fishfinders on cartoppers

[d.hark]

Just looking for some advice and opinions on how you guys with jon boats, crawdads, pretty much any small boat with no trailor, have your transducers mounted. I heard the suction cup mounts dont hold too well and am a little weary about mounting it to the bottom of my trolling motor. I have a 12 pelican gator and was wondering if any you guys have any neat ideas for portability. I pretty much have to drag the boat in and out of the water so the transducer would  have to be installed and taken off in the water after launch and before landing.

[GooseBoots]

 I saw one of these at BPS. Cabela's also has them. The regular bracket looks like what you're looking for. Personally, I have my transducer mounter on my trolling motor. When I get an outboard motor, I would give this bracket a try be fore drilling holes in my transom.

http://www.cabelas.com/hprod-1/0000844.shtml

Bruce

[-HAWK-]

This is what i use, works great http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_97456_200001001_200000000_200001000_200-1-1

[Guest muddy]

I have the same as Jhawk. They were made by Bottom Line until Hummingbird bought them out. Cabelas has the  $ 179, old Bottomline unit on sale for 79 bucks! I would only use this if like us we are on a Electric Trolling Motor lake only

[fooman]

I have mine on my crawdad mounted on the transom..the brackets are made for the transducor to kick up in case you hit something..

After the boat is in the water I reach down and put the trans back into position in case it flipped up

[d.hark]

How are you guys wiring the power cable to your battery? Bare wire, clips? It says to use a in-line fuse 3amp made out of 18 gauge multi stranded copper wire if wiring direct to a battery like I am doing. Why in the hell dont they just provide this!!! I cant find anything like that.

[fooman]

go to radio shack or an auto parts store

this is what you need,dont worry how many amp fuse is in it..swap it out for your 3 amp and I use crimped on rings to the battery terminal

[wagn]

I just screwed the transducer onto a 2 by 4, and clamped the 2 by 4 to the outside of the boat. I could clamp it on when I got to the lake, and throw it in a box when i left. Worked great for me till i upgraded to a better boat

[Sam Kafelafish]

Suction cups work well enough. I've never had them fall off.

Fish Eagle 245 DS is what I have.

I would rather spend more and get a nice humminbird unit..I can't remember their portable model, but it's slick and around $250