Just seeing a fish moving for a lure live on screen sounds almost as fun as spearfishing and seeing the real deal.

Being transom mounted makes no difference but yes they have mounts for both as most/many people use a minnkota now for anchoring a boat in position.. I wonder if you reversed it if you could watch your berley and strayline session live backward, so you can have a seat, instead of having to cast into the strayline forward on a pinnacle etc. 

Muppet unless you have livescope or livesight you are NOT seeing your lure live, its not possible. you are seeing it YES, but NOT live.

As Matotoo pointed out its really for slow or at rest boats, minkottas are used as an anchor on many boats hence the transducer fit.

What it is good for is once you have found say a bunch of fish around ocean weed or a swell bouy, mahi mahi or kingies, you can cast your lure and watch them chase it, or maybe you have found a pinnacle, you can see the fish so you throw your strayline bait amounst them (thats why I think a back ward facing livescope would be ducks nuts).

But turning the transducer down facing is awesome, you can see th schools of kingis etc moving around, great for jigging. 

No dount garmin are the only real option right now, but will be interesting now that lowrance have put out a version "livesight" even though its a shaddow of the garmin version, I think they will catch up in next couple years.

But muppet for what you do, Im not saying its worth upgrading, its not cheap. I personally wouldnt.

Well that is the feature on your model when looking under, its called downscan

You can just use the older display method, if using the transducer in such mode its just showing as you pass over structure. Which of course is going to show your lures dropping etc

The simple difference with live tranducers is, they will show the fish moving live toward the lure or live bait, which would also show up in normal 2d but not until you have passed over it etc.

Yes thats what I just corrected, I meant to say you HAVE downscan should you want to use it.

But i completely disagree, forward facing real time transducer is not the same as a traditional transducer that shows up the real time as a frozen image as you pass over the fish. We will have to disagree there.

Im actually looking at the industry as I design similar systems, Im an industral designer working in nav user experience software. so I am very wary of anything new myself. Thats why if I was going for live view of any sort, at this point in time Garmin is the only way to go. Along with being GPS experts, their current systems are pretty good.

But no its not something Im buying into yet. Im actually waiting for lowrance to get its livesight better as I think its a winner with what is imo a better Sonar system.

However, ClearVu vs Downscan by lowrance, Id go downscan every time. Simply because it actualy looks down. Clearvu stitches side images to give its most clear image. Downscan shows much more detail