best fish finder for ice fishing

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I know flashers are "the bomb" for ice fishing. I bought a Humminbird Matrix, it's your basic sonar with a computer-type screen that is used on boats. I can track a rat finkee down to 60ft deep ZERO problems, never had a problem pickin up my jig. Fished 2" tubes at bear lake well over 100 ft and can see my jig and sinker clearly. I even used a rat finkee with a 12 leader dropping down to a #18 fly, and i could see both separate on my finder in 40 ft. It's a bit different setting them up than a flasher but i only paid $110 for mine brand new comparing to $300-$500+ for a flasher it's hard to beat. I was going to buy a flasher this year but after fishing side by side with my 2 buds that have a hummingbird flasher and a marcum flasher i just don't see that big of an advantage. I'll spend the extra 400 bucks on gas[]

The advantages of my finder is that I spend the 30 minutes in the spring and fall switching it from the boat to ice rig. It also displays history which is nice when fishing deeper water so you can see what's happening right this instant up to 30 seconds ago. The battery lasts way longer than on a flasher, i can fish 30+ hours on a 1hr charge. the only real divantage i've found is that if i leave it in the back of my truck in subzero temps on the way out to the lake it takes a few minutes to warm up, if i keep it in my cab and turn it on when i leave the truck there is no problem. Just my 2cents.
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