basic pics