Lowrance HDS-5

[FlyFishinYakr]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

I'm in the market for one, what's a fair price for this unit right now? I did find a few on Ebay but the prices are all over the place. It has to have GPS, I'm not about to do like Matt and use palm trees and buoys and birds and airplanes and clouds and street signs as coordinates.

Does it have to be an HDS-5?
I picked up a n Elite 5 DSI-GPS FOR JUST UNDER $400 on eBay just before Xmas (my apologies to OEX). it's been going up ever since. (I think it's now $425+)
When your looking for the HDS units are they LSS Bundle, are they the gen2 w/touch screen? Also some are equipped with different types of transducers (wider/narrower beam combos or occasionally none) or are either Insight/Navionics versions.
Hope this helped some.
Almost bought one for $1499 with all the bells & whistles but if I'm fishing mainly saltwater, I don't really need side scan. When I knew I wanted a HOBIE I thought about an HDS-7 LSS (for the bigger screen) but I started to ask myself do I really need a FF that cost as much as some Paddle kayaks (I had started to entertain the idea of an HDS 10 just because I could).
Having had experience working on or running boats from here to San Diego and spending time with skippers in the wheelhouse , I have collected plenty of coordinates I need for the major structures and high spots locally . Looking forward to adding to my library of waypoints closer to shore and inside local kelp beds which I can't get to in a private or party boat.
FFY