I recently bought a 1980 ranger bass boat and I got a portable hummingbird fishfinder last christmas.  I was wondering if there was a way to turn the portable into a mounted.  Any info would be great.

Thanks,

Jenga

I would guess that A trip to the hard ware store for either some Hotglue, self taping sheet metal screws or something of that matter and a strip 2 inch by 10 aluminum should get ya what ya need.  

Bend the Aluminum strip and either mount it by screws or glue it to your boat and then hot glue, bundge strap, rubber bands or by what ever means that you may be inspired by  connect it too your strip of alunimum

I have been using a the same handheld on my two jons that i use when I bank fish with mom.  Mom's not that fun of being in boats but she loves to fish.

There are 3 way's you can do this.

1) You can go buy the bracket to mount it to your boat, and hard mount it.

2) You can get the mounting bracket and the add on suction cup, and keep it portable.

3) You can make a bracket yourself and mount it.

4) There is a possible fourth option. Not knowing much about the set up you have, I can only guess that you might be able to buy a second transducer, that you could leave permantly mounted to the boat. This was an option with the depthfinder/graph I have.

I currently use option #2. Been doing it since the mid 80's, with an Eagle Z6000 (which I still use).

There are 3 way's you can do this.

1) You can go buy the bracket to mount it to your boat, and hard mount it.

2) You can get the mounting bracket and the add on suction cup, and keep it portable.

3) You can make a bracket yourself and mount it.

4) There is a possible fourth option. Not knowing much about the set up you have, I can only guess that you might be able to buy a second transducer, that you could leave permantly mounted to the boat. This was an option with the depthfinder/graph I have.

I currently use option #2. Been doing it since the mid 80's, with an Eagle Z6000 (which I still use).

I plan on doing option 4 with my lowrance X96 when I fix up my 14' jon.  I fish a lot at a place where you can only rent jon boats (can't bring your own boat) so I need to keep the portable option available to me.