The dad fishing from a kayak, tinny or hire boat with no electronics at all. Not the offshore boat owner, who needs a bigger screen and more transducer than this.
What it is
A four inch colour fishfinder with built-in GPS and a dual-beam transducer, small enough to mount on a kayak or a tinny. Marks and stores waypoints, and shows depth, structure and fish arches. Sold new by an Australian marine dealer.
Why we picked it
This is the entry point where a sounder stops being a depth gauge and starts being useful, because the GPS means a good drop-off gets saved rather than remembered wrongly. Four inches and a single transducer keeps it light enough for a kayak or a hire boat, and the whole thing runs off a small battery. For a dad who fishes but has never had electronics, it changes what a session looks like more than any rod would.
