Best fish finder for $600 or less, 7"

[Boomstick]

So I bought myself a Garmin EchoMap UHD 93sv a few months back - great unit. Now I'm going to be shopping for fish finders for the kids kayaks which will be their Christmas present this year. I want to keep it around $500, maybe $600 tops. I also want to keep it to 7" because of how they will mount on the side tracks.

 

I was thinking about the Garmin Stiker Plus 73sv which also has side imaging and we could also share waypoints. I might be able to find an EchoMap lus 73sv for about the same price too, but that's an older model so I imagine support might not be as good. For the most part the lack of maps isn't the worst thing if they're fishing with me, and we do fish a lot of small lakes where you can simply remember what the bottom looks like.

But first, is there anything else I should consider?

 

 

[Smalls]

3 hours ago, Boomstick said:

But first, is there anything else I should consider?

 

 

Maybe adopting a few of us?

[12poundbass]

Around Black Friday time you should be able to pick and Echomap Plus unit up in your price range. 

[NHBull]

I got my 2 93’s for under 900.00 around the holidays.

i have seen similar sales around the same time of year got the past couple

[Boomstick]

2 hours ago, NHBull said:

I got my 2 93’s for under 900.00 around the holidays.

i have seen similar sales around the same time of year got the past couple

For the UHD? Or even the Plus when it was the current model, that's great! I think I paid $1000 with no tax or shipping for mine.

8 hours ago, Smalls said:

Maybe adopting a few of us?

LOL! I can only afford this because my house is fairly small - and thus doesn't break the bank.

[b19000]

Try the RayMarine Element 7HV. 

If you are patient they have been being offered in your price range fully equipped (e.g. Navionics, transducer and sonar).  I think the lowest WestMarine let them go for was $499 last fathers day. Of course Ultimate Passage always seems to follow suit as well as BOE Marine.

Can't beat RayMarine's 3 year warranty.

 

On a kayak I would go with a Garmin STRIKER Plus 4.