What bottom machine-transducer works 4 you?

[Taz Lancaster]

Winter is here and Im gonna be upgrading my sounder. Right now I have the Furuno 667 w/ transom mount ducer. It sucks past 50 fathoms. Should I buy a thru hull transducer or a new unit w/ transducer. Anyway what do you have ,how does it work,would you buy it again and if you did it over what would you get? Thanks Gang..

[bitemysister]

Taz, I use a RAY C120, 1KW thru hull. Works unreal!! Can pick up the wiggly worm on the nose of an anglerfish at 100 fathoms. Well, that may have been dust on the display. Anyway, got it off of ebay and saved big bucks...

[TommyTuna]

[Q]Taz Lancaster originally wrote:
Winter is here and Im gonna be upgrading my sounder. Right now I have the Furuno 667 w/ transom mount ducer. It sucks past 50 fathoms. Should I buy a thru hull transducer or a new unit w/ transducer. Anyway what do you have ,how does it work,would you buy it again and if you did it over what would you get? Thanks Gang..
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that unit is less than 600w for sure(i think 350w), a thru hull won't make much difference in depth, maybe more clarity.

if u NEED to see the bottom clearly over 100 fathoms then get a 1kw unit and thru hull. The new Raymarine's i have seen are excellent, as are Furuno, buyers choice

[Taz Lancaster]

Yea thats the thing I never fish inshore only off and wreck fish,so I need to be able to mark some stuff especially bait I hate not being able to see whats under me w/ what I have now.. Thanks Guys.

[HIT N RUN]

1kw tru hull. If your fishing in the deep, IMO you should only be looking @ the top 40 fat anyway if you are trolling. Take the sounder off auto & set the range & gain to see the thermocline & above.

[surfperch1]

I have and am using the Raymarine E80 with the DSM 300 interface to a 1kw thru hull w/Fairing Block.

I also have a Furuno 525 on my new boat and it does not even come close to picking up the fish like my Raymarine system. It will even help you to see if larger fish are feeding in a bait ball.

Now for a radar the Furuno Systems has the advantage.

[Miles Offshore]

have you guys running the rays experianced any problems with interference/ static on your radios?

[K.R.]

Furuno 1850 with 1000watt through hull transducer. I can see the bottom at 2500' although I see much more definition at 1000'.

[justkiddin]

I have dual c-120's with 1kw thru hull with fairing bracket and it is awesome. Have not tried it offshore yet but works great in Bay. Old boat had c-80 with transom mount transducer and dsm300 and I thought that was the bomb- Thru hull is the ticket and Raymarine has gotten their stuff dialed in for sure

[On The Line]

Airmar B260 through hull transducer...check it out, well worth the $$. It does require a quite large fairing block though.