fishing buddy fish finder

[Mo Fish]

Hi i am new here and just wanted to say thanks for running a great site.!!!

i had a question about the fishing buddy 1200. Does anyone have first hand experience with them. how well do they preform?, and are they good for shalow rivers like clack, sandy. are they worth the 169.00 $??? or is it not what it seems to be???????

thank you

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[Katchun Release]

Well, Mo, we've used a Fishin' Buddy II for years, because if you jig off a 22 foot boat, it's nice to have that info right in front of your eyes on the back of the boat: salmon? how deep????

Ours worked great for oh, 6 years or so, but this last trip to Chinook, it decided the water was one foot deep and wouldn't budge in that opinion. I doubt it's worth sending in to fix it; but I'm going to call Bottom Line and find out. I'd buy another; we used ours ice fishing too.

Katchun

[Gizmo Man]

KR. I had a FB 1 that had problems. When I called 6 mos. or so, ago, there policy was a flat fee for a replacement. The fee for the 1 was about $95 as I recall. They glue the two shells together around the unit and said they don't repair them. If its just the transducer, maybe you can see if someone has a broken unit and buy it and replace the bottom half. May have to cut and resolder the wires.

Giz...