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Fish Finding Watch

 
Fish Finding Watch
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Fish Finding Watch

4.0(8 customer reviews)
List Price: $89.99
Our Price: $79.94
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Description:

The sonar sensor technology of the Fish Finding Watch stays close to your angling arm as you cast your line and tune in to underwater structure and depth capability

Features:
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Fully-functional watch with date and time capability


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High-visiblity, 1 1/4-in diagonal display with 48V x 32H resolution


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Water surface temperature and digital depth readout


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75-ft remote operating range, 100-ft depth capability


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Pulse backlit display and pulse lit Advanced Remote Sonar Sensor for night fishin


Product Details:
Product Length: 10.7 inches
Product Width: 7.7 inches
Product Height: 2.4 inches
Product Weight: 0.7 pounds
Package Length: 10.5 inches
Package Width: 7.4 inches
Package Height: 1.8 inches
Package Weight: 0.8 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 8 reviews
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review: 4.0 ( 8 customer reviews )
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28 of 28 found the following review helpful:

5Works as good as the Humminbird Wide in my bass boat!Sep 06, 2007
By Mary Ann Fargo "maf4898"
I bought this for use mainly in my kayak since I didn't
want to install a permanent ff. I've used the
smartcast about a dozen times so far and am extremely
happy with it.
My brother has a yak and we go fishing together.
I have the edge over him in a big way with this ff.
It shows bottom contour, depth, water temp, and fish.
This thing puts me onto fish and bottom structure that I
otherwise would not know existed.
It's easy to learn to use, and it works...in fact it
works every bit as good as the Humminbird Wide I have
in my bass boat. :-)
One tip though: Make sure you shut the unit off when
not in use so you don't kill the battery. And when
you store the unit, make sure it's not resting on
the on button. (doesn't take much pressure to turn the unit on).
So, if you want a completely portable, full featured
ff, imo the Rf35 Smartcast is the way to fly. I love mine
and never go kayak fishing without it.

12 of 12 found the following review helpful:

4Good system for a bank fisherman - good bargain.Oct 21, 2008
By Luke Nichols
I fish several times a week but don't have a boat and so my wife got me this product for my birthday. For the price it works great.

Down sides - the watch functions are not very intuitive and it takes a while to get the hang of turning it off and switching between functions. Hang on to the user manual, you'll need it. Also the watch sucks up batteries so turn it off unless you are using it. Its not a practical watch (plus its not exactly fashionable.)

Testing and pluses - I tested the Smartcasts depth measurements against some readings from a boaters $300-400 fish finder and its accurate to the nearest foot.

The temperature gauge seems to be fairly accurate but honestly I haven't tested it against another thermometer. Its at least in the right ball park.

The Smartcast's ability to gauge the contours of the bottom and to locate structure is fairly good though you have to understand how it works.

1) the sensor only senses directly underneath it,and not much else. 2) the output screen scrolls across the watch face whether or not the device it moving. SO a sub-surface depression that looks quite gradual could actually be quite steep if the sensor is moving very slowly. (and visa versa). You have to realize the the sensor isn't taking a continuous picture of the bottom but is instead taking a series of snap shots every couple seconds. If you understand that and try your smartcast out on a dock where you can actually see the bottom you can get the feel for this pretty quick. You must compare what you see on your watch to how fast the device is moving. Plus there is about a 5-10 second lag between the sensor and what you see on your watch.

As for finding structure. the sensor was able to detect quite clearly a submerged 2x4 which was a cross member between the piers of the dock I was fishing on. It showed up as a 1 pixel solid vertical blip on the screen as it slowly drifted over the top. The sensor also detected the edge of a 2 foot weed bed quite clearly.

As a fish finder, I don't think its too practical, unless a school of fish suspended directly underneath the sensor several feet above the bottom. Fish finders in this price range generally aren't that useful at detecting actual fish so I wasn't expecting this.

