Reelsonar iBobber portable wireless bluetooth fish finder depth finder with depth range of 135 feet 10+ hrs battery life with IOS & Android App Wireless and Watch App

I love this thing It's perfect for my little Bass boat... Simple and easy to use With a quick check on the area I'm in and it lets me know if it's worth fishing there or not..

Amazing items works great connects easily great instructions works with newest iPhone latest model no complaints

It is pretty good, for what you pay for.

I really like the idea of these mobile fish finders. They are a fantastic idea for shore and kayak/canoe fishing. I decided to try the ibobber brand based upon simplicity and price. I tried this thing out right away when I got it and decided to return it for a few reasons. One reason of concern was the way this thing attached to your fishing line. There's a tiny metal bushing with a hole in it about the size of the eye of a good sized fishing hook and that was surrounded by a very minimal amount of plastic which was attached to the device. I was very concerned that the cheap and under designed mounting method would break possible resulting in a loss of the device. It has a cradle that you must use if you want to charge the device. If that gets lost or stops working, you are going to be without your product. Not sure why they don't utilize a more popular changing Port. Another concern of mine was the battery. When I received it, I charged it for a while before I used it. When the battery was at %93, I decided to go try it. It took me about 7 minutes to drive to our local pond and by the time I got there, the battery level was at a reported %34. After reading others reviews, I see other people have had the same issue with rapid battery discharge. Perhaps the device just isn't reporting battery level properly. Probably the final reason I decided to rate this so poorly and return it was the lack of accuracy. When I first put this in the water, it said there were fish everywhere. So much that I immediately thought this was a defective unit. I tried a few other spots and got the same thing. Smaller fish symbol for fish under 15" and larger fish symbol for fish over 15". I'm certain that is also inaccurate. I would say that at minimum, %50 of the fish on my screen over multiple casts were larger than 15". I know for a fact that there are very few fish in this particular pond that are over 15" so that was a concern too. I ended up taking it to another small body of water that branches of from the river to test it out there. There are larger fish in this area but usually not many fish in general. This thing was still picking up fish like crazy just feet from the shore. I don't think the accuracy of the depth is the greatest either which is also reported in other reviews. When I got it 3' from the shore, it claimed the water was 6' deep when it's really only 1'-2' deep. After about 30 minutes of usage, my battery on the ibobber must have been getting pretty low as it started having a few connectivity issues. It does have a few good features though. The simplicity and ease of use was great. It also has a strike warning which I'm not entirely sure how or if it works but it would be awesome if it did. Lastly, it does have an led light that you can turn on and off at night if you wanted to see it. I really wanted to like this and use it but I think this needs some major improvement. Based on the cheap feeling structural design and lack of accuracy, I would not recommend this product to anyone.

I love it

First off we wish there were other reviews before we bought our two units, as my experience is basically the same as others. That is the unit will work in a limited set of conditions to determine water depth, but dont believe the fish finder! As a toy its great when you aren't catching fish, but at $100 there should be more than that! Summary: Pros are its a great concept, looks and feels sturdy, and nice graphics on a larger screen, easy to cast and lots of neat features like the fish finder alert. Cheaper than the competition. Cons are poor battery management, software implementation, and inconsistent syncing (hint bring the USB charger and portable 5V batter in your tackle box if you really want the best performance) This review covers two separate units, the first we bought and returned to amazon, the second to/from walmart. We tried a second one as the first one had such awful problems with connecting we couldn't believe it was systemic, turns out the second worked a bit better in some areas, but IMHO the product still needs some work and better software. For example when using it to 'map' a cast it shows the farthest (deepest) part of the map as zero on the scale, and the nearest to shore as the farthest on the graph. Very non-intuitive, you want to know the distance a hole or bump/object might be and fish to avoid it, cant do it directly from the displayed scale. Unit one was purchased after new years and tried in both a fresh moving stream and shallow water lake in texas (its warm enough to fish down here year round.) the unit attached easily to a small brass type snap swivel but not to the heavier stainless steel types I favor and would be more secure. I used a 6.5 ft medium action rod with 20 lb test (no way I was going to lose this to a weed) but its buoyant nature keeps it from getting hung up. It was very easy to cast and retrieve across a medium sized stream and the first time we tried it it synced with my 4s with no problems It would report when it was out of water "ibobber out of water" and its depth readings seemed accurate enough, though its limited to 3.5 feet it seems as a minimum. we cast it about 5 or six times at a variety of spots to play with the settings, check the consistency of readings, turn on the blinker, check the water temperature (probably within a few degrees of being correct) and then stored it back in its sleeve in the tackle box. The battery still read 100% even after 30 minutes of toying around with it. We know there are fish in this creek, saw some on the surface, and have taken out 3 lb cats, but nothing on the fish sonar screen. Also note to self that 3.5 in iphone screen in direct sun not good way to visualize the readings Next challenge was a 5 acre stocked lake that we went to the next day, we rigged up and put the ibobber in the water to turn it back on, but no joy. It would not sync with either my iphone or nexus seven, which is a much better size to use with this product. Returning back to the house we tried every tip we could find, finally placing it back in its charger over night, and that solved the problem - except that it was supposed to retain its charge when out of the water, not run itself down to zero with no indication on the battery indicator. Thus ended the life of unit one and Amazon took it back. We got unit two a few days later and tried it out extensively in the house first, in both cold water and warm water 'baths' Its amazing how many fish this thing will find when its in a cup of ice! This second unit would reconnect over a days time period so we set out for a large power plant lake to compare it with a low end Hummingbird fish finder on our boat. First thing you notice is that while it worked fine in calm water, dragging it behind a boat, even at trolling speeds just makes the unit unreliable. It could match the depth readings of the boats unit fine one second, then the next be finding fish at 72 ft, or 36 ft, or 8 ft all in an 18 ft cove. We stopped the boat more than once to fish for some of these phantoms before we gave up and stayed with the built-in unit. We did tie up next to some trees in calmer water to do some head to head, generally the depths were the same, but the ibobber saw fish where the hummer didn't, and when they both 'saw' fish they never agreed on the depth. The ibobber would go from fish to its weed symbols alternately and we kind of lost faith in it. We did put some small hooks on the back end of the unit and turned the 'strike' alarm on but even the smallest movement would trigger it so we turned it off and decided it wasn't ready for the boat and the big lakes just yet. We tried another lake that was known to be full of fish, and fished the crappie barn at lake Somerville. Here the finder seemed to work well inside the fish barn and in very quiet water. It showed all sorts of fish that could have been fish or weeds since we were fishing over some sunken trees, but nothing was biting, except small bass at the surface. We took it out to the back cove and put it on 'fish finder' mode since if one is constantly staring at the screen one is not seriously fishing, and we found this to be the best mode for using it. Also all the other fisherman liked playing with it as well, but after only 2.5 hours of fishing the battery indicator went from 100% to 70% to 30% back to 35% to zero and just died. So if you want to use it in fish finder alarm mode you need to seriously down rate the expected time you might get from it, but unlike the hummer on the boat this will not last a full day of fishing, yet. Our last experiment was to take it back to the first shallow lake, freshly charged. It worked fine casting from shore and we could get about 50 ft out every time, farther than we could bait cast into the breeze. While this unit seemed to work better its 'ibobber out of water' alarm never worked like the first unit, and we conclude there may be some deeper issues in the manufacturing side...???? I have been contacted by OEM and told there is a revised version of Ibobber with battery battery life and physical connector. Will test out this third unit and update review accordingly - Feb 20 2015

