I’m Looking for some advice. I need to purchace a portable depth finder. I am on a tight budget so it needs to be inexpensive, but I don’t want to waste my money on crap. Small is also a consideration as I need to pack it into the BWCA for a canoe fishing trip. I really don’t know to much about them so any information or related web sites would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I’d get a Vexilar flasher. Same set up as used for ice fishing. You can get a floating trasducer or one that has a suction cup mount.
You may want to check the pawn shops for a used one..??
Jon J.
I would second what Jon said. I have been using mine in the boat for awhile now. I just get a little water in the bottom of the boat and shoot threw the aluminium hull.
If you can find a used Zercom flasher in good condition it would do what you want it to. They work like a Vexilar but have about 20 times the battery life. This would be nice when going to the BWCA.
The Vexilar CLC-200 is a great unit for the BW and its an affordable color graph. Whats nice about the CLC-200 is you can run it for a week on just 8 AA batteries
http://www.vexilar.com/products/clc200.html
If you have a trolling motor a puck transducer can be mounted on it with a pipe clamp thing-a-ma-jigger. Works great….not a good as universal sonar, but gives you what your looking for….depth. I had a vexilar flasher set up like that…you can ever leave the vexilar in an ice-fishing mount and use the same battery. Hope this helps. TGIF
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
