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I haven't marked a fish with it yet, but I do now know the depth and what the lake bed looks like in my favorite shore fishing locations.After several uses including an all day boat outing I'm still on the first set of batteries.I like this unit and would recommend it to other fisherman like myself who fish from shore and sometimes a rented boat. After I figured out how to keep the unit from going to simulation mode it worked well. That was okay, I wasn't expecting it to hold on at higher speeds, especially with the poor surface it was attached to. First I'd like to make it clear that the RF45 RSS is included. I got the transducer on but after a short time with the 50hp motor at full power the transducer fell off. We trolled in water from about 30' deep to 110' deep and in every case the fish finder did well, even auto adjusting the focus on the display as we went from 30'->60'->90'.
I learned a lot about this lake using the finder that I would have never known no matter how many times I've fished it without one.The wireless sonar sensor was a little tricky for me because it seemed that it was not being detected and the display would go to a simulation without displaying that fact on the screen, making me think the simulation was what I was seeing in the water I was on. Some of the product information I read seemed to indicate that it was not included, but that was wrong.I bought this because several times a year I go to a local lake and rent a boat to fish for trout and Kokanee salmon, the rest of the time I spend fishing I fish from the shore. The surface was rounded and had algae all over it. Once we got in the area where we wanted to fish and started going trolling speeds the transducer held on very well, it might have fallen off once every few hours. During a recent trip when I rented a boat I used the wired transducer. I've had the opportunity to use both the wired transducer attached via suction cup and the wireless remote sonar sensor.
The boat I was on was a large pontoon boat and the only place to attach the transducer was to the back of one of the pontoons. I do expect that if the surface had been flat and not covered in algae it would have held on even better.
Makes it hard to speed to where the fish are. Guess I will be sending it back. Was surprised by the fact that speed is restricted to trolling only with this product. This should have been noted in the sales literature.
It is very compact so that helps with taking everything a person needs for fishing, I would advise anyone ice fishing to buy this product as I have used it in adverse conditions and it never failed me. The Humminbird PiranhaMax worked thru it all. The Humminbird PiranhaMax 230 Portable Fish Finder works and operates perfectly. The state I fish in gets very cold and snows most of the time. The alarm is loud enough for my bad hearing.
It is very easy to operate and very portable. This product works excellent. I can't think of anything I would change about this fishfinder.
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