Ok...This for you guys that have and fish with a GPS...I have a Humminbird 717 and from what I understand, I can buy a GPS antenna and hook it up and it will give me a "Birds Eye View" on the screen. I guess that is good enough for me to mark some waypoints etc. but not really what I want. My boat is has a steering console and I would really like to have full GPS capabilities when I am driving the boat plus have the same capabilities while I am in the front of the boat trolling. The only reason I even want a GPS is to mark the channels, occasionally mark a good spot and for trolling speed. I have been kicking some options around.
#1- Buying a Humminbird 755c for the console and hooking up an Interlink cable to the 717 up front. But I am not real sure what all I could do on the 717 with that option.
#2- Buying a handheld with 2 docking bases...1 for the console and 1 for the front and just move it from place to place, although I was hoping for something more permanent.

I am on a budget...well sorta....but I am open to any suggestions you guys have. Fall is right around the corner and this is the only thing left that I am wanting to have by then...It's not really necessary because I can find the fish without a GPS as I have in the past, but it can sure make a day on the water easier and hopefully more productive.

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The cheapest way would be a Garmin 72 or the next one up. I have a 72 and 86. I feel that it is easier to fish by transfering my waypoints from a 997 to my PC, rename and transfer to my handheld GPS that I can use on the console or front.

Hope this helps.

Chuck

I just bought a 2nd hand Humminbird 383c and gonna try and learn on this one. I am gonna put it in the front of the boat to troll by and just put my 717 on the console....We'll see how it goes. I'll probably move on to bigger and better things once I am familiar with GPS.

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Thats good to know....It will be next weekend before I can go to the lake and try it out...Is there a way to save the data on the 383c to your computer?

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I use a hand held Garmin GPS. When I go out into the ocean I mark where i launch my boat.. I enter it into the memory . While out I mark the different places I catch fish. When I get ready to head back in I go to my setting and it takes me back into the Marina. It picks up 12 satellights any place I go in the country.I also use it when I'm training my Homing pigeons. It gives me the distance they are flying home. You guys that have a GPS I will enter Data that you can enter and find out the air miles where I live, N 43 14 933
W 115 50 176

Ken, it looks like you're a couple of thousands miles from me but if I figured this correctly you are nearly 500 miles to the ocean. That a long haul to do any ocean fishing.
"gene"

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Which way did they go, which way did they go!

Google Earth shows that location to be in a field in Idaho across the road from a dwelling.

Yes Gene your right I am 500 miles from the Ocean. I pull my Boat all the way.
Yes there is a Dwelling across the road from me. I live out in the desert.

Your right sir Here is a Gps reading in Canada wear I catch Halibut--
48 57 903
125 39 313

cod 48 56 160
125 34 079

When ever I go out and catch fiah in the Pacific I always take a reading on my GPS and write it down.