Best Depth finder under $300

[rangertee]

Hummingbird 565, has the best resolution in the price range. $199.00, I think it is on sale at BPS right now for $179.00, I've had mine since around Christmas and like it very much. Another nice feature is the transducer trade in, I bought mine for the font, and sent in the transom mount xducer and for $5.00 they sent me the trolling motor mount one.

crichison -- you can't buy the 565 with a troll motor xducer with temp ??

[Knappy]

wait on another $100 and go get a x-135 lowrance--

[SteveJ]

Another vote for Eagle 480.

[NIMROD]

Just my 2cents , but. I would buy a cheap Eagle Cuda and a Garmin ETREX GPS and spend the rest on fishing gear. I use these and find my stumps and brush piles with ease. I have my transducer on my trolling motor. The hand help GPS means I can also take it with other boats or hunting.:D

[FalconSmitty]

Hummingbird 565, has the best resolution in the price range. $199.00, I think it is on sale at BPS right now for $179.00, I've had mine since around Christmas and like it very much. Another nice feature is the transducer trade in, I bought mine for the font, and sent in the transom mount xducer and for $5.00 they sent me the trolling motor mount one.

I have the same unit and I love it.. It helps me catch crappie everytrip...great graphics and dummy proof buttons

[crappieken]

I am very happy with my Eagle 480

[CrappieTexan]

I have a Eagle 320 and works great and way under $300.00........ has no GPS but I have a Garmin hand held $99.00 that holds 500 waypoints.... when I go fishing with my crappie buddies I can mark new spots NO PROBLEM.....
Good fishing..........

[fishman78]

I just bought a eagle fishmark 160 for the front of the boat for $89 from cabelas. It has a big screen for the $ and is easy to use. Only thing I dont like is it dosent keep a memory of most your settings when you turn it off.

[Drawout]

Another vote for Eagle 480

[crichison]

crichison -- you can't buy the 565 with a troll motor xducer with temp ??

I'm not sure if you can buy it with the trolling motor xducer directly from a retailer or not. BPS only had it with the transom mount xducer. They do sell a conversion kit so you can mount the transom one on the trolling motor. I elected to trade it in and get the one designed for the troll motor. Both setups have temp.