uggggggggggg,I have been having some fishfinder issues of my own lately. Early last summer I bought a new bottom line 5100.I really liked the finder,it had all the bell's and whistles that I needed,and I really liked the bigger screen. Well a couple Saturdays ago I get to the lake ,and the finder is telling me it is not getting any signal from the transducer. After a full day of fishing with out a finder ,we get off the water and take a look at the transducer. It has a big crack right down the middle of it,and water it dripping out of it
. Damn dirt road anyway. Well bright and early Monday morning I'm on the phone to bottomline. As it turn out bottomline was bought out by hummingbird
Humming bird is doing away with some of the bottomline models and their accessories . I talked to six different vendors,that handle bottomline transducers. Only to be told we don't have it,but we were supposed to have them last week,two months ago.cry me a river so I start looking for a new finder,after asking lots of questions,and doing my research,I settled for a Lowrance x-135. I only have about 8 hours of use ,but so far I do like it. The only real draw back is getting use to the smaller screen,but I think I will keep it
One of the things I really like about Lowrance is that they have computer programs for their finders,that can be downloaded to your puter. This really helped cut down on the learning curve. Sorry for typing a book,just to ask a simple question,but i had to rant about this somewhere.
