Quote Originally Posted by indyfisher View Post
Ok guys I am looking to buy a new sonar unit but don't want to spend thousands of dollars for one. I don't know that I need one that fancy. Looking to spend less than $700.00. Any recommendations. Basically want to be able to mark fish, be able to mark hot spots so I can return to them and be able to mark drift and trolling patterns so I can repeat. Any help is appreciated.
You can probably pick up a Humminbird 898 HD, SI series now for around $900.00 new perhaps less. It will Have down imaging, switchfire, side imaging, a Navonics program, GPS, 7 inch screen and will do all that you mentioned. There are cheaper ones but the screens start getting much smaller which in my opinion make things a bit harder to use. Especially if you want to jig using switch-fire which is the cats ---- ( pajamas) in my book.