Posted
by GANGGREEN on 2002 PM:
Lowrance sonar question
Since Lowrance
discontinued the LMS350A, the X85, X70, etc. I was hoping that some dealers
might be trying to unload them cheap. Does anyone know of any dealers or tackle
shops that are selling these things off cheap.
I'd love to upgrade my cheapy Eagle on my bow to an
X85 if I could get one cheap enough.
Posted
by JOHN G on 2002 PM:
Good point Bill, along
with the upgraded names, they uprgraded the price
also!!! JOHN G
Posted
by patx on 2002 PM:
BOTTOM LINE BABY!
Seriously - take a look at the TX HR and the NCC 5500 before you make a Lowrance purchase - just my 2.0 cents!
Pat Xiques
Posted
by GANGGREEN on 2002 PM:
Pat, Thanks for the input.
If I end up in a new rig
this year I'll do my homework and check out all the brands of electronics. I
figured that since Lowrance discontinued all the old
models that I might pick up an X85 or LMS350 for around 300 clams. That's alot of sonar for that price. As it turns out I hear that
some of the
I've got an LMS350A on the console of my rig and I couldn't be happier with it.
It reads walleye and perch that are practically laying in the mud, downrigger
cables, a jig below the boat and usually the thermocline.
The only problem that I've got with Lowrance is that
if something goes wrong with your unit that they charge you a flat rate service
charge. For instance, once my backlight went dead, the rest of the unit worked
flawlessly. I called to have the backlight replaced and they said they'd
replace it as well as clean the unit and fix anything else that was wrong for
$119. I told them that nothing else WAS wrong and that I had no intention of
paying over 100 bucks for a $2 backlight. The guy on the other end of the phone
told me that if I sent the unit he'd replace it with a brand new LMS350A (mine
was 7 or 8 years old) for that price. I did it and I couldn't be happier.
Thanks again for the advice Pat.
Posted
by TONY ON ICE on 2002 PM:
LOWRANCE ELECTRONICS
GANGGREEN
Those Cheapo Eagle units are the same exact units as Lowrance
on the inside.
With the type of fishing you like to do, there's really no need for the X-85 or
equivelant but for around $300.00 you can buy an
Eagle Fishmark 240 with 1200 watts of peak power,
240x240 pixels and all the features that the X-85 had and more, plus you have a
new unit.
This Fishmark 240 is the same as the Lowrance X-91 with 1200 watts instead of the 3000 that the
X-91 has.
Savings of $150.00
I think Reeds Sporting Goods in
I'll check and let you know.
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TONY B. <*)}}}><
Posted
by JOHN G on 2002 PM:
Tony welcome to the
board...you have made some good insights on the sonar thing: the 240 is a steal
because the differnence in Wattage only comes into
play if you are fishing MUCH deeper water, it will discern better in very deep
water with the higher watt output, but I am talking hundreds of feet
deep....for the average basser, sonar will be used
normally no deeper than about 40 or 50 feet if at all that deep, so the 240
will perform exactly like the higher priced spread for what most bassers do.......good point..... JOHN G
Posted
by GANGGREEN on 2002 AM:
Thanks Tony and John.
I had wondered about
those Eagle units. Of course I knew that Eagle and Lowrance
were both made by the same parent company. It sounds like the Fishmark would suit me. My old unit is one of those 128
pixel deals that is just too hard to read and it has
no definition.
I had already checked Reeds and they are sold out of the units. Good call
though, Reeds often has great prices on electronics, especially discontinued
items.
By way of introduction folks, Tony is a friend of mine from the
Welcome Tony.
Posted
by OnceBitten on 2002 AM:
Bill,
I saw the Fishmark 240 for sale in
Fred
Posted
by TONY ON ICE on 2002 AM:
THANKS FOR THE WELCOME
JOHN & BILL
Hello John
!
Great site and a great bunch of guys.
My business is fish-ing related so I'm lucky enough
to rub shoulders with the sales / marketing reps, tech people and fishermen on
a pretty regular basis.
Primarily Ice Fishing though.
I don't consider myself a Bass Fisherman but there's something about consisantly catching 3 to 6 pound Smallmouths
in
Beyond lake Erie, there's no comparison to
If you're ever up this way from Early October until it gets to nasty to use the
boat (hasn't happened around here this winter) around mid December, give me a
shout and I'll put you on some of the best "Big" smallmouth action in
the country.
We have some big perch here too!! :^)
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TONY B. <*)}}}><
Posted
by TONY ON ICE on 2002 AM:
LOWRANCE / EAGLE SONAR
GANGGREEN
The only difference in the Lowrance and Eagle units
is that the Eagle Sonar units are made for the mass merchants I.E. Wal-Mart,
Dicks, K-Mart Etc, Etc. Lowrance units can only be
purchased through distributors to the fishing trade.
The only other difference is sometime the power as we've discussed between the Lowrance X-91 and thr Eagle Fishmark 240.
Like John stated, the 3000 watt X-91 is overkill for what we usually do and
1200 watts is more than we'll ever need on the waters we fish. Even Seneca
lakes 600 ft depths aren't off limits for the 1200 watt units or less.
If you can snag one of those Fishmark 240 units for
$249.00, jump on it.
I'm heading to Seneca in a few minutes here but I have a feeling we'll get
blown off the lke today. Snowing pretty good right now.
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TONY B. <*)}}}><
Posted
by JOHN G on 2002 AM:
by the way, I would like to also
mention that for anyone used to the old 128 pixel displays, when you jump to
that 240 by 240 screen, you will not believe the difference in quality,
amazing! My usual mode to run the machine is in Automatic bottom tracking but
with the fish ID off...the clarity is excellent.....I believe in the accuracy
of their products as I have proven them time and time again on the water.....
JOHN G