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Pocket fish finder
Has anyone used these little things before ?
I might have thrown away 59 dollars yesterday, but I bought one for use with my Hobie out back fishing kayak, this thing has a transducer that has a float on it, and 30 feet of cable that can be thrown out from the boat, pier, or bank, to look for fish and give the depth. It uses four AA batteries, which is great for the little outback (no huge heavy 12 volt battery needed) I will be using NiMh rechargibles in it. ANyone with any experience with it that can share will be appreciated -- Rodney Long, Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks , Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com |
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Let us know what you think after a field test, Rodney. I have a Bottom Line
Fishing Buddy that I use on my pond boats and when tubing. It's a good little unit for the boats (probably a good choice for your kayak) and has a temperature gauge, but is a bit of a nuisance hanging on the tube. As far as needing a 12 volt battery, most portable models of standard depth finders run on 2-6 volt lantern batteries. My "Buddy" uses 3 C-cells. Matt "Rodney" wrote in message ... Has anyone used these little things before ? I might have thrown away 59 dollars yesterday, but I bought one for use with my Hobie out back fishing kayak, this thing has a transducer that has a float on it, and 30 feet of cable that can be thrown out from the boat, pier, or bank, to look for fish and give the depth. It uses four AA batteries, which is great for the little outback (no huge heavy 12 volt battery needed) I will be using NiMh rechargibles in it. ANyone with any experience with it that can share will be appreciated -- Rodney Long, Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks , Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com |
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Use a 4 or 6 amp gell cell.
"Matt" wrote in message news:dBHIb.23887$xX.88659@attbi_s02... Let us know what you think after a field test, Rodney. I have a Bottom Line Fishing Buddy that I use on my pond boats and when tubing. It's a good little unit for the boats (probably a good choice for your kayak) and has a temperature gauge, but is a bit of a nuisance hanging on the tube. As far as needing a 12 volt battery, most portable models of standard depth finders run on 2-6 volt lantern batteries. My "Buddy" uses 3 C-cells. Matt "Rodney" wrote in message ... Has anyone used these little things before ? I might have thrown away 59 dollars yesterday, but I bought one for use with my Hobie out back fishing kayak, this thing has a transducer that has a float on it, and 30 feet of cable that can be thrown out from the boat, pier, or bank, to look for fish and give the depth. It uses four AA batteries, which is great for the little outback (no huge heavy 12 volt battery needed) I will be using NiMh rechargibles in it. ANyone with any experience with it that can share will be appreciated -- Rodney Long, Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks , Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com |
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I suggest using Lithium AA batteries. They last *much* longer. They are just not
rechargeable. Radio Shack and Sears sells them. Dave "Rodney" wrote in message ... | Has anyone used these little things before ? | | I might have thrown away 59 dollars yesterday, but I bought one for use | with my Hobie out back fishing kayak, this thing has a transducer that | has a float on it, and 30 feet of cable that can be thrown out from the | boat, pier, or bank, to look for fish and give the depth. | | It uses four AA batteries, which is great for the little outback (no | huge heavy 12 volt battery needed) I will be using NiMh rechargibles in it. | | ANyone with any experience with it that can share will be appreciated | -- | Rodney Long, | Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks , | Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, | and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com | |
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David H. Lipman wrote:
I suggest using Lithium AA batteries. They last *much* longer. They are just not rechargeable. Radio Shack and Sears sells them. This unit will run 18 hours on four AA NiMh batteries, they recharge in 1 hour, can be recharged 1,000 times, and cost me about 80 cents a piece. (that's less than good Alkilines) In other words, I will never have to replace them in this unit. -- Rodney Long, Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks , Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com |
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I bought my husband one for Christmas... We took it out on the pond.... I
think it was kind of neat.... showed how deep the pond was and how far off the bottom the fish are....Just wonder if you can turn the beeping off.... (It beeps, when it sees fish) (hubby just said it can be turned off) LOL... He seems to like the baby fish finder... I know I had fun saying..."theres another one!!" four, three!! hehehe Joy "Rodney" wrote in message ... Has anyone used these little things before ? I might have thrown away 59 dollars yesterday, but I bought one for use with my Hobie out back fishing kayak, this thing has a transducer that has a float on it, and 30 feet of cable that can be thrown out from the boat, pier, or bank, to look for fish and give the depth. It uses four AA batteries, which is great for the little outback (no huge heavy 12 volt battery needed) I will be using NiMh rechargibles in it. ANyone with any experience with it that can share will be appreciated -- Rodney Long, Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks , Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com |
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In rec.outdoors.fishing Rodney wrote:
: Has anyone used these little things before ? : I might have thrown away 59 dollars yesterday, but I bought one for use : with my Hobie out back fishing kayak, this thing has a transducer that : has a float on it, and 30 feet of cable that can be thrown out from the : boat, pier, or bank, to look for fish and give the depth. : It uses four AA batteries, which is great for the little outback (no : huge heavy 12 volt battery needed) I will be using NiMh rechargibles in it. : ANyone with any experience with it that can share will be appreciated I'd be interested to hear what you think of it, I have a fishingbuddy II and one of those flashlight sized portables from Cabelas for icefishing but all that gives is a depth reading on a LCD screen and a beep if a fish swims under it... The fishingbuddy is portable, but I bought the other one because it just wasn't as portable as I wanted sometimes... -- John Nelson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Page http://www.chicagopaddling.org http://www.chicagofishing.org (A Non-Commercial Web Site: No Sponsors, No Paid Ads and Nothing to Sell) |
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Find any pocket fish yet?
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Find any pocket fish yet? See my reply in the other newsgroups where this was posted. Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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Bob La Londe wrote:
Find any pocket fish yet? Just trouser trout... barbz |
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