Good Fish finder

[Bassinator]

My dad and I are thinking about replacing one of our fishfinders and we are looking in the 200 to 300 price range. Any suggestions?

[olgrizz]

Hummingbird 565 about $230.00 If you want a GPS with it, hummingbird 580 about $350. These aren't color units but both have high pixels and do a good job

[Smj]

Originally Posted by Bassinator

My dad and I are thinking about replacing one of our fishfinders and we are looking in the 200 to 300 price range. Any suggestions?

You can get a good "Depth Finder" for that kind of money, I don't believe you can get a good "Fish Finder" for that.

Color, and high pixel count is where it's at!
Just my opinion.

Smj

[whatugetemon]

Check around for the Humminbird 757c. I think I paid $399 for mine, but prices may have dropped. It's a GPS/FF combo and a lot of unit for the money.

[Smj]

These are pics of perch, some taking our bait. I don't believe you can get this good with a $200.00-$300.00 finder. This unit is a Lowrance 102c, the newer model is a 510c I think, Fishermans has them now for $499.00.




This photo shows a perch going from 50.2' up to 40' to grab a piece of discarded bait, old worm. At the bottom of the photo, the two black lines are sinker and bait, bait on the bottom. There are four perch in the photo comming up from the bottom to check things out, many times they seemed very curiuos about our sinkers. The bottom of the photo shows many perch from 48-50'

The keys; High pixel count finder, 480x480, color would be best. I think if you running 240x240, or less, it may be tough to get a good picture, zooming may help though. Turn finder to maunual mode, if your seeing little fishie shapes on the screen you've got it wrong. Turn sensitivity to maximum. Turn zoom to maximum, mine is 4x on this finder.

Smj

[MXRacer105]

Good post... thanks for the screen shot

[Bassinator]

Thank you so much for the input.. I really want GPS with way points but its too expensive. haha

[Chad S.]

I found the 520 at sportco a while back for $499. Thats a steel! I only believe in lowarance, and yes i've tried different stuff. You should be able to get a good used color/gps lowarance one on ebay in your pricerange.