Well, I went for years without one. I bought one from Cabelas which only works 10% of the time...I do like them alot..
Questions before I buy my next one..
1. What brand do you have?
2. Cost?
3. Can I clamp it to the bottom of my trolling motort? I won't drill any holes in my boat.
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RE: Depth Finder
I have two on my bass boat and the one up front runs off the trolling motor. Both are Humminbirds and seem to work well. I use them mostly to look for structure rather than fish.
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Vexilar FL-8, I have 3 of them. One on my boat and 2 we take ice fishing. Got my first one about 15+ years ago. Works awsome and yes you can clamp it to the trolling motor, have to build a bracket though. Cant buy the fl-8 anymor but you can pick one up on ebay for probly 100$ bill.
I have two on my boat. The one up front is a lowrance t37x, ui like it okay i wish it had a bigger screen
and the one on my console is a lowrance gps sonar combo and i love that, i got that as an up grade
__________________ My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt
Even tho i dont have a boat right now i bought a small Eagle 110?( i think thats the brand& model) a few mths ago( back in casper)..
It was only $15 marked down ( normaly$75) atwalmat -so i had to get it
Came with a free water temp guage to...but i havent tryed it out yet either.
My boat i no longer have had a depth guage/ fish finder i putt on it( eagle brand to i think)( i did drill holes in my boat)- but that was 17 or so yrs ago& they have prob changed some since then?
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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
But You see buying a fish/depth finder also gives me a reason to buy a newboat
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
Depth Finder
had one for 3 yrs then sold the boat
had a depth guage/ fish finder i putt on it( eagle brand to i think)( i did drill holes in my boat)- but that was 17 or so yrs ago& they have prob changed some since then?
