03-20-2007, 04:10 PM
Thanks, Kent, I was wunderin if that would be the case. I guess I dismissed that idea because that 4 lb weight is so small. I currently have a Fishing Buddy 4200 that's a 320 x 320 display. I am only a novice fish finder user, so I probably am not aware, or taking advantage of all the benefits of a fishfinder. The only way I currently use my fish finder is for depth and to get a general idea of the bottom contour. I have not relied on it to find fish because I am still unable to interpret whether those tiny images that show up in the middle of the screen are suspended fish or some kind of suspended debris. I would imagine that sounds somewhat stupid, but I just haven't fished enough with it yet to have mastered it. For that matter, I don't get to fish all that frequently period. For this Porta Bote, I will be purchasing an Eagle Fishmark 480 portable. It has a 420 x 420 display.
So are you tellin me that I'll be able to see that small weight 80' or 90' down? Since I haven't purchased it yet, do you think I'd be able to see that tiny ball all the way down there with a 320 x 320 display?
This actually is starting to shape up as an issue. Remember, I haven't purchased that downrigger yet, and the idea here is to get the right one. But there's some big time-sucking implications to not getting the Walker Mini Laker. Why? Because it clamps on to the boat. Easy on, easy off. Since I haven't found another clamp-on downrigger with a line counter, if I really want that built-in line counter, I'm going to have to purchase a deck-mount downrigger. And that means fabricating a portable mount system, since you can't bolt anything to a fold up boat. But if my fishfinder can in effect function as a line counter, then I'm back to the much-easier-to-implement clamp on model.
What say you???
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So are you tellin me that I'll be able to see that small weight 80' or 90' down? Since I haven't purchased it yet, do you think I'd be able to see that tiny ball all the way down there with a 320 x 320 display?
This actually is starting to shape up as an issue. Remember, I haven't purchased that downrigger yet, and the idea here is to get the right one. But there's some big time-sucking implications to not getting the Walker Mini Laker. Why? Because it clamps on to the boat. Easy on, easy off. Since I haven't found another clamp-on downrigger with a line counter, if I really want that built-in line counter, I'm going to have to purchase a deck-mount downrigger. And that means fabricating a portable mount system, since you can't bolt anything to a fold up boat. But if my fishfinder can in effect function as a line counter, then I'm back to the much-easier-to-implement clamp on model.
What say you???
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