Fish Finder for Canoe

[TNDiver]

before I spend hours doing research, I thought I would ask everyone's opinion or experience for a good Side Scan sonar for a canoe.  I am thinking it would have portability.  Any help/suggestions, etc would be helpful.

Also, I have never owned a fish finder, so any advice would be welcomed.

[bigb201]

Hummingbird makes one called the fishin'n buddy for canoes that I've been looking at.


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[bass.junky]

I use the fishing buddy in my canoe and it works well, good price point at under $200 as well

[bassmaster3541]

I have an aluminum flat back canoe/row boat that I bought a humminbird with DI for $300 this winter, it has a split screen between the traditional sonar and the DI, it's nice

[bigb201]

I believe the fishing buddy has side imaging


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[TNDiver]

I saw that for the Fishin Buddy.  I also saw the Piranha one, but it looks like the Fishin Buddy is better, but also cheaper.

[bassmaster3541]

Where are you finding the fishin buddy with SI?

[TNDiver]

It is actually side sonar to show what is off to the side of you.  Not SI like what newer technology is on newer fish finders

[bassmaster3541]

Ohhh got yah. I have my humminbird with the DI set up alot like the fishin buddies are designed, I just made up a rig for it so that I can pull it on and off easily, since I beat the crap out of the bottom of my boat and it wouldn't last long if I had it set up normally.

[bass1cpr]

   I have one of the old fishin buddy's they don't show structure but marks fish that's off to the side in distance from you. What impressed me about the one I have was when dropping the anchor it showed the plume of silt around the anchor when it hit bottom and also showed the plume of silt when I pulled the anchor up. I picked mine up at Bass Pro in Springfield at the outlet side for about a hundred dollars. The new one's can cost $250.00 or more but have more features than the originals. At the least it's good for tempreture and depth.

   I built another portable using an old minkota transom mount trolling motor. I gutted the head then took apart the motor then cut the housing so there was only a square about four inches in size. This left me with an arch on the end of the shaft. I cut two slots in the arch for the clamp to slide thru. Fished the transducer wire up to the head made a flat mounting plate from a piece of 1/8 thick aluminum so i had a good surface to mount the bracket for the depth finder on and I was in business. The power wire fed out of the same hole that the power wire for the trolling motor came out of.

[TNDiver]

   I built another portable using an old minkota transom mount trolling motor. I gutted the head then took apart the motor then cut the housing so there was only a square about four inches in size. This left me with an arch on the end of the shaft. I cut two slots in the arch for the clamp to slide thru. Fished the transducer wire up to the head made a flat mounting plate from a piece of 1/8 thick aluminum so i had a good surface to mount the bracket for the depth finder on and I was in business. The power wire fed out of the same hole that the power wire for the trolling motor came out of.

Thats a great idea!  I don't think it would work as well on my canoe, but great idea!  I love repurposing non working equipment!