chartplotter with water temp reading

Mark T · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 9:49 am

Any suggestion on a chartplotter/gps/fishfinder that has a water temp reading as well. Hat flew off the while on the boat, and ended up diving into Lake Michigan to get it. The family jewels finally dropped back down about 24 hours later. Found out water was around 55 the hardway...

Cap'n Morgan · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 10:08 am

The Lowrance Elite 4 is a great little FF/GPS/CP for your size boat. Reasonable on cost and does what you need.

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Elite-4 is much more than a compact product, with all the proven Lowrance® features you could want, plus the brightest LED backlit displays--providing clear viewing in any boating condition. The 300W RMS sounder reaches to depths of 800 ft/243 m with its dual-frequency 83/200 kHz Skimmer® transom-mount transducer including internal water-temp sensor and up to 120° of wider sonar coverage- at 83 kHz operation. Comes preloaded with a detailed basemap, and is compatible with Fishing Hotspots® Pro, Navionics® Gold and Premium charting upgrades through the built-in, waterproof microSD card slot.

ric · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 10:14 am

Mark T wrote:

Any suggestion on a chartplotter/gps/fishfinder that has a water temp reading as well. Hat flew off the while on the boat, and ended up diving into Lake Michigan to get it. The family jewels finally dropped back down about 24 hours later. Found out water was around 55 the hardway...

I purchased a garmin 441s off a fellow member. That does all that. 4" screen is small but it's just to keep me from getting lost. Pretty much they all do water temp it's very important for fishing. It's on the transducer. I used a Lowrance HDS7 gen2 on my buddies boat Saturday heavily cause I didn't know the waterways. That is a sweet bit of kit. I wish I could have one!

Mark T · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 1:18 pm

Cap'n Morgan wrote:

The Lowrance Elite 4 is a great little FF/GPS/CP for your size boat. Reasonable on cost and does what you need.

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Elite-4 is much more than a compact product, with all the proven Lowrance® features you could want, plus the brightest LED backlit displays--providing clear viewing in any boating condition. The 300W RMS sounder reaches to depths of 800 ft/243 m with its dual-frequency 83/200 kHz Skimmer® transom-mount transducer including internal water-temp sensor and up to 120° of wider sonar coverage- at 83 kHz operation. Comes preloaded with a detailed basemap, and is compatible with Fishing Hotspots® Pro, Navionics® Gold and Premium charting upgrades through the built-in, waterproof microSD card slot.

Thanks, may end up splurging a bit and going to the Elite-5 then. I may do some fishing afterall after watching what the boats were bringing in this past weekend at St. Joe, MI.

Paul I. · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 1:27 pm

Mark T wrote:

Any suggestion on a chartplotter/gps/fishfinder that has a water temp reading as well. Hat flew off the while on the boat, and ended up diving into Lake Michigan to get it. The family jewels finally dropped back down about 24 hours later. Found out water was around 55 the hardway...

I have a: http://www.lowrance.com/Products/Marine ... ite-5-DSI/

Sell it to you for short money. One year old, needed one that would output NMEA0183 & it would not talk to my Garmin 740.

With transducer. $200.00 plus shipping.

Personally, I like Garmin better!

ric · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 2:21 pm

Having used both garmin and lowrance...

Garmin is easier to use on the water. Using the HDS7 you need someone to steer the boat while you play with the GPS. Also, hacked maps for the Garmin are everywhere. Lowrance takes 3rd party maps to get similar features (like Navionics Platinum+) to equal Bluechart G2 Vision. It's very hard to get the Lowrance maps because they are very unit specific. Garmin maps are pretty much system wide generic.

I system updated my 441s to the latest firmware and hacked the latest G2 Vision map for my area and the latest base map. Very simple to do.

www.iFourWinns.com

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