Sitting here watching the cardinals get embarrassed again!! so, BPS finally has the 581 hummingbird in and after returning my omega combo I bought the delta zebco reel to try and thought what the heck for $299 for down scan and dual beam graph with GPS I thought I am going for it so grabbed the 581. My question is have the Terrova with the universal transducer which will not work with down scan, can mount the humminbird transducer to the troll motor and take the head of the trolling motor off to run the transducer wire down the groove in the shaft (past the power drive motor) butttttttttttttttttt, I have had a habit in the past when fishing up real shallow in the spring of hitting my transducer on tree limbs or bottom and have broke several off which for the old 320 and 480 were not to expensive till like a year ago then they went wayyyyyyy up in $$. The down scan transducer are for sure pricey, also lots of people have reported interference on their graph from the minn kota troll motors.
My goofy idea is to mount the transducer on a separate extendable shaft independent from the troll motor, looked on google search and not much info there other than one guy that used PVC pipe and a jerry rigged set up to us the transducer up front. Wondering if anyone has tried this or seen any set up that works?
thanks
