Testing Garmin’s game-changing new Panoptix fishfinder

By the way, Velvick placed second in the Elite Series tournament on Guntersville that finished the day I arrived. He wasn’t due to have Panoptix installed on his boat for a few weeks, but said if he’d that extra edge at Guntersville, he would have won.

Panoptix is compatible with Garmin’s GPSMAP 7400/7600 series, GPSMAP 8000/8500 series and GPSMAP 7×1, 8×0, and 10×0 series chartplotters, as well as the echoMAP 70s and echoMAP 70dv. The Panoptix Forward Transducer comes with both a trolling motor mounting kit and a transom mounting kit, and the whole package is available now, with a suggested retail price of US$1,499.