Lowrance Eagle Eye 9 Live Sonar | Thoughts after First Look on the Lake

[@nathanopdahl9482]

I just installed mine and tested it for a couple hours Saturday..I had about the same results, I moved the range out a little farther so I didn’t get to close and loose the fish in the “blind spot”. Will definitely make you be an accurate long range caster! I also had to keep adjusting the depth range, also I turned the gain up from the factory setting. I think with some practice it will great! Was very impressed with the picture quality, the fish were easy to identify! Can’t wait to use it more. Looking forward to the next video!

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

Thank You for your feedback on your experience too! Agree that it’s a great little unit and excited to learn more about it as I practice with it.

[@lowdownbrown2002]

Just pick mine up today it's Monday before Thanksgiving going to try to go out and give it a try Friday supposed to be kind of bad weather on Thanksgiving Day so hopefully Friday or Saturday or Sunday I'll be able to get out and give it a try not saying I might not sneak out there on Thursday anyway thanks again for your video

[@ZZ430T56]

You can not put the depth on auto?

[@claywills4232]

I used mine this weekend for the first time. You nailed the review. It will be good for brush pile fishing and crappie

[@iowachipguy4407]

Thank you for the information and my hats off to you for switching transducer on the water, I would have lost the screws and and fell in trying to catch them 😂😂

[@timburton9514]

I like that you keep a toolbox in your boat! Smart kid !

[@bmaharg7990]

Great review. Take us out again soon.

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

Thank you! I will.

[@stevenwhite5558]

I love mine, enjoy it and looking forward to using it in the future

[@MSmith-jf5wo]

I'm sure it's a Great little unit for "Younger Eyes", and great casting abilities! I was interested in the Lowrance unit, until finding out how narrow everything is on the "Live Scope" capabilities. Thanks for the review. (Guess this Old Bass Fisherman will just have to wait 'til BPS puts their Garmin 10.5 Live Scope units on sale this Xmas!). Lol

[@TheJrodification]

Great video man!!! Thanks for the info.. and to your point im not a rich professional this is all i want to afford !!!!!

[@MarkDragon-uq5fq]

Got mine yesterday will be installing and testing this week

[@viktor34567]

if you can, try to make the horizontal axis start at 10’, the range 70’ and the depth 25’. It’ll fill almost all of the screen.

[@jdnotariano]

I have been looking for my first “front deck” unit and I think I will get this one. Thanks.

[@drtoddsullivan]

Great review, I think for the cost the picture quality is nice. Constantly adjusting the settings would be annoying but for my use on a jon boat it will be fine.

[@redfisher4132]

Thank you for this accurate and truthful video. I was almost sold until you pointed out the example of the cone limitation at 10:14. Also, although you seem to have some settings on 'auto', you need to continually manually adjust the settings so that you are using at least a diagonal half of the 9" screen. I would also being using the unit for ice fishing in relatively shallow water (10-12'), and the down imaging cone angle looks quite narrow. Looking forward to more of your videos.

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

Thank you for watching! The largest down sonar cone I found was 16’ wide when in 40’ + deeper water. I’ll update as I learn more about this unit!

[@jaredbelik9976]

Thank you for the review. I’ve been waiting to see this in action.

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

Thanks for watching!

[@brandonborders9082]

Thanks for doing this review. Very helpful.

[@kennethlowy1864]

Thank you for your great presentation

[@todddavis4203]

good video man, Thanks. Im sold.......

[@fishingfanatic1]

Without the use of a “black box” what would be the recommended battery to use with this unit? Would a lithium battery be needed to run the live sonar for a full day?

[@haulinbasstexas7270]

Great video. Very informative. I'm hoping to have mine in this week. I'm a kayak angler and new to the live sonar seen. Due to the transducer size, I can't mount it under my kayak in the factory transducer mount. I will have to mount it to a deployable poll over the side of my kayak. I'm hoping that it being mounted to a movable poll I will be able to compensate for some of the dead space caused by the size of the cone. I guess time will tell.

[@vernonbrookins6481]

Thanks for the info I want to put one on my kayak

[@ksfishingadventures]

Can you angle the transducer down a bit so it’s not shooting the cone so far forward? Maybe help get rid of brush piles in the blind spot?

[@Kendrix1]

Thanks. I learned a lot...

[@lowdownbrown2002]

I like to see thank you for the video most of the videos I've seen only talk about what the other units do You took this one out and really showed what it can do and what it can't like you say for the average fisherman who only goes on weekends when he has time Don't want to spend $3,000 but $1,000 I think I can swing and not have to not know if I'm around fish when I do go fishing I go to a lot of spots but a lot of times I get no bites and I wonder if I'm using the wrong bait or if it's just not fish there at that time so this will definitely help me just to see that it's fish down there I just can't catch them that's on me but spending all day at different spots and not catching anything is not great especially when you only have certain times you can get out and go so this is like a you're not shooting in the dark item I'm definitely going to pick up got to save them pennies thank you again for the video

[@joshkeller84]

How would this do in river situations where the max depth is 6 - 8 ft? Would the cone angle be much less severe than the deeper settings?

