Thread: Fishfinder and GPS unit on Florida waters

Hi all,

I have been looking through the crappie.com electronics posts trying to find the best GPS fishfinder combo. But I wanted to get some florida freshwater fishermans opinions. Because we have more vegetation than most any where and normally fish is depths far less than those northerns. I have a really hard time with my current sonar reading water less than 5 feet.

Please help me cause I want to buy a nice unit $700 or so and don't want to go off the reviews from a guy fishing on 20 to 30 feet of water on Kentucky Lake.

Thanks

I own a Humminbird 787c and have caught a pile with it,but I'm saving my coins ups for a new model,check this out http://humminbird.factoryoutletstore.com

.There is a factory outlet now.

I have a Lowrance M68C and it is the first combo I ever had. Pleased with it as to how it works, just wish it had a bigger screen.
Dusty

Thanks guys. I am definately going to check out that factory store.

Do you guys have any problems with saving hot spots and uploading new software?

Originally Posted by SpeckTracker

Hi all,

I have been looking through the crappie.com electronics posts trying to find the best GPS fishfinder combo. But I wanted to get some florida freshwater fishermans opinions. Because we have more vegetation than most any where and normally fish is depths far less than those northerns. I have a really hard time with my current sonar reading water less than 5 feet.

Please help me cause I want to buy a nice unit $700 or so and don't want to go off the reviews from a guy fishing on 20 to 30 feet of water on Kentucky Lake.

Thanks

I ran Garmin sonars for several years in fla. they worked very good in 4-6 ft---never had gps at that time -

You have to buy a cord for connection to your PC,but it is pretty cheap,I have close to 300 marked spots in about 30 fl lakes.Mostly just deep spots and holes in the lakes.Take a look at this weekends catch.Found them on the Fish Finder and circled them with the GPS the rest of the time.Life is good.

Originally Posted by #1 SuS-speck

You have to buy a cord for connection to your PC,but it is pretty cheap,I have close to 300 marked spots in about 30 fl lakes.Mostly just deep spots and holes in the lakes.Take a look at this weekends catch.Found them on the Fish Finder and circled them with the GPS the rest of the time.Life is good.

Very Nice Catch! Don't know how you can fish in the heat. It's hot out!

Chad;
I run a Lowrance LC-X25.
Been running it for bout 3-4 years now, have been very happy with it.
Here's some pics....
#1= Lake Harney

#2= Lower right cluster blown up (Blue/white X's= a fish caught, trolling)

#3= BIG catfish

#4= Crappie

#5= More Crappie

7" screen,
Depth readings inaccurate below 3ft.
I have computer program for viewing/manipulating sim card data, etc.
Most units do, etc.......

I only fished from 7a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and caught 18,left because my battery went dead.Good day though,might try again this weekend.

I lived and fished in Fla for over 20 yrs. There is limited water where sonar is useful. We always fished the grass, cattails , pencil reeds , and hydrilla. The crappie were caught in the winter mo. in the grass. Most of Fla lakes are shallow and loaded with grass. A good GPS will be good. After a time you will learn the lakes and wont even need the GPS, You cant go wrong with Hummingbird or Lowrance . If you can scratch up $700.00 go ahead and splurge on the $1000.00 unit. You wont regret it.