Suction Cup Transducer Mount

[WPCfishing]

Has anyone used this mount? Is it any good?

It's made or at least offered bt Navico. I'd like to get the transducer off the bottom of the trolling motor and put it at the front of my canoe. 

I've seen the magnetic mounts. They look great but they're a hundred bucks. The suction cup mount is fifteen.

 

 

 

[Goose52]

A suction cup mount came with my first sonar unit. I never used it.  While it might (or might not) stay attached during normal operation in open water, I occasionally have to get through some pretty heavy slop and figured it probably wouldn't stay attached going through the heavy stuff.

 

I opted for the SlideTrax Transducer Deployment Arm.  If you have a place to mount it on your canoe, after you launch you fold it down into the water. Going through slop or when you get ready to land, rotate the arm up and the transducer is out of the water.

 

I spent quite a bit of time just this morning with both the TM and transducer out of the water, paddling through incredibly thick curly-leafed pondweed.

 

Another thought - if you now have, or plan to get, side-imaging sonar, the transducer has to be below the bottom of the hull so a suction cup mount would not work very well for that application.

 

[VolFan]

I had a suction cup mount on my sit-in kayak. I put it towards the back of the boat, behind the "waist" if you would. It works fine, not wonderful, not terrible. Make sure you tighten the nut holding the transducer, and zip tie the cord to something just in case the cup lets go or gets scraped off.