![]() ![]() I can easily see phones getting killed while being used with the finder. Firstly, smart devices aren't designed for water, proper finder units are. There are some problems with this screen system though. Deeper also has a subscription service, and you get 3 months free when you buy a unit but I've not registered for that yet so can't relly comment on it. ![]() It provides a nice colour image and you can split the screen to show the graph and bathymetric map-the app has a basic offline map that it then improves as you cover water, this can then be saved to the cloud to be improved for future trips. All the Deeper units are screenless and you need to use a phone or tablet to show the graph, this is a bit of a double edged sword in my opinion. There's no external battery for the Deeper unit and a charge is supposed to last around 6 months-but I'll need to investigate that. This is a huge advantage on a small inflatable that is leg powered 1 it's less to push overall, and 2 (perhaps more importantly) it doesn't affect the balance of the tube in any way. I made my leash out of 2feet of 60lb braid, so it probabl ads a gram weight. It's easy to attach to the tube, having no mount it can just be attached with a leash to one of the D rings and left to float around. It's light, the phone mount, transducer and old phone weigh in at less than 200 grams. The Deeper fixes all of these issues though. Even the best sonar will struggle to pick up ledges and drop offs when it's left in the cupboard, never mind an ageing portable unit. The problems with the old finder meant that I would frequently choose to leave it at home if I knew roughly the depths of the places I was going. The whole benefit of the float tube is that it's light, stealthy and can be launched anywhere, some guys set ups are so beefy that I can't help thinking they might as well have a boat instead. Although heavier PVC tube that a mount could be permanently fixed to would probably make a big difference on that front, but then you'd have a heavier tube and that's not a road I really want to go down. The main issue was that it was still pretty heavy (over 2 kg with the battery) and the mount, for my tube at least, was pretty cumbersome. For years I used one of those old portable units, that was neither very portable or particularly good- but it did enough of a job that I could find underwater structure and know the depths of where I was fishing. In lakes, reservoirs and large river impoundments I think a finder is near essential. Having a finder on a float tube is pretty important in my opinion, unless you simply plan on fishing a water you know well or perhaps something like a canal where the only real features are probably visible without a sonar. I should probably say at the start that I have no connection to Deeper, and paid full price my unit. ![]() It's not perfect, definitely having a couple of drawbacks, but it's probably as good an option as you'll get for a float tube. ![]() After a bit of research I plumped for the Deeper Pro+ 2 and after a couple of trips I'm pretty impressed. Martyn White | Thursday, 23 June 2022 I recently got myself a new fish finder for the float tube. ![]()
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