My boat is a 14 foot johnboat. I bought it used. It came with an Eagle Fishfinder. I don't know the model number. There were no instructions for it when I bought the boat. It puts little fish symbols on the screen which I like. It maps the bottom with a series fo small black squares, & it tells the depth. But it seems pretty well outdated when I look at the pictures of the nearer fish finders. With mine, I really can't tell what the bottom is like. Or maybe I should say what the bottom structure is like.
I've been looking at a Hummingbird 535 on the Bass Pro Shop website.
http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catal...kEnabled=false
It still has the little fish symbols and an indication of the depth at each fish. I like that. And from the picture, it looks like you can identify stumps or rocks or whatever on the bottom. I like that, also.
It isn't in color, but that's no big deal to me. It doesn't make paper charts, but that's OK too.
The price is around $150. I like that.
But not nothing much at all about fish finders, I wonder if I'm missing something? Is that a good fish finder for a recreational crappie fisherman? I'm not a tournament fisherman & I won't be able to fish all the time. Just an occasional trip.
I guess one thing I want to know is, say, I'm in 30 feet of water, & the screen shows a stump on the bottom. The transducer is on the transom of the boat. I'm sitting at the back with the outboard. If I fish straight down, am I going to be somewhere near that stump? Close enough to catch fish? Or is the stump going to be 20 feet behind me?
Thanks
Tugaloo