fish finder and wreck locations

[Falcone]

I have a lowrance X5 , it is a black and white fishfinder, but the resolution is very good and its very clear and easy to use.
I installed and wired everything up myself without any problems and i can comfortably recommend this as very good fish finder for the money, i opted for this above the garmin 160c, allthough the garmin is colour, the lowrance has a much bigger display.

 

[ToonBay]

I use the navionics app on my iphone on my kayak, in a waterproof case of course, seems very accurate and get me over the wreck locations already programmed, i then just use my fishfinder to locate if i am directly over the wreck or not. For the price you cant go wrong

 

[canman]

Before i got the Lowrance plotter/sonar I have now that came with the boat, I used a Humminbird matrix 10 sounder and i purchased a gps system from America for the total setup price of £190, which is now about 8 year old, and have it fitted to my present boat as back up and can't fault it. It's not colour, but has a very good picture and can go straight to wrecks no probs.
A few people probably don't know, that if you go into the menu, you set it for sea water, as its default is set for fresh water, and that makes a big difference.
I also have a hand held Garmin Ventura gps. £80 on usa ebay. I marked a small circle on Tynemouth beach, marked it on the gps, walked to the other end of beach, pressed "goto", it brought me back to within 3ft of the mark.
Any way, nuff said other than you don't have to spend a fortune to wreck fish.

 

[5150]

GPS - I've got a little Garmin eTrex H Handheld GPS Navigator that I use for Geocaching, it's pretty good and fairly accurate to within a few feet, fully waterproof and runs on 2 AA batteries, I'm using NimH's in it which seem to last for ages - think I've only re-charged mine twice since I bought it in September. You can store a fair whack of co-ordinates, bit of a chore keying them in initially, but once they're loaded they stay in the memory even when you swap the batteries over. Amazon are selling them for £61.odd - Garmin eTrex H Handheld GPS Navigator: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics there's some higher spec ones if you've more pennies to spend, but as I say this one certainly does the job pretty well. Think you can get an adapter cable to hook upto the pc for loading co-ordinates, but not looked into that myself.