Garmin 010-01870-00 Striker Plus 4 with Dual-Beam transducer

I bought this strictly for ice fishing. I also got the portable kit from Garmin. The unit performed great the first time on the ice. I was in 30ft of water and set the transducer to 200kHz for a narrower cone angle. I have a flasher that I normally use for ice fishing and thought that is what I would use on this one also, but I used the graph with A-Scope more with the Garmin. I liked how I saw a history of what was happening, how the fish reacted to me jigging. I used the standard boat transducer. I have not bought the ice transducer from Garmin and I am not sure I will. It is very expensive and the one that came with this performed very good. It picked up on bottom hugging fish very well. The screen is very bright and sharp. I had no issues with the size of the screen, it is big enough. Edit 9-9-18: With the portable kit from Garmin that I got I decided to use it for open water fishing. The Striker Plus 4 worked really nice. I used it on my Father-in-laws boat which already has a Humminbird fish finder on it. But I got no interference from the Humminbird and Garmin showed everything that the Humminbird did. I did use the mapping feature on the Garmin too and it seemed to do a great job with that. The lake I was on is over 1200 acres so I did not get to map a lot of the lake but while we were trolling for Muskies and Northerns the Garmin was mapping. The GPS worked great as you would expect from Garmin. Overall I am very pleased with the Garmin Striker Plus 4. I was worried about the 4 inch screen being too small for me. Would the 5 inch be better? Yes but since I didn't have enough money to buy the 5 inch model I had to get the 4 inch which turned out to be big enough especially when I will be using it for ice fishing mostly and sitting fairly close to it. It cost less, even with the portable kit, than a new flasher for ice fishing and I can use it for open water too. It has a ton more features than your standard ice fishing flasher and performs just as good.

This is an outstanding fishfinder for the price. It has lots of great features and comes with lots of mounting hardware for multiple configurations for the included transducer. For us, the Quickdraw mapping feature is the outstanding feature on this particular model. It allows you to map your lake, pond, river with contour lines and custom color coding. It does this automatically as you fish or cruise around and over time gets more and more detailed. You don't have to be on the Quickdraw screen to have it mapping in background. It also has a split screen feature on a number of functions, and you can configure that as vertical or horizontal split. We almost always use a split screen with sonar view on the right and quickdraw map on the left, so we can see below us and see ahead as far as depth we are in and headed to. Full zoom functions and panning on map. It is awesome and well worth the price differential from the regular Striker 4 for us. On higher level models, you can upload and download the Quickdraw maps, but not on this model, just FYI. We can't believe we waited so long for this super reasonably priced upgrade to our 15 year old fishfinder.

This is proven to be a good fish finder. I've use it 2 times on my Kayak. It keeps me from wasting time when there is no fish in the area. I love it.

Very accurate good Ice, and open water kayak and canoe unit. Wish screen was as crisp as older units they lowered resolution on the Plus for some unknown reason. Runs for days of fishing off of a 7ah SLA battery 10ah would last you even longer for those longer fishing camp excursions. You will need to get some hardware from store to connect to battery as it doesn’t come with any fittings which is a disappointment and that knocks it down a peg. Even if it was 10$ or 20$ more if I didn’t have to go get more stuff to make it work that would make it a 5 star item.

For the price it seems to be a great product. I don't know much about fish finders. I did some research and this one comes with a lot of features that others in the same price point don't. Installation wasn't too difficult. I didn't want to drill holes in my aluminum boat and that made the installation a little more involved i.e. HDPE block (plastic), Marine adhesive etc. The screen is bigger than most in the same price range as well. Overall, I like it. These don't help you catch fish but you can find areas where they are hiding.

Screen shows up well on the lake, we put it on our pontoon and we do have a canopy, so it works perfect! So glad we bought this. We like knowing how deep the water is and this also shows debris in the water. We’re glad we bought it!!

Any garmin product is always good! This fish finder is great and the available option to use the gps and map to mark fishing spots is awesome! Ive never been disappointed by garmin and once again im very pleased! And the price is hard to beat!

Love the newer version than the one I bought years ago. The size, color display is better

Good budget system but does not have a good user manual on how to set it up it does have instructions with it but as I am an amateur I can't understand them so would benefit with instructions for dummies 😆

Ottimo

Buen producto , entrega rápida . Hasta ahora ha funcionado muy bien y muy efectivo .

カヤックフィッシングのために購入。バッテリーは空調作業用のものを防水ケースに入れて使ってます。 よく反応が見えるので、大変役にたってます。

Gutes Produkt, Habe den Tiefenmesser bei mir seit über ein Jahr im Betrieb. Qualität und Preis sind Top. Kann nichts schlechten über das Produkt sagen. Kauf immer wieder gern.