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Humminbird 385 is around your price range with gps
385 is no longer produced and on amazon, w/ gps the cheapest is $449 for the portable (well outside my range). Also as stated above, I don’t need GPS, I have an old iPhone 3GS for that. Thank you for the input though 
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If I were you I would at least give the x67c unit a look see.
I took a look around online and Lowrance doesn’t make them any more. Sucks too, because they look pretty awesome! I would love to have ice flasher as well, but my budget is a little under that price.
So you say it’s good for looking under stuff, how well would it work looking at a weed line? (like a lilly pad line) I assume it’ll just hit the line and disipate the sonor. Also do you think the color is worth the price? Or should I just go b/w?
Thank you very much!
After some research it seems Humminbird bought out bottom line.
From Humminbird site:
Does Humminbird own the Bottomline brand?
The Bottomline brand was purchased by Johnson Outdoors in 1995. We no longer manufacture, sell or service this brand. There are no known service facilities for this brand nor parts available on the aftermarket.
source: http://www.humminbird.com/Faq.aspx?TaxonomyId=91A3189
The new Humminbird uses 6 AA batteries instead.
So you are saying it was a good buy? I don’t need GPS as I have an old iPhone 3GS w/o a sim card in it that I turned into an HD GPS system. All I want to have is something that’ll help tell me where the fish are. The main reason I like the 140c is the side finder. (I also like the idea of color for more detail) How was the side finder in your opinion, was it all it was cracked up to be? I understand it’s supposed to be used like a flashlight, but since no higher end models use this I don’t know how useful it is in practice.
Thank you again in advance for any input!
