fish finder/depth sounder

I am looking for a cheep yet workable fish finder. I found one called NorCross HawkEye F33P Fish Finder for fifty buck and has good reviews, but I don't know if it works in saltwater . Any suggestions?

I'm no expert, mind you, but so many folks here use the Eagle Cuda 350 I figured I'd go with their advice. It's around $170, but it's a FF plus GPS so you can mark your spots.

Also, I'm pretty sure any FF works in the salt. There is a loss of depth reception involved, which I guess is because of the density or interference of the salt in the water. I'm not sure, but I think you lose about 2/3rds the depth. By the way, the 350 goes 600 feet into fresh water, so it should cover you both in fresh and most salt situations (unless you'll do a lot of fishing in 240 FOW in the Monterey area.)

That's my two cents. Hope this helps!

I'm no expert, mind you, but so many folks here use the Eagle Cuda 350 I figured I'd go with their advice. It's around $170, but it's a FF plus GPS so you can mark your spots.

I've got the same unit on my buddy boat and it seems to do well.  That said, recently a couple people have had issues with the prongs corroding.  It should be known though that that can happen to any FF so I don't know that it's specific to the 350.

I'm not familiar with that brand 'NorCross"? I think you might be better served by going with one of the entry level finders from one of the major manufacturers like Humminbird or Lowrance/Eagle. I've had my Eagle 245DS for several years now with no problems. I got it for $100 and you can get the next model down, that doesn't have the 'DS', for $80. Humminbird makes models at those price points too. Whatever one you get make sure you squirt a little dielectric grease, also called Noalox and available at Home Depot, into the socket where the cable plugs in. jim