Best portable fish finder?

[jaystraw]

Anyone have an opinion on whats the best portable fish finder with or without waypoint capability? I've been looking at the Hummingbird 343c and 383c. The 383 is a little steep, but I do not mind dropping the $ if it's going to be worth it.

I'm confused if the 343c has the capability to mark waypoints, or if it's just a fish finder. I'm pretty new to fishing electronics, so I'm clueless.

I'm just getting a portable because I'm only fishing from a canoe right now. I mostly fish for smallmouth in NH and am dying to find where all the big ones have gone.

Thanks!

[Wayne P.]

The 383 is a combo sonar/GPS, and the 343 is sonar only.

[Lipped M]

Not sure if its the best but,real pleased with Cabelas' package on the Eagle 480(black/white),no GPS or waypoints.

[jaystraw]

I decided to go withthe 383c portable.  I'll lett y'all know how we do.

[jaystraw]

OK, as I mentioned above, I got the 383c which comes with GPS.

I'm just fishing from the canoe right now, so I have not been out on anything bigger than 150 acres, but the unit is awesome. I've already caught a ton of fish that I would have never seen without the unit.

On Sunday me and a buddy went out to the local smallmouth spot that I've been fishing for three years. I knew there was a high spot coing out of deep water in the left corner of the pond. Using the unit I was able to floow the rock line all the way out to the middle of the pond. I would just find some bottom structure with some fish on it, stop the boat and toss out a senko. I caught more fish this way than I could believe. It just seemed like some of these fish had not seen a lure in a while.

I'm going out again today to a bigger and deeer pond where I've had trouble locating the smallies since they left the shallower water. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

So far though, I'm VERY impressed. It's already paid for itself in my book.