Portable Fish Finder

hey guy,

was looking at getting a portable fish finder for the upcoming season and was wondering if you guys used or have any you recommend.


cheers guys!

What's your price range??
This may eliminate some suggestions...

For a really good low budget unit, take a look at the Garmin Striker 4.

Agree with Paddy, Striker 4 is fantastic. Works well even in deep water.

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definitely worth taking a look at.

$100-$500 price range

ill take a look at it.

thanks a lot!

Humminbird helix 5 I use it on boat and ice fishing.

I have a helix 5 g2 for sale only used 3 time buy it last year paid 850 at fishing world whit ice tranducer and the one who go on the boat can be use as a portable or fix on the boat will take 550 for it you can pm me

I have a striker 4. This is My first year with it. Worked great for the hard water season. For the money it can’t be beat.

That's a great deal for the Helix 5 and the ice ducer. Been running the Helix 5 for a couple years now. Perfect Unit for the ice and boat.

The helix 5 I have all the book and the box

If fishing over 75ft make sure it has at least 500 rms and 4000watts peak to peak

Garmin Striker 4 is either $130 or $150 at Costco right now. Not the portable pack (which is about $270 with battery and carry bag) but just the unit with a pedestal mount. It is only 200W rms. So if what Fish Guru said is correct, then it will not be good enough for fishing deeper than 75 FOW? So chkng, how deep was the "deep water" you said it was good in?
I may consider this unit as I don't usually fish deeper than 75 FOW but of course would like to have the option as KBay has some waters that are great than 100'. Given that I am still using a very old Eagle SeaFinder 320DF (which still works fine for me to at least 80'), any new unit should be much better (and colour too). LOL.

I run a helix 5 di for ice and my canoe for backwater fishing, absolutely love it but it’s pricier then the garmin