Having tested out my smart cast I tied it to a $10 telescoping rod and reel set I got as a white elephant gift and so the whole thing fits in fishing bag and I don't have to switch my sensor and my lure on and off.

Anyrate, I was able to locate a depression just next too one of my favorite fishing holes, so I casted to the new hole and I have been pulling striped bass out of there for the last three days. So I'm happy with it.

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

4Fish finderOct 17, 2007
By James Allison
This watch fish finder for about a hundred dollars is very good for the price. It shows you fish when it is directly over them, the depth, water temperature, the bottom, weeds, and other obstacles, but does not show how big the fish are. It is very convenient, just keep it in your tackle box. Make sure you have an extra pole, because the wireless part has to be thrown. Other than that, it is great, compared to the finders that are a few hundred dollars.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

5Great little fish finderMay 13, 2012
By Optimist
Have had this for about a week and took it out a couple of times.
As other reviewers have commented, it works quite well. After messing with it, I can't imagine fishing without one. Knowing where the fish are and are not is invaluable. Of course it can't tell if they're biting !

A few observations to add to the already good reviews of this product:

1) The RF45 "rubber ducky" unit that you cast into the water is smaller than I expected, but that's good. It is light and casts well.
2) The display you wear on your wrist is a somewhat large, and thick, watch. This is fine. The resolution was good enough to see what needs to be seen, and lack of greyscale does not seem to compromise the utility.
3) The user manual is very well written, but as you might expect for something with few buttons, it takes some study to understand what you've bought. The operation of the watch-unit took a while to learn initially, but is straighforward after you use it a couple times. (It has defaults, so you can probably just use it if you don't want to study the manual...)
4) The RF45 rubber-ducky seems faily durable. I actually dropped mine on the concrete and it bounced and survived. But I don't recommend repeating this experiment.
5) The display unit I got had a bit of a manufacturing quality-control issue. All the pixels were quite dark, requiring me to find the part of the manual that explains how to adjust the LCD contrast. After setting it on the lowest setting (1, rather than the default of 5) it seems to work fine - but I wish I could adjust it even lower.
6) While not needed, "programming" the RF45 rubber-ducky (if you want to switch channels, turn on the light, etc) is a bit cumbersome, and can't be done without the manual. Moreover, I have to wonder if some reviews that said the thing stopped working might have been because the RF45 got "reprogrammed" to channel B without the user knowing it? (You wet your finger and tap two or 3 times, etc to program which sounds like a recipe for trouble with random wetting events that could happen at some point as folks handle the unit)
7) The wrist unit claims to run for 40 hours on the battery, so having extra batteries is probably a good idea (it includes an extra one in the package - but I bought 5 more for about 6 dollars)
8) The RF45 rubber-ducky has a non-replaceable battery. It claims to run for 500 hours, but you should probably be careful how you store it when not in use to make sure it doesn't run down the battery (keep it dry, etc). I bought an extra to have as a backup (for about 25 bucks). Shelf-life claims to be 3 years.

So - how does it work? In a word - GREAT. No complaints. It has been great fun measuring the lake-bottom depth and contour and the alarm is pretty cool when fish swim by.

The wireless sender worked well when I cast it from the pier (range was fine for the wireless), but it did lose the signal once when I was trolling it behind my inflatable boat. BUT - this is a difficult situation for the wireless system to handle as the RF45 antenna was partly/mostly submerged due to the boat movement and my wrist was only about a foot off the water. As long as your wrist is not close to the water, it seems to be fine.

Bottom line - get one and try it !

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

5Works WellJul 05, 2011
By F. Wise "JV"
My first unit went bad after a few uses but I contacted the seller and they swapped it out very quickly. What's to say other than it works pretty well. I use it on my jet ski primarily for curiosity uses, "I wonder how deep it is here"? It shows what are supposedly fish at various depths and is a great design. Fishermen may want something bigger but for the casual user it works well.

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