Over The Years, HOW MANY SONARS HAVE YOU BOUGHT?

[plowjock]

Just got to thinking about since I started fishing back in mid 90's about the number of sonars I have purchased.
It gets scary when you think of all the numbers and models.
I don't think I would be far off guessing close to 40 different units.
Started with Lowrance for about 10 years then swung over to Humminbird.
Couldn't guess how many $$$'s that would cost, other than MANY!

[BigEasy]

Probably five in the last 35 years. Only because the used boat I bought in 2000 came with two and I ordered a boat in 2020 with one.

[Rubrail]

In addition to what came installed in the boats, 4 units.
Including the boat units, 50 plus.

[KennyVexus]

Less than 10 since 1992

[pabasshawk]

I hate to think how many. If you include flashers, paper graphs, LCDs and CRTs it would be over 50. Seems like everythime I would upgrade the technology would be outdated the next day. Chasing the latest and greatest never ends. Learned to try and get proficient with what I had and only upgrade when my equipment was obviously falling behind.

[ECobb91]

1 vexilar FL-12
1 Humminbird 798SI
2 Humminbird Helix 7 SI G2

havent seen a reason to upgrade those.

[unknown angler]

4 since 1979, my 2 Garmin 2D Echo units still doing fine.

[n2ratfishin]

My first was a Bird Super 30 that I kept a long time. When the LCG came out I had a couple of those. Those two models span about 20 years? I had a Zercom flasher in the 90’s. In 2004 I got my first color LCG and it had GPS. I was pooping in high cotton

I ended up with a HDS7 and upgraded to a HDS12 for a year or so. I’ve been back to the same HDS7 gen1 since 2016.

I don’t spend much on electronics. All of em are light years better than the marked string and old spark plug I started with.

[tcesni]

Counting 7 that came with boats, no more than 15 over fifty years.

[LateralLine]

Not Many, was still using a 997 and an 1198 just a couple of years ago.

[CJ1]

1 Thats it! All of mine have been on boats, given to me or a swap for installing electronics. I really don't use them much anyway. CJ

[Bass in the grass]

A lot.

[MichAngler]

Over a dozen not including GPS units

My first was a Humminbird Tom Mann Flasher

[The Mountain Man]

6 or 7 since 1992

[fishnfireman]

More than I can remember--
Started with a flasher in the 70's went thru Paper graphs to LCD's all the way to Solix units and FFS with target lock.

[BigFishSteve]

Several

[gaston13]

If the boat had good working units none. So with two new boats over several years four new units including Garmin Livescope.

[BG12]

3

Bird Wide 100 on my old Tidecraft back in the 90's

Sometime around 2012 or 13 I bought a Garmin Striker Plus 5CV and put on my duck boat. Entered over 100 waypoints of brushpiles on my local lake by hand. When we got the Triton in '17 I think, I bought a Striker Plus 9SV so we could have side imaging and it would link to all the waypoints I already had.

[skeeterator]

Can I count my empty box from the Aliexpress sale or just actual units?

[AKRISONER]

Can I count my empty box from the Aliexpress sale or just actual units?

a sign of the times...

im 36, have owned 3 boats, but literally grew up with sonar. So personally I have bought 10...and 12 if you include ice fishing flashers, in the past decade

although hopefully I wont be buying any soon now that im set with 3 10 inch garmins. Although an NBT would be cool, but I dont think it would fit nicely on the front of my 19 foot boat lol.