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Mounting a fish locator in truck

rkpolaris

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Has anyone found a good way to mount a boat fish locator in a truck to utilize the gps feature during the winter?

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Not unless you want to mount it to your dash and put holes in it.  I seen one that had one of those bean bag things and the unit just sat in it on the dash.  I suppose you could use a ram mount and fasten it underneath somehow but it probably wouldn't be up high enough so you would always be looking down at it.  Someone must have done it.  Maybe they will chime in.  If you have an old truck and don't care about it,  its pretty easy to just screw to the dash.

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I remember seeing a few pictures of the Devils Lake Perch Patrol guys with them mounted on the dash of their trucks but can't find any pictures now? :(

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Ya the guys at devils run with them and flashers mounted on there dash and they fish right outside there door didn't look to see how they mounted them though

 

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I went with the Navionics Boating app on my Samsung S5 and 7" tablet. Its linked to the Vex SonarPhone. I can take the phone GPS anywhere. Here is a screen shot of one of my fishing areas. Yellow line is a Track I did this summer to re-map the area above show on screen using SonarChart Live. Blue Pin's are markers/Waypoints, day before the track was around the pins catching walleye. Blue Dot with line is the route back to the landing/resort about 2 miles away. On Ice I mark my entry point to the with a pin, drive to one of my Markers. At night when returning off the lake after Midnight, nice to have a line to follow which can be routed around obstructions. Contours are 1 ft. and the 3 markers about 200 ft. apart and right on the money. The green dot I believe is where the DNR had a test trap net sometime prior to my trip.

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I've played around with mounting stuff on the dash, but I've found I like to have stuff mounted down near the cargo pocket on the drivers side door so I can keep my line and flasher somewhat in the same field of vision.  I'll see if I can dig out the mount I made for a FL-8.

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I use a piece of 1x6 pine about 20" long, mounted a ram ball on one end and slide the bulk of it under the flip up arm rest in my Ram.

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Door mount works best. Depends on the type of door you have on how it's mounted.

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1 hour ago, Rick said:

Door mount works best. Depends on the type of door you have on how it's mounted.

 

And how hard you like to slam your door in and out! :D

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If you have a Ram I found a nice set up. Search for "goat mounts ram truck". Utilizes existing screw holes in the dash.

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