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Hey Goober..........I would recommend buying a Vex. or Marcum there's all kinds of used Vex's right now on the different message boards at really good prices.........$200 you could find a good Vex.......You can always find a used portable finder cheap........You'd be way under $450........Nothing against the IceMachine I've seen them they look great but a Vex will last for ever I don't know how many year's those LCD"s would hold up under the tough ice fishing conditions...........Just my 2 cents ..........JHM

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If your planning on using it in a boat, I'd stick with a graph and not a flasher.

 

The flasher is great for icefishing, because it is in real time, but I wouldn't want one for openwater fishing from a boat.

 

The X67 will work well for both.

 

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Have a look at the Humminbird portable as well.

 

I've had mine for years and it goes with me everywhere from the cottage to Algonquin including ice fishing (works great...I prefer it over a flasher). You can now buy an ice transducer as well as rechargeable gel cell batteries for it (they used to only accept costly lantern batteries unless you convert the unit to accept gel cells as I did with mine).

 

http://store.humminbird.com/sonar/500-seri...od407100-1.html

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well if you had clicked on the link I gave you would see a price of 299.99 and that's the best price in canada that I have seen

 

and as long as you take the time to learn how to really use it you can see a little 1 inch. tube and 1/32 jig head and fish come up and bite it...you need to set the sensitivity and colorline just right and you can play with ping speed too

 

but I like mine in 10ft of water for perch and 90ft of water for trout..

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