Good morning all,
I just purchased a new
Garmin MFD with built-in sonar capability. I'd like to add a
transducer so I get a sonar picture and (hopefully) be able to judge from the echo/return if there's a hard rock/coral/hardpan bottom with no mud or sand for the
anchor to grab. (In one recent example, it took me four tries at Mile Zero / Hospital Point to find a spot where the
anchor wasn't just bouncing along on a hard bottom.)
As someone who doesn't
fish, Garmin's offerings are confusing to me. They have "Traditional", "Chirp", "ClearVu", "SideVu" options. I'd like to keep this
purchase under $400 or so.
My requirements:
- be able to judge the bottom density
- don't care about finding
fish
- might be nice to see snags with some kind of "side scan" technology if not too $$$
What have you used that worked?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff