Portable Fish Finder Question

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You can use a lot of "non-portable" depth finders with two 6 volt lantern batteries. All you have to do is figure out a way to make the transducer portable. I made a portable transducer one time by taking a piece of aluminum pipe, flattening the ends with a hammer, drilling holes on one end and mounting the transducer on it, and mounting a spring clip to the other end to hang it from the gunwales. I suppose that the more features there are on the depth finder the quicker it uses up batteries, but I'd get several trips from a no-frills depth finder. Might be easier just to buy a portable one, though.

I've been using "non portable" finders for quite a while on my Coleman Crawdad when I fished it on small ponds and strip mines and floated the Saline and Ouchata rivers in Arkansas and on rental aluminum boats in Ontario and I never had a problem using the suction cup transducer mount. About 10 years ago I bought a Cabelas sealed 8 ampere hour battery which comes with a charger and sells for around $25.00. It has never run down during a days fishing ,charges over night and now I use it to power my cuda mounted on my trolling motor on my and have had no trouble with it.

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on my trolling motor on my and have had no trouble with it.

on my Tracker and have had no trouble with it.

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