Lowrance Elite“Elite”, according to my dictionary, means “the most powerful, rich, gifted or educated members of a community” ... which makes it rather an odd choice of name for a range of 5-inch plotters and fishfinders whose list prices range from a very reasonable £430.05 for the Elite 5x fishfinder, through £574.57 for the Elite 5m plotter, to a far from bank-breaking £656.83 for the Elite 5 combined plotter-sounder. Even less exclusive is the £189.18 price tag on the Mark 5x -- the matching monochrome fishfinder.
But it’s not always the richest or most powerful members of the community that do the best job -- and the new Lowrance Elite range certainly have all the right credentials to fill a vacancy on the dashboard of many RIBs, sportsboats, and sea anglers: they have square, super-bright 480x480 pixel displays, simple, well-separated control panels that are designed for one-thumb operation, and plotting functions that are sensibly optimised for the mid-range Navionics “Gold” cartography. Fishfinding features include a 500W dual-frequency transducer in the Elite 5 and Elite 5x with what Lowrance claim to be a unique “trackback” feature that allows the user to scroll back through time to take a second look at the fishfinder history.
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