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Question posted by glipsky on November 3rd, 2010

Fish Finder

I have sent this unit back and they sent me a new one? but still cant get ubit to locate fish, it is good for a GPS and also for the depth is right on, but for fish finding it sucks, (several calls to Garmin ) didnt help , sick of calling them , Gulf west coast FL

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