heres old school for ya

[Boar]

Not the old green ox but cool portable depth finder, have had it on ice an works fine, neat piece of sonar history. boar

[ditchpickle6996]

heck yeah,,, love the mustard yellow

[KNIGHT]

That's cool Boar!!

[Gissert]

Very cool, but did you get Viggy Stardust out there?

[Hawg]

I've got the axact same one in the 30 footer in my garage!

[Rick G]

Got one in the garage somewhere in the rafters probabley close to my old green box lowrance. Man that was state of the art back in the day when I started icefishing a couple-few decades ago .

[UKCM]

Now that brings back memories. We had one like this but we only used it for open water fishing. We must of bought ours around 1978. My dad had me do the shopping. I got to do the research, old school fashion. Meaning I went to the one place in town that sold fishing stuff and talked to the guy at the store. No HSO to get a variety of opinions from.

I was more of a fishing nut than my dad and the fact that he trusted this to me was a big deal to me at the time. I guess I am still doing it as he is still fishing at 80 and I picked out some new rain bibs for him for Christmas. I followed the same advice he gave me back then, I don't want the cheapest or the most expensive, find something in the middle of the road.

boar thanks for bringing back one of my favorite memories. And oh yeah just knowing the depth up in Canada helped us catch a ton more fish.

[PerchJerker]

Still remember the first time I ever saw one of the those ..... my Grandpa showed up with it and we stuck the suction cup transducer mount to the back of the boat, and away we went .....

[simple1]

Now that is cool. My father had the old green box but when i asked him for it, he could not find it and thinks it was stolen from his garage. I would love to find that old thing.

[cavalierowner]

Very cool!! Makes me wish I hadn't given away my old Herters flasher.

[Finlander]

I used to have an old Vexilar that was blue in color and similar type of locator.

Rigged it up for Ice fishing putting a leveling bubble on top of the transducer to get the signal directly under the hole and it worked good as I used this prior to the FL-8 coming out and I would see the crappies suspended below and get the jig in there face and catch em! People thought I was crazy using it until I was the only one catching fish!

Later when the FL-8's got popular, I would use this old Vex and it really messed up the FL-8's screen with interference but mine worked just fine!

[LightningBG]

I still have one of the old green boxes. Never used. Still in the box with the receipts from when my Grandma ordered it for Gramps from the local implement dealer.

I also still have a Micronar FL8.

[KrappieKilla]

LightningBG

I have the same one, green box lo-k-tor, sitting in my garage that I bought at a garage sale for 10 bucks just for fun! I took it out and it worked and even showed my 1/4oz jig, never looked into its value though. Are these worth anything?

[LightningBG]

LightningBG

I have the same one, green box lo-k-tor, sitting in my garage that I bought at a garage sale for 10 bucks just for fun! I took it out and it worked and even showed my 1/4oz jig, never looked into its value though. Are these worth anything?

I'm not really sure. I've never looked into it.

[Boar]

the green box is older than my plastic beige one, so they would be worth money to a colector, I would pay 100 bucks for a green box just to have along side my flip top one.

[ditchpickle6996]

saw one identical to this on c's list today for $50

[ditchpickle6996]

not hso list,,, the one by craig

[leech~~]

I still have one of the old green boxes. Never used. Still in the box with the receipts from when my Grandma ordered it for Gramps from the local implement dealer.

I also still have a Micronar FL8.

Some one needs to bring one of these up to the Flasher Shootout GTG we are having on Jan 7th at Appledorns on Mill Lacs. That would be something to put it up against some of the new models to see how it does.

[Nutz4Crappie]

I have my Grandpa's green box. I used it until I got my Marcum LX-5. It works great. My Grandpa used it every year up in Canada as his only electronics ever until he passed. Now I keep it to remember him and all the great trips we had together.

[CITY LIMITS]

Wow these old sonars are cool and in very good shape .

[LightningBG]

They weren't cheap either. State of the art. Back in 83 when mine was purchased it cost $319. Adjust for inflation and that's $700 today, same as a LX7. But didn't they come out in the late 50's? Who knows, maybe my Grandma was behind the curve on this one.

[tsande00]

My Dad has had one (Green box) for as long as I can remember and we still use the thing! Put it in the small aluminum boat for fishing local lakes.

Do these green boxes show your jig/bait like the modern units do? If so I'll grab it and use it as a spare in the winter.

[Down Deep]

About 10 years ago I bought a green box at a yard sale for $20.00. I used it for a year on a 12 foot boat I used fish some pothole lakes. I eventually gave it to a friend of mine, who passed it along to his son. I'm fairly sure it is still in use today.

[Hawg]

No they do not show much of anything besides depth. Not a good choice for ice fishing.

[not_nuf_time]

They do show the jig.