Quote Originally Posted by MagikSmallie View Post
For what you are wanting I would say the Lowrance Elite-5 would be a good fit for you. You get sonar, down imaging, and GPS mapping on a 5" color screen for about $360, and I think that does come with the transducer. I am biased to the Lowrance units though. I just haven't found a better value for what you get. I like the 7" screen model because it is a widescreen (landscape instead of portrait) and just for the cost compared to the $1000 units I feel like I get all the same features without the cost. I especially love the down imaging!

http://www.starmarinedepot.com/lowra...m9sRoChOvw_wcB
This one is certainly a unit to consider. I have the precursor unit to this one ... it's the Elite 5DSI (no 2d sonar) and was discontinued by Lowrance, probably because of the demand for 2d sonar to be included. I've used 2d sonar since back in the 1970's .. until I purchased the E5DSI a few years ago. To be perfectly honest, I don't miss the "fingerpainting" images of 2d ... not when I can get "near picture quality" images with the Down Scan capabilities of my unit. I mean, why try to figure out what a blob of different colors actually is, when you can get images like these :

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...pse791a00c.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...ps14cb4a0d.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...psef4a8c36.jpg

... pappy