02-26-2003, 07:36 PM
One of the best home made rigs I've seen started off with a 5 quart (6-pack) Coleman cooler with a [size 1]reversible[/size] lid. The fishfinder was mounted to the underside of the [size 1]reversible[/size] lid so all you had to do was rotate and reverse the lid to get the fishfinder out of and on top of the cooler. The battery was velcroed inside the cooler on the bottom. The transducer was a plumb bob style suspended by its own cable so you just dangled it over the edge of the ice hole and could set the cooler anywhere the cable would reach to. The only di
vantage to the plumb bob style transducer is that you can't angle it off to the side very easy. It pretty much looks straight down. Still, the entire thing packed up easy in the cooler and set up easy when you got to where you were going.
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vantage to the plumb bob style transducer is that you can't angle it off to the side very easy. It pretty much looks straight down. Still, the entire thing packed up easy in the cooler and set up easy when you got to where you were going.[signature]