Might have asked this before – but cant find post

I’m looking for a fish finder for a canoe. I have been looking around and finding either suction cup transducers and ones that will mount to the trolling motor I also have on canoe.

Anyone have some good suggestions on a fish finder preferably under 200 dollars for a canoe?

Thanks!!!

I guess it all depends on what you want the fish finder to do. If you want temp its going to be a bit more. I know hummingbird makes the pirana series and the 500 series. I believe they are anywhere from 70$ to 300$. I have a 535 bird rigged to my trolling motor on my boat and it works good. all i wanted it for was temp and depth. I could care less if it marks fish, just want to see the breaks and depth changes. Hopefully this helps, Dan

Another option – You can use an ice fishing flasher unit. Just shoot throuh the hull to get a bottom reading.

-J.

Are you going to want Temp?

If not there are a lot of options. I would send a PM to a member that goes by Snow_dog, tell him that Ron sent you. I think that he spends more time in a canoe than should be allowed. He will have a ton of info for you.

Ron

Cabelas have several transducer brackets that may fit the bill.Lowrance and eagle have good graphs that you can mount on a bluebox in the 200$ range.

No such thing as too much time in a canoe…as long as you’re not trying to compete with the big boats where you’ll get a lot of this…

Piranha Fish finders are relatively cheap and work well, if you’re just looking for a product recommendation.

You plan on using the finder only when you are running your trolling motor? Or will you use it in situations where you will not have a 12-volt battery to run off of?

You can go one of three ways for the main unit. You can buy a regular depthfinder which runs off a 12-volt battery and run it as designed, or you can convert a regular depthfinder to run off of 8 AA batteries, or you can buy a portable unit which generally runs off of lantern batteries or 8 smaller batteries.

Then for the ‘ducer you can use a suction cup mount, a trolling motor mount, or shoot thru the hull. Depending on what material your canoe is made from, even ‘ducers designed for suction cup or trolling motor mounting can shoot thru the hull. This works well with kevlar or royalex in most cases but I’ve never tried it thru aluminum. Couple ways to rig this, either temporarly or permanent.

The best option to use will really depend on where you plan to use your fishfinder and what features are most important to you. I played around with using speed/temp before and decided that in a canoe they are pretty pointless.

Feel free to PM me if you’d rather…