Budget ?
Any body got a favorite?
Will be mostly brackish water and salt near-shore.
Can't imagine the depth is more than a hundred feet anywhere that I'll be.
Really just want a good clean picture - probably side-scan.
Rick_W
CPO-USN(Ret)
You don't know what you don't know.
I'm running a Garmin 840XS in mine, but it's way overkill for your needs. Awesome unit though...
Originally Posted by keeki
Guess it doesn't really matter. If ya cant afford $15, you won't be buying much anyways
Would like to keep it under $1k.
Rick_W
CPO-USN(Ret)
You don't know what you don't know.
The Raymarine A65 is probably one of the best units out there for the price, and would have been my choice if I didn't need a larger screen and keypad interface.
Originally Posted by keeki
Guess it doesn't really matter. If ya cant afford $15, you won't be buying much anyways
If your fishing inshore as it appears you are, you can get a good unit for well under your budget.
I had the luxery of free electronics from Raymarine when i lived and was guiding in the keys.
Now i buy my own and frankly what i had was way overkill for what i actually needed. Florida sportsman
sells chips showing all the wrecks and known hotspots for the entire state in a regional format. I have most
of the state entered into my current small Hummingbird unit. So i really only need the unit to steer from point a to point b
and the depthfinder keeps me out of trouble while running. I had a large list of spots in the keys but many of them are
also on the chips i now have. My unit has down imaging but not side scanning. I frankly think most of those type features
are pretty much worthless unless you enjoy playing with the units more than fishing. Some days i never even turned my machines
on when i was in the keys. If things were slow i used the fishfinder, but otherwise i just used my waypoints and kept moving till we had fish.
Tide and current are also very important and that requires knowledge of the area more so than the electronics.
I appreciate all the info.
We don't know the area so I can see using the unit a lot initially to learn the lay of the land and then using it less and less.
Our boat is coming with a Humminbird PiranhaMax 153 (gray-scale I believe).
We'll use it as-is initially but I can see wanting to upgrade soon.
Rick_W
CPO-USN(Ret)
You don't know what you don't know.
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