Anyone have a Humminbird HELIX 5 SI GPS

[Tailortaker]

Hi all, does anyone have one of these and are they any good ? Looking at buying on as the cheap crap sounder in my boat doesn't cut it. Really keen on the side scan as well as having a sounder gps combo rather than using the navionics app on the iPhone. It will mainly be used in bribie passage and lake monduran.

Cheers, TT

[chocolatemoose]

its the most complete well packaged 5" unit on the market for sure. humminbird simplicity, great sonar. yep. does the job ever so nicely

[Tangles]

Tailortaker go to a shop and play with few brands and see which one you can use easily and understand, be it Garmin, Lowrance or Hummingbird etc .. personally i cant navigate around the Hummingbird or Lowrance easily but find Garmin and Furuno easy to operate so i get the most out of them, they are all good if you understand them and i seriously doubt 95% of anglers use their sounders to their full capabilities so all the sexy features or garb is fluff.. just my opinion

[Sleepydragon]

Just wonder when the Humminbird HELIX 7 SI come out. Anyone ?

[chocolatemoose]

just put in my stock order for helix 7's yesterday. so.. soon i guess. helix 7SI with navionics gold will be around $1400