Jason, if you think about it quadrabeam is only useful in deep water. If you fish shallow like most of us do the quadrabeam isn't going to help much with the coverage area.
Well yeah but if you want to put it that way then any 2D sonar is junk in shallow waters - which is some what true. At least with the quadrabeam you still get a bit more coverage even if its in 3ft of water lol. The regular transducer 83/200khz is priced between $50-70 bucks... the quadra beam is retail around $80 bucks.... I can get the quadrabeam for around $60 bucks so I'll probably shoot for it.
and trust me.. if i can afford it, I'd get an 1197SI on the console and put my 997SI on the bow... that would be a dream!!!
Ugh.. just thinking about pool 4 makes me nervous... i got my hull scrapped up some from last year too.