NEED HELP WITH TEMPORARY TRANSDUCER MOUNT

[Muddy]

Hey: I have a Garmin 160 , I bought from Cart 7, he was nice enough to include a mount for our Min Kota. This boat is in it's last season and we have taken it off the lake to fish a few ponds, some with stumps and stuff we have never seen.

I want to use the Garmnin but do not want to put it onto the back of the transom, any suggestions for a temp way to mount this transducer without going through all required on an aluminum Hull boat?

This boat retires Nov 1, so I don't want to get too complicated.

By the way : we are talking an 11 ft.tinny , 35lb thrust MinKota, no gas motor on this one

[Bassin_0502]

I might have missed the point Muddy because you mentioned you had a "mount for our Min Kota." That's where my sensor is mounted, right on the motor pod using a 6 inch or so hose clamp. Ty wrap the wires up the shaft and over the transom, works great, and the sensor is pretty well protected by the skeg.

[Bassin_0502]

One other 'temp' fix I used was that I attached the screen unit to 2 inch wide Velcro tape, that way I can move the unit easily say from bow to stern on my boat. (Which isn't very far on my 10' Predator!)

[Muddy]

I am sorry I should have stated myself more clearly. One of the ponds has standing timber on a side no one fishes, never seen a boaty on it. I am worried about the toher side and not seeing a rock or stump fast enough and scrapping the transducer. From the looks of things, it is all less than 5 ft of water on the shallow side.

[Dwight Hottle]

Muddy,

Mount the tranducer to a wood board & then C-clamp it to the gunnel.

[Muddy]

Thanks, that is simple enough to do with my limited mechanical skills. That is what I was looking for.

[cart7t]

Clamp the transducer to your shoe and dangle one leg into the water.  

[Muddy]

I thought that's how you work the foot controlled trolling motor

[eastid]

I have a aluminum transducer mount that clamps onto the transom of my aluminum boat. It will swivel out of the water and you can adjust the depth as well. I think it is made by Tite Lok. You can probably find them in one of the Fishing and boating supply catalogs.