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Depth finder/GPS
Posted on 3/4/14 at 4:45 am
Posted on 3/4/14 at 4:45 am
Ny old one crapper out, so I'm looking to replace it with a Depth finder/gps combo. What is a decent one for under 500$? This is going on my 17' Xpress
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Posted on 3/4/14 at 4:54 am to choupic
Powpow has a humminbird 587 something or another. It's pretty fancy.
ETA: pretty sure he paid under $500 for it
ETA: pretty sure he paid under $500 for it
This post was edited on 3/4/14 at 4:55 am
Posted on 3/4/14 at 5:15 am to Big_country346
Fresh or saltwater? There is a difference in the transducers along with mapping. Oh, $500 is not going to buy much.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 6:05 am to choupic
If you can find one on eBay or amazon look at the Lowrance elite 5 dsi. Good chartplotter and fish finder.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 6:39 am to choupic
Lowrance Elite 5HDI
Posted on 3/4/14 at 6:40 am to rballa19
Yep
Posted on 3/4/14 at 7:12 am to rballa19
quote:
Lowrance Elite 5HDI
Posted on 3/4/14 at 7:16 am to tilco
Lowrance elite 5HDI
I have the dsi model and love it
I have the dsi model and love it
This post was edited on 3/4/14 at 7:17 am
Posted on 3/4/14 at 7:28 am to choupic
500 ain't gonna buy much. I bough a Lowrance Elite 5 last summer and wish I would hVe splurged for something better.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 9:45 am to choupic
thanks. That's one of the ones I was looking at.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 10:02 am to boom roasted
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wish I would hVe splurged for something better.
Always the case, the Elite 5 seems like a nice unit. I have a Mark 4 on my trolling motor that works well and is pretty cheap. Upgrading the console unit to a HDS 8, cant wait for that to come in.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 10:32 am to choupic
Where are you fishing?
The available maps for a given machine are just as important as the machine itself.
If the map sucks, the machine becomes much less useful as a gps.
The Lowrance HDS series supports the Standard Mapping eCard. I think I read that the Elite 7 does also. The Standard Mapping eCard is the satellite photo map that most people use for LA marsh reference, that is overlayed on the base map of the machine.
When you look at a machine in the store, dial up a view of some obscure area that you usually fish and see what it looks like. See if it looks like water or land.
The available maps for a given machine are just as important as the machine itself.
If the map sucks, the machine becomes much less useful as a gps.
The Lowrance HDS series supports the Standard Mapping eCard. I think I read that the Elite 7 does also. The Standard Mapping eCard is the satellite photo map that most people use for LA marsh reference, that is overlayed on the base map of the machine.
When you look at a machine in the store, dial up a view of some obscure area that you usually fish and see what it looks like. See if it looks like water or land.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 10:36 am to Grassy1
any of you guys use or know anything about the small portable depth finders/gps? for us pond prowler types?
Posted on 3/4/14 at 10:58 am to laangler21
quote:The features are fine but the mapping software is terrible. 75% of the marsh we fish shows up as land. We just have to use printable maps in addition to the GPS mapping software.
the Elite 5 seems like a nice unit
Posted on 3/4/14 at 11:06 am to choupic
Posted on 3/4/14 at 12:22 pm to cgrand
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garmin 421S
LINK /
under budget and superior mapping
Can you define superior mapping?
Maybe post some pics of screenshots in some known marsh areas?
Although, we still don't know where the OP wants to use this machine.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 12:26 pm to choupic
I have no business interest in Standard Mapping, but I probably should as much as push their product.
From what I've seen, there's just nothing close for seeing where you're at in our changing marsh.
Click on eCard
From what I've seen, there's just nothing close for seeing where you're at in our changing marsh.
Click on eCard
Posted on 3/4/14 at 12:36 pm to Grassy1
the garmin basemap is pretty generic, but their new mapping software (basecamp, which replaced mapsource) is tits. also, you can download a satellite image and use it as your map, which is what i do for wax lake outlet, for example
USTopo is a good map that shows the marshes pretty well, and there's lots of others
garmin is the standard for affordable accurate mapping, but their sounders are not up to furuno (for example) quality. just depends on what you are doing
OP says he's putting it on a 17' boat so i think we can assume he's going to be inshore
heres a screenshot
USTopo is a good map that shows the marshes pretty well, and there's lots of others
garmin is the standard for affordable accurate mapping, but their sounders are not up to furuno (for example) quality. just depends on what you are doing
OP says he's putting it on a 17' boat so i think we can assume he's going to be inshore
heres a screenshot
This post was edited on 3/4/14 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 3/4/14 at 2:07 pm to cgrand
I can't see it that well, but it looks pretty darn good.
Any way that you can get a satellite image on your gps is key imo.
Is this a new feature on Garmin? I've never heard anyone explaining/selling this.
Any way that you can get a satellite image on your gps is key imo.
Is this a new feature on Garmin? I've never heard anyone explaining/selling this.
Posted on 3/4/14 at 8:32 pm to Grassy1
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the Elite 5 seems like a nice unit
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The features are fine but the mapping software is terrible. 75% of the marsh we fish shows up as land. We just have to use printable maps in addition to the GPS mapping software.
100% agree with this. I was disappointed in the mapping and wished I had chosen better.
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