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Southerly 02-12-2012 05:11 AM

kayak fishfinder
 
mounted my new fishfinder in my kayak. it's humminbird 798ci si. it has 2d sonar, chartplotter and side image/down image on 5" screen. 3 presets for favorite screen configurations, carousel menu for the rest. $750 for the FF, 170 for the gold chart.

i mounted the xducer inside the hull. i dammed off a little area in the bow with plexiglas (held in place by electrical duct seal), filled with water and the x-ducer sits in the puddle.

i did a little testing and it seems to be working ok. i have range set on 68' but it can go out to 150 ea side.

Spot77 02-12-2012 09:29 AM

Cool! I had never thought about the transducer situation.

Your set up makes good sense....seems that a transducer located on the outside of a kayak's hull would get trashed pretty quickly.

Where are you going to fish with it?

Southerly 02-12-2012 10:45 AM

everywhere! that's one of the advantages of kayak - portability. nanticoke areas asap, honga and del bay soon, friend wants me to join him in VA,... my real problem is available time for goofing around in small boats.

interangler 02-25-2014 01:07 AM

Entire set up makes good fishing sense at all....:)
Seems that a transducer located on the outside of a kayak hull would get trashed pretty quickly. :)


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