The best highly portable depth/fish finder

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My "boat" is a 16ft Coleman RamX Scanoe with a Minnkota 30# thrust trolling motor. It's a great setup, but I really need to add a depth/fish finder. I'd like to be able to hook the depth finder up to my 12volt battery that also supplies power to the trolling motor and I'd like to spend $150 or less.

Any ideas? I don't know anything about what's out there for this item in this price range.

Thanks,

KW

[Ufatz]

Fear not, your worries are over. Head for Cabela's and look at the Fishing Buddies (something like that), small, very light battery powered (honest!) finders that work just fine. I have used them for years on rafts and even a float tube! One of the worlds great little products.They run on three C-cells. Should be in the trolling motor section of Cabela's.

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That sounds great, I'll have to take a look at those. Is there any way I could run those depth finders off of a 12v battery?

KW

[Bassboy1645]

yes there is. my uncle has his fishfinder wired to special little clips that that just clamp on to the battery. pretty nifty but he wired these clips himself. Not sure if you can buy them anywhere or if u have the skills to do somting like this. also another fishfinder to look at would be hummingbird pirahanna max. its a nice unti and very portable, but it might be just out of your price range. If all else fails, check at garge sales and hsolist, or just put a bug in ppls ear that ur looking for a fishfinder. same uncle who rigged his fishifnder that way gave me an eagle silet sixty that used to be my dads. FREE!!!!!!!!! Back in the day it was prolly a 330 dolllar unit but it still runs just as good as it used to

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After talking to some of my coworkers I think I'm leaning towards the Eagle Cuda 168 for about $99. I read the owners manual and it sounds like it has the features that I need. It doesn't come in a nifty carry case, but I guess I can figure something out to avoid scratching the screen.

KW