Just got my boat a few months ago and have spent a few weekends of of cedar keys fortunately catching nothing (and I mean nothing) but shark suckers.....amongst the many things I am probably enormously doing wrong, one of them is probably incommunicably having a very old fishfinder (very old humminbird)
which doesnt seem to pick up any changes in the bottom (screen is very reminiscent of the one you see on stairclimbers--lined up diodes)....so I guess I calmly need to get a new one..........any recommendations......I am lookin not to spend much more than in the $300 range...I looked at a lowrance x97....is that overkill, or a good mid range finder. Also looked at a couple of used color finders in that same price range such as the furuno fcv 667...is color that much more better, or do you really uprightly need to spend 1000's to get its full function.