remotecaptures
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Can someone suggest a through hull transducer for my needs? I'm looking for something to primarily mark tuna but also bait fish (herring, mackeral, pogies, etc), and bottomfish (cod and pollock). I have a MFD12 and PSU-012. I have a 22' grady white seafarer 228g and usually fish in 100-350ft of water and have a garmin transom mount (GT23M-TM and GT34UHD-TM) 500w transducers but never marks bottom fish and only sometimes tuna. As I understand it a wide cone is beneficial because you have a larger detection area but there's a lot of information and other factors to consider and would appreciate advice. Don't necessarily need the latest and greatest and not opposed to picking up a transducer that was made 5 or even ten years ago if it will work well. Also would like to know if I would need to buy a black box network sounder like the FURUNO DFF1-UHD to use with the transducer.
I know it depends on many things such as the hull shape, transducer placement, how clean water moves around the hull, etc., but can someone give me a general sense under good conditions for how fast I could run and still be able to mark tuna? Cruising at 24mph or only under 10mph?
Thanks,
Pete
I know it depends on many things such as the hull shape, transducer placement, how clean water moves around the hull, etc., but can someone give me a general sense under good conditions for how fast I could run and still be able to mark tuna? Cruising at 24mph or only under 10mph?
Thanks,
Pete
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