Fish Finder Recommendations

[greenwoodmo]

I'm looking to purchase a nice fish finder. Something less than $350. I don't care if it has a color graph or not. Just something that works well. I'm planning on doing a lot of walleye fishing on Stockton and LOZ so accuracy is the most important thing. I talked to a couple of guys at the Bass Pro and they said one of the Raymarine models is the one they would use. Lowrance looks like they make a couple of models that are nice too. I'm looking for some advice on this one. Thanks.

[Flysmallie]

There are tons out there to choose from. I have been impressed lately with the Lowrance products, of course most of the ones I have been in awe over are the ones that cost around $2,000 .

They do have a model X125 that sells for around $299.00. It's a very nice unit and includes the transducer. It has a 5" display with 480 x 480 resolution. Peak to Peak Power is 2,400 Watts.

Now if you want to spend a little more, around $399.00, get the X135. It's the same unit with Peak to Peak Power of 4,000 Watts. That will make it a lot more accurate.

[greenwoodmo]

Thanks

[LWW]

greenwoodmo,

I'll put my thoughts in cause I was in your situation 6 months ago. What I found I couldn't be more happy with. I live in Tulsa, OK where Lowrance actually has their homeoffice. My friends buddy works for Lowrance here and gave me some good advice. If you aren't aware, Eagle products are owned and made by Lowrance also. If you compare many models of Eagle products with the Lowrance products you will start to find many of them are very close to identical except for the price. Specifically the one I got and would suggest to you. The Eagle FishElite 480 for $349.00. It has everything. GPS w/map software upgrades, an incredible graph that reads with outstanding detail, split screen and everything. It is the "excact" same graph Lowrance offers in their line as the LMS 480 for $499.00. I won't go into all the detail it has cause you can research that, but I will say it has been everything I need for my new Triton I got. I will have to comend the GPS trail capability to show you where you've been, what are "safe routes", or even better yet "successful routes" which all can be saved and used later.

Dollar for dollar, I think the FishElite 480 is one of the best graphs you can buy. The only thing it lacks is color, which Eagle will give you for $449.00 on the FishElite 500C/502C. Which if you have a hundred extra dollars you can't beat the color monitor with internal GPS(502C model) meaning you don't have to find a place to mount your GPS antena.

Check out Eagle though. They've got good stuff.

LWW

[Ealy]

Depending on the amount of money you have to spend, I'd recommend the Eagle Fishmark 320 on the low end. It has enough power to see your bait on the screen when dropped right under the transducer. Bass Pro has been selling them for a little over $150.00. If you have more to spend, I'd recommend a Lowrance X-15 or X-17.