998c SI Combo

This is maybe the best of all Hummingbird Fish Finders when it comes to quality/price ratio. Although it doesn’t have the mammoth 10,4-inch display of the 1100 series, it still does have a pretty big screen, full color 480 x 800 pixel resolution, 8-inch diagonal.

The Hummingbird Fish Finder 998c SI Combo it’s equipped with the finest sonar technology. It has the DualBeam Plus sonar with up to 8000 watts PTP power output reliable up to 1500ft depths, or even 3000ft depths with an optional 200 / 50 kHz transducer. It’s SwitchFire technology allows you a different type of view of what’s under water, in Max Mode or Clear Mode.

It’s Side Imaging and Down Imaging will provide you with photo-like snapshots of the underwater environment, allowing you to distinguish accurately between structures, fish or any protuberance or ditch on the water bottom.

The Humminbird unit is compatible with Navionics and LakeMaster charts. Has the CountourXD mapping database, allowing you to access over 3000 U.S. lake maps. It’s GPS features include: 50 Channels GPS, trackplotting and chartplotting. Also, this fish finder has Ethernet possibilities, allowing you to hook up to other fish finders and share sonar, views, GPS position, waypoints and routes.

As far as it concerns this Hummingbird fish finder ‘s memory, it can store up to 3000 waypoints, 50 routes and 50 tracks.

958c DI Combo

The Hummingbird Fish Finder 958c DI Combo is also a great tool for navigation and finding fish, to have on your boat. It’s one of the best Hummingbird Fish Finders without Side Imaging. However, besides the absence of this feature, they have pretty much anything else.

The Humminbird 958c DI Combo is one of the wide screen fish finders, providing you with an excellent, full color view of the environment under your boat. It’s equipped with a 480 x 800 pixel resolution screen, 8 inches wide, with CCFL backlight. It’s power output is 4,000 Watts PtP.

Has DualBeam Plus sonar technology, which means that you can see in split screen both the 20° and 60° Switchfire sonar returns. Also, since it has Down Imaging, it will actually convert the SwitchFire returns into images with photo-like clarity. This way, you will basically see everything that passes under your boat, fish, structures, trees, rocks, pits or ditches, displayed in very concrete images.

The Down Imaging works flawlessly in waters of up to 250ft. depth. Also, in case you’re venturing into waters deeper than that, you can always rely on the SwitchFire returns.

As far as it concerns this Hummingbird fish finder’s navigational potential, it has a very precise external GPS and it’s a great tool for chartplotting and trackplotting. Therefore you will be able to create and save your itineraries, and also reconstruct a previous route at anytime. Plus, the waypoint system is great, you can always mark down a hot fishing spot, or a sunken structure to revisit whenever you want.

The Hummingbird Fish Finder 958c DI Combo is also equipped with the ContourXD package which covers a wide range of lakes in the United States. So basically, if you’re going somewhere and there’s a lake nearby, you’ll already have it’s hydrographic map written into your fish finder’s database, and you will be able to see the lake’s depth contour lines, and find all the drops or channels with fish.

The 958c DI Combo can store in its memory, up to 50 routes, 3,000 waypoints and 50 tracks.

Last but not least, just like all the other Hummingbird Fish Finder 998c SI Combo or 1198c SI Combo, or basically any fish finder in the 900 and 1100 series, the 958c DI Combo it Ethernet capable, so you can share the waypoints of the hottest fishing spots and even sonar with other anglers. It has a Navionics and LakeMaster card slot as well, so you can upgrade the mapping database with the best, 3D maps featured by Navionics.

All in all, this is a great fish finder, for a very nice price, considering the multitude of its capabilities. So, if you’re not interested in Side Imaging, this unit may be exactly what your fishing boat needs.

958c Combo

Also an elite Hummingbird Fish Finder, the Hummingbird Fish Finder 958c Combo is endowed with a widescreen, 8-inches diagonal 480V x 800H, full-color display, with CCFL backlight which gives the screen a nice readability in direct sunlight or during night.

Although it doesn’t have Side Imaging or Down Imaging it is equipped with DualBeam Plus/SwitchFire sonar which allows you to register high accuracy returns for the 20° beam, and also great coverage with the 60° beam, being quite reliable up to 1500ft depth. This makes it a great fishing tool for depth fishing.

The Humminbird 958c Combo has the same CountourXD mapping incorporated, just like the Humminbird 998c SI Combo or the Humminbird 1158c DI Combo in the 800-1100 series. Also, it’s compatible with Navionics and LakeMaster charts and maps. The GPS features include 50 channel GPS, trackplotting and chartplotting.

This Hummingbird Fish Finder also has the same memory like most high-end fish finders from Humminbird, 3000 waypoints, 50 routes and 50 tracks (20.000 points each). Also, like all the 800+ Hummingbird Fish Trackers, the 958c Combo has the Ethernet option, allowing you to share waypoints, sonar or routes with other Humminbird displays.