Combination Platter
Many of us do our best fishing from tenders and center consoles. Lowrance gets that and has brought to market a line of compact grayscale and color instruments. Its high-end Elite-4x DSI model ($349) is a fish finder/chart plotter combo incorporating something Lowrance calls DownScan Imaging. This technology uses sonar to paint a picture of the territory beneath your keel with near-photographic precision. A “TrackBack” feature allows users to move the cursor anywhere on Elite’s 3.5-inch screen, and review up to a foot back in sonar history. Bait and bottom features marked in fish-finder mode convert to chart-plotter waypoints. The Elite-4 is good to 1,000 feet and uses Navionics cartography. Lowrance, 800-628-4487; www.lowrance.com