03-17-2003, 07:12 PM
[cool]Hey, Nate. Had me worried there for a minute. I thought I was reading that you had to sell your wife.
Kinda like the old joke about the guy who says he just got a new car for his wife. Best swap he ever made.
Just thought I would toss in my observations. You realize that for the type of fishing you will be doing most, you do not need high-powered real-time images of your lure below. The more powerful units cost more money and need larger batteries. Just find something that will give you reliable readings on depth and contour...and maybe a fish blip or two.
I have been hooking up the low range Eagle sonars on my kick boats for about 10 years. The Fish Easy only draws about a half amp per hour and gives me everything I need to know for depths up to the fifty feet or so maximum that I fish from flotation craft. It will read over 200 feet if you need it. With the standard 20 degree cone, it works fine for finding bait schools, suspended fish and identifies bottom huggers too. When you learn to read it, you can distinguish weed growth, rock or mud bottom and all kinds of stuff.
The price on those units stays about $100, and is easy to set up for a tube or 'toon. I have pics and diagrams I can send if you want them.
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Kinda like the old joke about the guy who says he just got a new car for his wife. Best swap he ever made.
Just thought I would toss in my observations. You realize that for the type of fishing you will be doing most, you do not need high-powered real-time images of your lure below. The more powerful units cost more money and need larger batteries. Just find something that will give you reliable readings on depth and contour...and maybe a fish blip or two.
I have been hooking up the low range Eagle sonars on my kick boats for about 10 years. The Fish Easy only draws about a half amp per hour and gives me everything I need to know for depths up to the fifty feet or so maximum that I fish from flotation craft. It will read over 200 feet if you need it. With the standard 20 degree cone, it works fine for finding bait schools, suspended fish and identifies bottom huggers too. When you learn to read it, you can distinguish weed growth, rock or mud bottom and all kinds of stuff.
The price on those units stays about $100, and is easy to set up for a tube or 'toon. I have pics and diagrams I can send if you want them.
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