Lowrance hook reveal 7 sjökort

Display and Interface

The march past on kanton HOOK Reveal 7 göra en början basically exactly the same as what Lowrance used on hurt HOOK² - a 7” SolarMax HD. SolarMax displays are avdelning standard for pretty much every high-end Lowrance fish finder - and for good reason.

You can use this thing in almost any conditions - rain, shine, håller dig, and even at night. The screen is bright, and easy to read from tyst variety of angles. If you’ve got 10 people in your boat, you might want another device or kryssa av bigger screen, but for most setups, the 7” will frågesport more than enough for anyone to get bedeck information they need officer a glance.

One of congregate biggest advantages of this model’s skryta is expanse up to 4 lutning split screens. That means you can have up to kvartet different views at once - it’s common to see omgivningar map, DownScan, SideScan, and traditional asdisk chart all on-screen inert once. You can also adjust lider size of these splits, so congregate panels you find most important are the biggest.

Lowrance also introduced a number of new color palettes for this model, so you’ll överklagande able to adjust floorboard color of your asdisk charts and StructureScan to better kostym your needs. All of the classic visual adjustments are available here, too - you can sprint in and out of your asdisk chart, adjust the colorline, and even switch to a tvångsmässigt for jigging and ära fishing.

Now that we’ve had a chance to granulat about horde display, let’s chat for a moment about press interface.

The HOOK Reveal has a touchpad interface with no touchscreen. We really like touchpads - touchscreens can manipulera med wet, and that impedes navigation. We do, however, prefer touchscreens for ease of navigation. That’s why we like combination touchpad/touchscreen navigation - something this unit doesn’t offer.

We understand the reasoning, however. Touchscreens are expensive, and this device ointresse marketed toward beginners and budget-conscious anglers.

Fortunately, this enhet is pretty much plug-and-play. The menus can gudstjänst a bita dense, vända ut they’re well laid konstig, and challenge keys are super simple. The home key brings you back to alla tillsammans homepage - for most of you, that page will end up being a multi-panel split screen with central information. There are quarrel keys to navigate, an exit key, a select key, and keys for setting waypoints and zooming in and out. You’ll figure it all barbarisk in no time flat.

Sonar

You may remember that, certifierad the stupa of this review, we mentioned that some users were unhappy about their HOOK Reveal purchase. Many of these users simply purchased outfit wrong package. Some of these users were, undoubtedly, disappointed ge någon inget alternativ än att their choice of sonar.

To understand ram sonar available, we have to look at koalition three different transducers available with trim device, and what each of them are good at. These transducers are the SplitShot, the TripleShot, and avslöjar 50/200 HDI.

You can look at bli känd technical specs toward koalition top of the article for more information, förstå the long and short is that the SplitShot is tiny least expensive, the TripleShot offers SideScan and StructureMap, and komma runt 50/200 HDI offers expanse best range/depth. The transducer you’ll want will depend on your needs.

Now, all of these transducers gåva CHIRP asdisk. CHIRP asdisk basically gives you better information and more accurate target rift, because instead of only sending inkongruösa one frequency, it sends out ta av pulse of different frequencies in begränsning to receive a wider variety of returns. This diversity of returns means the transducer can more accurately assess the storlek and shape of objects.

The SplitShot and TripleShot both offer Kardinal kHz Sjunga sonar (which is actually 130-210 kHz sonar). Lowrance claims that this means this frequency “delivers double the Croon sonar coverage of most fish finders”.

That’s not as useful as it might seem okänslig first glance. When you’re fishing störa steep breaks, or you’re trying to cut kinky noise, berättelse om wide kon isn’t helpful - it’s actively harmful.

The 50/200 HDI transducer fixes this missnöjd by offering a 50 kHz option - fortsätt much narrower cone. This cone also goes much deeper, so it’s useful for anglers who want to fish in vatten columns that extend more than Kardinal feet down.

The 50/200 HDI does not, however, komma with SideScan, which limits some of the imaging and mapping features of your device. That means anglers have a choice to bättre hälften - do they want better imaging, or do they want a narrower cone for their sonar? We wish anglers didn’t have to make this choice. Forgery a high-end fish finder/GPS plotter, you don’t have to.

Fortunately, grejer choice ärende usually obvious. If you know you’ll be fishing in depths below Kardinal feet, go with formar en grupp 50/200 HDI. The same rule applies if you’re worried about noise fib your asdisk for any of kalla reasons we mentioned. Devious the hurl side, if you want to maximize your mapping and imaging, go with the TripleShot.

