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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Equipment => Ice Fishing With Electronics => Topic started by: BRsnow on Jan 15, 2023, 09:20 PM
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If someone has this set, what transducer came with it? Does it just come with the normal open water one? Thank you
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Yes, unless you buy the ice bundle. The higher end Garmin ice transducers run $160-180 new, almost as much as I paid for the unit and carrying case. Garmin must have gotten wise and are selling a cheaper transducer, Garicexd dual beam, for about $80. I picked one up and because of no ice I tried it off a handicapped fishing pier. It seemed to work okay, better than trying to Jimmy the open water one to hang right.
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Yes, unless you buy the ice bundle. The higher end Garmin ice transducers run $160-180 new, almost as much as I paid for the unit and carrying case. Garmin must have gotten wise and are selling a cheaper transducer, Garicexd dual beam, for about $80. I picked one up and because of no ice I tried it off a handicapped fishing pier. It seemed to work okay, better than trying to Jimmy the open water one to hang right.
Thanks, the ice bundle just days dual beam, doesn’t list the iceducers that come with the larger units. Trying to get clarity if the dual beam is for ice. Appreciate it.
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Standard bundle is dual beam I believe. BUT is the open water transducer. It works great through the ice, just make sure it's floating mostly straight. I love mine, won't fish without it.
I have never used the cone shaped ice transducer to compare them though.
The dual beam feature is very handy on the ice in certain scenarios. Definitely something to play with
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Based on the manual and descrption/spec my guess is
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/735513
CHIRP 77 and CHIRP 200 kHz
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That’s the one I just picked up Hardwater, they finally made an affordable one. I love the open water transducer, but it was a pain readjusting it every time a fish bumped it in the hole on the way up
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I was told that the standard ducer is prone to freezing
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Used the open water transducer for 5-6 years and it never froze on me, and I was out on multiple single digit days
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I used the open water ducer for 4 years before spending $70 on the ice ducer. I have definitely noticed less commotion especially if using the flasher mode. Can't say that it's much more of an advantage. I had my open water ducer rigged up on PVC and a float. Never had the ducer freeze but much easier to hole hope with dedicated iceducer and no other hardware.
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Mumbleseed, I haven’t been able to try that new ice transducer through the ice, only off a dock. Did you try it on graph mode, and if you did, how did it work. Thanks
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I did use graph mode a bit but couldn’t give any more feedback other than the stability and surety of the ducers cone direction definitely made what it was reading more stable directly below. Fish depth and structure seemed much more clearly distinct. Could it have been my previous janky PVC setup? I couldn’t say but possible.
I can’t believe what these units cost now?!? I bought mine off-season for $120 with ice bundle even after ice ducer cost I’m still not at current MSRP.
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Thanks for the info. I paid about $170 for the unit and ice case. I hesitated to spend $160-170 on an ice transducer. I just bought that one for $75 and it hope it works as well as the open one does. I pretty much use the traditional only.