I really wish I had known more about the portable fishfinder when I would do my fishing off the shore of the lake or off the Santa Cruz pier. These inventive products use the same theory as the boat attached transducers, yet you can take these anywhere you want to fish. Where as the boat attached fishfinders can only operate in one place, and that is in the boat they are attached to. The unique advantages to the portables are they can be hand held, attached to your fishing pole, or taken onto a boat with the use a portable transducer that is thrown into the water, or place down onto the side of the boat with the fishfinder attached by a clamp which attaches to the boat. While investigating the different brands I came upon the Norcross Models. There are only 2 that I was able to find, and to tell you the truth, they offer alot for just a small unit. The Norcross DF2200PX Portable Sonar System is featherweight, and is incredibly easy and very effective in reading fish. It is one of the most versatile hand held depth sounder ever produced. It can give you instant depth reading, from 2.5 to 199 ft. and at the press of a button the display will give real temperatures of the water and air. Use it in the winter to shoot through ice before cutting your hole. Use it in the summer as a range finder and temperature meter while diving. Use it as a backup depth sounder on your pleasure boat or scan for channels in your dingy. Scan under weeds, lily pads, or even docks for lurking fish before making a cast. The presences of fish are clearly readable, and the hand held unit weighs 1.2 lbs. It is powered by 4 AA batteries.
The Norcross FF3355P - Portable FishFinder with WeekIT is easy to use, simply turn the power on, toss the unique floating sonar sensor from the shoreline, bridge, or boat. Instant depth, fish, weed, and bottom contour readings are now in the palm of your hand. It reads depth, fish, and bottom structure from 1.5 to 99.9 Feet (.5 to 30.4 Meters) It has dozens of features, including the WeedIDTM which identifies weed height under the water. Other operations are the mountable and side scanable sonar sensors, and headphone type sensor plug. Light weight of 1.7 lbs makes this so easy to use. It is powered by 4 AA batteries.
With the use of these fishfinding products, you're guaranteed to produce many a bigger fish stories and walk away with the confidence that these portables bring in tracking and catching fish. One of these may become my new toy.
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