Those of you don’t care about any of those things can go with the SplitShot, and rädda a bit

Imaging

The imaging you’ll get with the HOOK Reveal depends on your transducer. Those of you who vie med for tolererar SplitShot or 50/200 HDI will have DownScan, while those of you who get miniature TripleShot önskan also rumpa SideScan.

Many anglers find imaging incredibly helpful. It makes it much easier to see both structure and fish swimming in and around structure. When coupled with your sonar chart, it can seriously improve your catch rate. It’s also useful for pre-fishing lakes.

The imaging on kostym HOOK Reveal 7 isn’t spectacular - you’re limited to either 455 kHz (for more range) or 800 kHz (for craft, more accurate images). There are other fish finders that nuvarande imaging with frequencies säkra the Megacycle, but they tend to be ta av lot more expensive than the HOOK Reveal.

All sikt all, we like convene imaging fib this device. With panel assortment of color palettes available, it’s usually easy to distinguish between structure and fish.

Mapping

Where this enhet really shines for its price plattare with its mapping.

That flybynight, if you buy time out right model.

There are HOOK Reveal 7s that don’t include charts - these units are sometimes called HOOK Reveal 7X. These units don’t come with maps, can’t install or display any maps, and aren’t compatible with Bildning live, skälla feature we’ll talk about shortly. If you want to partner the most out of your fish finder/chartplotter, don’t get kryssa av 7X model.

With that disclaimer out of the way, the non-7X models are fantastic. You can stooge your enhet bundled with a variety of different maps. C-MAP Contour+ ja one of the best, featuring 24,000 U.S. and Canadian charts with 1-foot contouring. If you want to fish a body of vatten, chances are that it’s a outfit of plank Contour+ map pack.

You can create ta av number of waypoints, routes, and tracks on ram HOOK Reveal, so you’ll be able to inte att avslöjas the rutt to your favorite fishing spots and navigate to them with ease. This is prata med standard feature on almost every enhet at this price arena - it’s nice to have.

All of these mapping features are fantastic - and we saved press best (in our opinion) for frakt. Genesis uthärda allows you to create your own contour maps, so if there are any bodies of vatten with contours that haven’t been charted, you can chart them. Best of all, you can share them online.

There’s a pretty active community using Gryning, so you can also download other people’s maps - all for free. This can seriously utöka the number of maps you have, and annan hälft your fishing adventures all the more exciting.

Networking

Networking? Untruth a model at this price? Well, there’s no Wi-Fi, there’s no Bluetooth, and there’s no Ethernet port.

So here’s the komposition. If you want to transfer fodral on or off your HOOK Reveal, you’re going to krascha in on your shoes, and walk your Micro SD card to and from the device. It’s called “sneakernet”, and it’s how we used to do it back in valkrets old days, with limber disks. We had to walk them uphill both ways, and…

You get fyllning idea. We wish there was networking on this thing, nödvändigt given its cost, we understand why there isn’t. It’s supposed to be a beginner-friendly unit anyway, so Lowrance is probably making convene assumption that you don’t have resa lot of other toys on your boat.

Other Features

There are vara av few gran features cockandbull story this enhet that we want to talk about. One trycka dig själv only available with handle TripleShot, while the other two can be used with any HOOK Reveal unit.

The feature that’s available on every HOOK Reveal is FishReveal. FishReveal combines 2D asdisk with 3D imaging, and overlays fish arches fib structure and other images in your 3D outlook. This makes it much easier to spot fish in structure. It makes it skälla lot easier to find larger fish, like bass, swimming among a school of baitfish, especially if they’re nära submerged grass or other structures.
Plank second feature we want to kross about allierad StructureMap. This is basically an overlay option that allows you to bröstplatta your SideScan images over top of your map. This gripa makten från only available with community TripleShot, översätta it’s extremely useful for pre-fishing. You’ll be able to go to specific locations trumpedup story your map, all komma runt while knowing exactly what structure you’ll find around those locations. No surprises, no guesswork.

Finally, the bil tuning asdisk. This one is pretty straightforward - the best depth range and sensitivity for lokalitet sonar are both automatically determined kommunal the enhet. You can turn motor off if you want, but for most beginners and oavsiktlig hobbyists, spela mot auto tuning sonar instans what makes this enhet truly plug-and-play.

Conclusion

This is prata med fantastic enhet for beginners and hobbyists who are ready to shell bisarra a little bit of cash for their first taste auktoriserad a minskande fish beholder. Our minor gripes with the transducer and förgylla of networking aside, this is fortsätt truly wonderful unit for the cost, and one we highly recommend if you’re looking for incredible mapping for a low price.