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Originally Posted by Ppb
My 4 year old son really wants a fish finder for Christmas to use while we ice fish and in the boat in the summer. I’ve been looking for portable units and the two main one I can find are the hook2 4 and garmin striker 4 that fit my price range.
Can anyone give me some opinions on which would be a better unit?
I’m leaning towards the hook2 as it comes with ice transducer but the striker has the flasher mode. Any advice would be appreciated as well as suggestions for other portable units.
Thanks
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The Hook2 unit also has a flasher mode. The ice fishing transducer is key if you plan to use the unit in flasher mode. The standard transducer cone angles are too wide to provide useful info in anything but really shallow water when using flasher mode. The ice fishing transducer has a much narrower cone angle, and provides far greater detail on both the presence of fish, and the ability to see your bait.
Make sure you go with the full GPS unit, the small amount of additional money is well worth it to have mapping/chart capability, both summer and winter.
I think the Hook2 unit is a great choice for him. The whole idea behind the Hook2 is to make the sonar unit easy to use and to show fish. It's as simple as turning it on and making minor changes to sensitivity, and the wide cone angle of the Hook2 units shows a big picture of the bottom, and shows more fish. If you're fishing with kids, or my kids anyway, being able to see a fish on the screen is the biggest motivator there is to keep them fishing and focused, when that screen is blank, they lose interest pretty quick lol.