portable fish finder.????????

[Ridgerunnr]

Hitting some remote canadian lakes and would like to get a portable fish locator. I'm familiar w lowrance if that matters..any suggestions???

[leechlake]

I picked up Lowrance HDS5 portable because I had the non portable in my other boat and wanted to get one for a similar reason. I have a Vexilar and don't like it for open water. Works perfect, they did talk me into getting a high speed transducer. For my purposes I didn't need it, I just used the one that came with it and returned the extra.

You have the sonar and gps.

[Ridgerunnr]

Would it work as well for ice fishing as a vexilar if a diff ducer is used?

Trying to buy one unit to do both if its at all possible ??????

[leechlake]

I have never put it on the flasher feature so I don't know. My gut is it's a totally different animal but I'm not sure. I will try it out this weekend and get back on it.

[Tom7227]

I have a Vex and tried the open water transducer and didn't like it, probably because I didn't know how to use it. I just came back from the BWCA and I had bought a relatively cheap Lowrance X4 ($90) for the trip. I mounted it onto a battery case from an Eagle flasher and had a metal holder for the transducer. It worked well but was a real pain to screw around with on the portages.

[delcecchi]

I have switched to a suction cup for transducer. Works great. And the depthfinder and transducer will fit in a small toolbox (plano)

But when we travel I put it away. Can either carry it or put it in a pack. Runs off a couple 6v lantern batteries.