Electronics Guru's....I am asking for advice

[Harry Babb]

Can you guys tell me your recommendations on a Depth Sounder that will be used on a G3 Aluminum boat in the River Delta and Bays.

I like the looks, features and price of the Hummingbird 385i.

Is this a good unit or not......or are there other brands in this price range that out last and out perform the Hummingbird?

hb

[In Memory of Vicroy]

Harry - I've had several Humminbirds with good results, nice stuff for short money. AJ came to me in the early 90s with a Humminbird color sounder that was a very good unit....knonked out once and they fixed it way out of warranty for free. The CRT began to dim and I replaced it with a SiTex CRT years ago and that still works. The Garmin black box add on to their chart plotters is the cat's meow in my book.

UV

[Harry Babb]

Went to Bass Pro and looked at the Hummingbirds. While I was there the sales guy showed me a Lowrance M68 (I think was the model) for a couple hundred bucks.

He told me that it was the best bang for the buck. Being quite doubtful I came home and searched for online reviews.

Several of them was not so good....got onto some Bass Fishing forum and a couple of guys really trashed them. Said that 3 or 4 years ago the lower end Lowrance was pretty good stuff but not anymore.

Read several reviews on Hummingbird......all good.

So today I ordered a 385ci Hummingbird.

We will see! ! !

hb