Michael, I would love to hear more about the color as that is the one I am looking at.
Ask away… what do you want to know?
The screen is just plain brighter and clearer, especially in bright sunlight. It’s easier to pick out fish when they are near cover… the fish symbols show up as blue fish shapes, and weeds and structure show in shades of red & orange and yellow and black.
The overall display is contrastier than the greyscale too, the background is whiter and the blacks blacker.
I’ll be glad to answer any questions if I can.
Yes, battery consumption of AA alkalines is much faster than the greyscale models @ 16 hours versus 30 hours for the 110/120/130. I posted elsewhere about my solution to that, I am using AA Eveready Ultimate Lithium cells instead, which should last probably 4 times as long and I bought them for $2.49 per 4 pack on Amazon, including shipping 3 4 packs was only about $14. That’s two changes of all batteries (it uses 6 AA cells at a time). The battery consumption thing is just not that big a cost compared to everything else we blow money on.
The 130 and 140 also have the telescoping transducer shaft that can go from 24" to 40", where the others only go down 24". On some 'toons 24" might not be enough, depending on how you mount the unit.
The Cabela’s Fishin’ Buddy Holster is a joke though. Crappy strap arrangement where you have to set it, try it for length, set it again, not like the “thread the buckle and pull” strap on the Scotty rod holder and anchor davit. And even if the strap is real tight (I put it on when the tube is not topped off yet and then top the tube off to get it real tight), it wobbles like crazy because the strap only touches the tube the FF goes through in a small area. I am going to try threading a second strap through it to hopefully stabilize it. The Humminbird float tube adapter looks much better designed except it only has a 36" strap… which is way short of being able to get around the 16" tubes on my Outlaw Rampage. I guess it’s possible to extend the strap some way, but for the $29.95 cost of the simple device you shouldn’t have to.
I’m glad I bought the color model (www.thenerds.net had it for $224) and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Thats funny,
it does show you the fish you are not going to catch , being new to a kicking boat, I really like to have depth and structure of the bottom, and knowing if there is a fish is nearby is great, more confidence will bring more fish, i’ve heard that from the greats 
…I found the fishing buddy ok on my first use…my time with it is still very limited and I have not really played with sonar much at all…as a beginner it was good to have it ready to go without making any adjustments…
my thoughts the unit,
great for portablity without dealing with extra battery connections or tranducer mounting, I used 6 recharable double AA on my first test and battery still strong after 3 hours of use…the 110 and 120 do not extend, the tranducer is at a fixed position from the display…it will proably not be a good substitute in a boat…
I believe the wiring on battery case could have been of thicker wire, looks really thin,
The side view finder only tells you how far the fish are from you, but not thier depth.
Still testing, will do more this weekend.
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I used 6 recharable double AA on my first test and battery still strong after 3 hours of use
Prior to getting the Lithium cells for my 140c I loaded it up with six 2700 mAh NiMH rechargeables and let it run until it stopped (at home, but it was transmitting the whole time). It ran for 14 hours continuously, and NiMH cells will give shorter life because of their lower voltage (NiMH is 1.2V per cell and alkalines and lithiums are 1.5V). Nonetheless, with that kind of life NiMH cells seem to be a viable alternative, just recharge them each night before the next day’s fishing. At least you only have to buy them once.
I have used an old Fishing Buddy (Bottom Line) in the past. It gave me the temperature, the depth, and sometimes a fish out front. But the old one was very inaccurate - couldn’t see the fish on my line! And the structure of the bottom was very sketchy.
I now have a Hummingbird 565, and I really like it! I tells me the temperature, the depth and structure on the bottom, and the fish (as Micheal says - that I am not going to catch). I have found it to be really accurate on the fish depths, and it has better visuals of the bottom. I can see what is rocks, weeds, logs etc.
I think my Fishing Buddy is a 120 model. I get around 6 hours of continual use from 6 alkaline AA batteries (I usually buy Eveready because the commissary sells them in a 30 pack and my digial camera also uses 2 AAs so carrying 8 extras in one of my H3’s side pockets is no big deal:o)
I think my Fishing Buddy is a 120 model. I get around 6 hours of continual use from 6 alkaline AA batteries (I usually buy Eveready because the commissary sells them in a 30 pack and my digial camera also uses 2 AAs so carrying 8 extras in one of my H3’s side pockets is no big deal:o)
Wow, that’s pretty bad battery consumption considering Humminbird says that thing will go 30 hours on a set of AA alkalines. Do you run the backlight constantly?