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Offline KFhunter

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Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« on: March 09, 2021, 10:11:48 AM »
It's going on a small 14' boat with 20hp tiller.  I bought an $89 dollar Lowrance hook from walmart, but thinking about it I want GPS as I fish lake Roosevelt and want to mark my walleye spots.

Going to return the Lowrance, I didn't even open the box.

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2021, 10:23:12 AM »
Pretty tough to do. The hook reveal has gps and should be sub 300.

Or buy something used. The older HDS models can be found for 200-300.

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2021, 10:26:28 AM »
Mark your spots with OnX or some other phone GPS program.  I have all kinds of random stuff saved on OnX, I pop it open whenever I need it.

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2021, 10:33:27 AM »
Mark your spots with OnX or some other phone GPS program.  I have all kinds of random stuff saved on OnX, I pop it open whenever I need it.
  :yeah: I've been using Navionics and I'd recommend it to anyone who fishes.
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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2021, 11:16:08 AM »
I have a Garmin Striker 4 which I like. Has sonar, GPS (waypoints and tracks), temp, speed, etc. It does not have charts.

I also have navionics on my cell phone which basically gives you everything but the sonar. It also gives you nautical charts. Navionics is pretty cheap.

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2021, 12:32:38 PM »
Mark your spots with OnX or some other phone GPS program.  I have all kinds of random stuff saved on OnX, I pop it open whenever I need it.
  :yeah: I've been using Navionics and I'd recommend it to anyone who fishes.
I'm downloading navonics

In app purchases, this for maps?

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2021, 01:16:15 PM »
Wow, navonics is like onx on crack!


Thanks!

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2021, 02:27:06 PM »
I decided to keep my non-GPS hook and use my phone, so I can use it in Dads boat too.

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2021, 02:30:55 PM »
Another benefit is when your fishfinder abruptly dies you don't lose all your spots.  With some apps, it's stored up in the cloud so you can always get them back.  I lost a bunch of magic sockeye spots on Lake WA....ok, probably not the best example of a big loss.

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Re: Best GPS enabled fish finder under $200?
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2021, 02:33:35 PM »
I bought the upgraded navonics, sync in the cloud.

Wifi to Dads much nicer fish finder too.



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