Good budget fish finder

[dingbat]

Re: Good budget fish finder

saltwater is throwing a curveball to me...

i liked the eagle 480df that drifter had posted, dual beam, 1500' depth (although i probably know it doesn't get that far), but the screen resolution got me, 480x480 pixels...

but that humminbird you posted, the 565, has 630v by 320h... torn now... still thinking of the eagle though

If screen resolution is so important why are the high end units running "low" resolution screens. I would think a state of the art $4K fish finder would have 1280 x 1024 resolution if that was the case.

Right now the best bang for the buck is a Furuno LS4100. No cheap plastic housings on these units. nothing but quality unit inside and out.

http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Furuno ...GFuZGluZw--?rd=1&AID=retrevo_ypno_psearch-shp

 

[fishrdan]

Re: Good budget fish finder

Right now the best bang for the buck is a Furuno LS4100.

I was looking at Funuro a while back and everyone I talked to had nothing but good things to say about them, I was eying the LS4100 also,,, I'm still eying it... From what I gather, Funuro designs their sonar's for saltwater applications, not sure if you would see any benefit if your fishing in shallow freshwater though If you're buying a Funuro make sure it comes with the transducer or you buy a transducer with it, some of their models do not include a transducer with the sonar head unit.

I haven't had a problem with my older Eagles... But, under any circumstance, stay away from BottomLine, they have horrid reviews and were sold off to Humminbird. I picked up a Bottomline 480MAX just to read depth while trolling, kind of a POS, but it was only $70