[@tornadoinnovation]

good review

[@keithlane2440]

Does this have to be mounted to a trolling motor?

[@fishingfool2644]

One day I'm going to add one with Lowrance FS Elite 9. I do mostly trolling and could use it to watch the dodgers behind the boat.

[@dukeitsk9624]

If one mounts the transducer at the stern I wonder if it will cover more underneath the boat

[@cutley2b]

Question…when you were in 15’ of water, why not adjust your display depth to 15’? Wouldn’t that have given you more display? Seems like a lot of wasted display showing way below the bottom.

[@blackops7445]

Well, you can split the screen and use the live down and forward live at the same time. It eliminates most of that gap in the view. FYI.

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

Interesting. To my knowledge you can split the screen to view live forward and down scan but not down live. You cannot live view both forward and down that I have found. Would love to know how to do that if you do in fact have that capability.

[@robertkey7893]

Great info! Thanks! Do you need a dedicated battery for this unit?

[@maplefish]

Does having the forward facing sonar make you screen watch more and spend less time looking at the water? If I got it I would be standing above it, would the fish still be easily seeable from above? Thanks

[@GamedUpEnt]

Looks cool to me the only thing is I think is Lowrance should've made it to were the image fits the screen maybe they'll have a software update date , when buying new technology it's also good to wait until a year or so after it releases so all the bugs and problems can be address in the second generation or maybe 3rd then buy .

[@HuffFishing]

Did you change any default settings after you installed it? If so can you tell us what settings you used? Thanks

[@johnv.h3888]

What is the tranducer frequincy from the 2D modus.Can you adjust it to 200 Khz ?

[@ColeWilliams-z6c]

What do you keep you’re live settings on

[@asendilovski5376]

Would you buy it again over elit 9 fs?

[@rumanwork]

Please tell me what size the new sensor is?

[@ricksewell6037]

You have the transducer mounted facing backwards, it s shooting under the boat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a great depthfinder though!

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

If you watch the video I stated this and corrected it almost immediately. It is a good unit!

[@fishingfanatic1]

Does this unit drain the battery fast compared to a regular ffs unit?

[@Jon_Ray]

Would you recommend this if my trolling motor doesn’t have spot lock feature?

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

Absolutely! My trolling motor is not able to spot lock.

[@Jon_Ray]

@ thanks

[@icefishingoutdoors]

I run a garmin panoptix livescope I have to deal with switching cone angles once you search with forward mode gotta manually set your sonar to downview to get the most out of your sonars

[@Shane-oz5ej]

How is the panoptix I’m looking at either getting that or the eagle eye 9

[@icefishingoutdoors]

@ you would want panoptix as your able to change the cone angle more than the eagle 9

[@outdoorsman9384]

Whats the total on this unit?

[@fishin360]

i wish it also came with a transom mount transducer...

[@chadhawley5794]

Can you adjust the transducer angle to get rid of the blind spot

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

I messed around a little bit with it and it starts to cut the cone off at the top of the water as you rotate it. Didn’t have a lot of time to test but will come back to this idea.

[@jasonmathews3353]

How do u get the spotlight flashlight icon that follows which way your ducer is pointed in forward mode some guys have it some don’t

[@dannylang7971]

What is that 45 degree angle white line in it?

[@tharris4718]

That shows the cone angle. By adjusting the depth shallower you have a larger view.

[@ricolemay2141]

I guess the one down fall is you lose the option to get side scan with this whole set up.

[@SneakerShow24]

Just spend a little extra money and get a used Garmin Livescope setup. That blind spot is going to be really annoying over time.

[@Black-March]

Does this require an external battery or is it internal?

[@tharris4718]

External battery

[@CBGRTR]

Great pic i have garmin LS but yeah somebody is just a hobby fisherman be great for $1000 bucks

[@davidnieuwland]

To bad once outside the US the price goes up to 1700$. Would you still be happy with that pricepoint ?

[@breedam]

Where is it 1700? Im in the netherlands and they are around 1200 here

[@Bcook73]

I would save up fur garmin livescope. That sucks missing the first 30 feet

[@dannylang7971]

Don’t like that cone angle that you cannot see.😊

[@charlesgranger32312]

I got a 10 inch garmin and livescope for 999 lot better

[@Jon_Ray]

Did it come with a graph to or just box

[@charlesgranger32312]

@ hole kit from bass pro

[@Jon_Ray]

@@charlesgranger32312 you must have gotten it on a good deal because the cheapest garmin unit and livescope I seen cost minimum of 800 and 900 dollars

[@Jon_Ray]

@@charlesgranger32312 what’s the name of the kit you bought?

[@tomsmith9212]

Please mess with the settings out the box didn’t look goid

[@NormNewsome-qh6zs]

Does it have a auto feature?

[@Sappwildoutdoors]

The auto feature is just an auto setting for the cleanest picture settings. I was really hoping the auto feature would automatically adjust for the depth of water for the biggest/ best picture. I had it set on automatic here and it just adjusts for gain picture quality. Hope this helps.

[@58dbeck33]

What a waste of a 9in screen