Deeper or IBobber

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will3140
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Deeper or IBobber

Post by will3140 » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:54 pm

Has anyone had experience with the Deeper or IBobber portable sonar fishfinders. I am thinking of buying one so I would like to hear about the positive and negative aspects of both. Thanks in advance

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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by DocMigs » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:27 am

Deeper seems better to me.

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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by JV90 » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:53 pm

I personally have not had experience with either of them, but after everything that I saw online between reviews and youtube videos, I told my wife I would like Deeper for Christmas this year. I don't remember all the reasons, but it seemed Deeper had more options with it, like turning the fish icon off and adjusting the sensitivity. It seems more like a normal depth finder you would get for a boat like a Lawrence or a Hummingbird. I like the fact that with Deeper you can see how hard or soft the bottom is based on the feedback you see from the sonar, instead of just a solid line that changes with depth like other bluetooth fish finders.

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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by will3140 » Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:55 pm

Thanks to both DocMigs and JV90. I am still weighing the features of both devices and will eventually decide. Since both of you recommend the Deeper I will probably go with it. Thanks again

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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by JoshH » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:52 pm

I have the ibobber. It's fine, but I find it loses blue tooth connectivity frequently once it's farther that 50 feet out even though it's advertised to be good up to 100 feet.

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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by Amx » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:00 pm

video of a test by Elijah.Loves.Fishin, also known as FishingthePNW on Youtube. He'll be testing more later;


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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by Amx » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:04 pm

Elijah's thread;

http://www.northwestfishingreports.com/ ... 13&t=22687" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Deeper or IBobber

Post by Bodofish » Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:31 am

JoshH wrote:I have the ibobber. It's fine, but I find it loses blue tooth connectivity frequently once it's farther that 50 feet out even though it's advertised to be good up to 100 feet.
If I remember right, BT spec is connectivity to 40' or what ever the metric equivalent is. So 100' is going to be pretty optimistic.
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