04-16-2009, 12:52 PM
Chrome, If money is not an issue i would deff go for the X510c. It is an awesome sonar. I have it on our 20' pontoon and it is well worth the money. The different color schemes you can get on the screen really help fishing in the day vs. night. It has a night vision screen that is just awesome. it is a black background with green detail. you can pick out everything. and during the day i use the blue background and the fish pop out as red arches. The detail this unit produces is awesome. you can tell exactly what is on the bottom and weather it is a hard or soft bottom.
That being said if you are going to use it on a little plastic boat it may not be worth all the hassle. maybe you should go with the portable unit. I do have an old bottom line fishing buddy that i use on my inflatable pontoon kick boat that works fine for me. I don't use it to look for fish though. It is a low end sonar that will say anything is a fish lol. i use it for a depth finder and to look for some structure, when i find that i get some fish. However the fishing buddy line has been taken over by humming bird i think lately and i heard nothing but good things about them.
So hopefully you can make a decision with what i told you. I know you will like the X510c if you get it, but is it worth the hassle putting it on such a small boat? I think a completely portable system would be the way to go for you. If you were ever to get a bigger john boat or something like that, i would go with the 510c all the way!
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That being said if you are going to use it on a little plastic boat it may not be worth all the hassle. maybe you should go with the portable unit. I do have an old bottom line fishing buddy that i use on my inflatable pontoon kick boat that works fine for me. I don't use it to look for fish though. It is a low end sonar that will say anything is a fish lol. i use it for a depth finder and to look for some structure, when i find that i get some fish. However the fishing buddy line has been taken over by humming bird i think lately and i heard nothing but good things about them.
So hopefully you can make a decision with what i told you. I know you will like the X510c if you get it, but is it worth the hassle putting it on such a small boat? I think a completely portable system would be the way to go for you. If you were ever to get a bigger john boat or something like that, i would go with the 510c all the way!
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