Fish Finder's

Most of the guys down here use Lowrance on the lakes and I think it'd do a nice job...lots of power and excellent daylight readability...but a guy who gets serious about depth-finders gets Furuno ;) ...
 
I have a guy here that swears by Lowrance, and he is pissed that I am not buying one!!
But I bought one about 5 years ago, and I hated it, Thats when I got the garmin.
 
I'm with you MJ, I have had a couple of eagle, hummingbird units in boats I bought over the years and they were OK. But the first good one I bought myself was the Lowrance color depth / gps. It was a good unit but it occassionally gave me weird software gliches and had to tech out on the phone with them, and other than doing resets they basically said ok send it in and we will check it out.
I had two friends with the Garmin version of color combo unit and they said it was great, no glitches and I had a black and white version I inherited on Old School that I sold to Mulv, it worked great, several years old and still ticking as far as I know.
Now I bought myself the Garmin color version and it is sweet, easy to see, no glitches at all and it's software is more instinctive and easier to use than the Lowrance unit.
The Furuno stuff is on my friends boat, but he has the expensive unit with radar and the big screen, it has been great so far this season, very nice but out of my price range.
Over all I think Garmin has been the best for me and for the friends of mine that have them.
 
BS, I use a 250 (not color though) and I agree, it holds bottom at full speed, where others I've owned couldn't come close. There sure are better units, but the 250 is a good bang for the buck.
 
THEFERMANATOR said:
FURUNO makes an EXCELLENT UNIT!!!! But they are hard to see in the sunlight.
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I have the Furuno 620 and love it so I totally disagree with the above statement.

Speaking for the my FF, it is VERY clear even on bright sunny days, one can change the LCD background color for night or what have you, also I can read fish as deep as 200 feet at 40 MPH.......beat that! :-*
 
what transducer did you get with it?? I got the Airmar tilt thur hull $221 , I could not use the transom ducer as my trim tabs are in the way.

I have not installed yet cause I am so busy at works, school and I am moving!!

Thanks!
 
MJ, I have the P-66 which is the transom mount. YOu should have the B-60-12, or the B-60-20, they are the thru-hull tilted element ducer's and are said to be incredible. I will have one one of these days. GarageNC has that in his V. the 12 or 20 are different models to compensate for deadrise, so I hope you got the right one.

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If you have the tilted element ducer, yes, the last two numbers were for the dearise. Basically, one for mod v boats and one for deep v, it doesn't have to be perfect to work.
 
I have the 12, but they did not even offer the 20 on there site??

I guess I will have to call them! But I have no time for nothing right now :'(
 
macojoe said:
I have narrowed it down to 3, what do you guys think??

Furuno fvc620,

Sitex CVS-833,

Raymarine DS600


Sitex is the only one that says viewable in sunlight??
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All three of those would be good choice, and all are quality products. Why aren't you going back with a Garmin? Garmin products are pretty bullet proof. After a Garmin, I would probably go with the Furuno though.
 
BC I have never bought a top of the line FF before. I loved the little Garmin I had, but with a bigger boat I will be going deeper for Cod soon and wanted something more powerful.

I have bought and have here the Furuno 620 But have no time to install at this time as I am moving. :'(

But the question here now is weather or not I have the right transducer? I have ther Airmar tilted thur hull.

But it is the 12, and Air says they also have a 20, But there was no option for a 20 when I bought mine so I got the 12 not knowing.

My 1984 23 Sea Ox W/around has a 20* deadrise so looks like I might have gotten the wrong one??

Do you have any insite on this??

Thanks!
 
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