Ottimo prodotto, funziona molto bene, la batteria dura più di una giornata, molto comodo anche per la pesca notturna grazie alla luce lampeggiante, app molto intuitiva. Andando a pesca spesso e con amici, dopo averlo usato non ne faccio più a meno, una volta provato lo userete sempre

Ich habe mir den iBobber am 21.10.2016 zugelegt. Ich muss zugeben, die Bewertungen haben mich am Anfang etwas abgeschreckt, doch ich wollte mir mein eigenes Bild machen. Ich nutze den iBobber seit einigen Tagen ziemlich intensiv und kann fast nur Positives berichten. Das Gerät ist sehr leicht und lässt sich gut auswerfen. Die Verarbeitung des iBobber ist ebenfalls gut gelungen. Es ist kein dünner Kunststoff, sodass man keine Angst haben braucht, dass er gleich zerbricht. Auch die Öse zur Befestigung ist sehr gut gelungen. Es wurde eine Metallhülse eingefasst, um somit eine längere Lebensdauer zu garantieren. Manch anderer Fishfinder hat dort einfach nur ein simples Loch. Die Akkulaufzeit habe ich ebenfalls genauer geprüft. Ich kam dabei auf etwas über 9 Stunden, was ich als sehr gut empfand. Das Mapping würde ich als "gut" einstufen. Die Strukturen, die mir angezeigt wurden, entsprechen etwa dem des Gewässers, an dem ich meist angeln gehe. Das Sonar finde ich super und anders als in anderen Rezensionen, kann ich nicht bestätigen, dass es ungenau ist. Hier ist es einfach wichtig, dass das Wasser min. 1m tief ist. Wer da nur bei einem Drittel der Tiefe misst und dass auch noch negativ bewertet, hat eventuell den Sinn falsch verstanden ;-) Durch den Alarm, den man einstellen kann, bekommt man sofort alles mit und kann so sehen, ob der Fisch größer als 38cm (grün) oder kleiner (rot) ist. Selbst die Tiefe, in der sich der Fisch befindet, ist zu erkennen. Die Software kann man sich kostenlos im App-Store downloaden, welche einfach und übersichtlich gestaltet wurde. Sicherlich mag der ein oder andere mehr technische Features haben wollen, doch für den Preis ist das gebotene mehr als ausreichend. Leicht negativ aufgefallen ist mir die Verbindung zum Smartphone. Diese wurde hin und wieder unterbrochen, was sich jedoch stets schnell wieder erledigt hatte. Mich hat es nicht wirklich gestört, dennoch sollte hier nachgebessert werden. Allerdings habe ich erst heute gelesen, dass es ein Update speziell für Android 7.0 Nutzer geben wird. Vielleicht sind damit die kleinen Fehler dann weg. In den USA (habe ich in Videos gesehen) wird übrigens gerne mit dem iBobber direkt geangelt - da sich unterhalb noch eine Öse befindet, kann das Vorfach einfach am iBobber dran. Er verfügt dann über den sog. „Bite Alarm“, welcher anhand einer Vibration Alarm schlägt. Mir war es jedoch zu heikel, da ich sorge hatte, den iBobber zu verlieren. Wer es jedoch mal ausprobieren möchte, gerne. Da würde ich mich über eine Info freuen. Ebenfalls lobenswert ist die Nachtnutzung. Da er so schön leuchtet (Siehe Fotos), hat man dann einen sehr guten Orientierungspunkt. Alles in allem bin ich sehr zufrieden und würde den iBobber jederzeit wieder kaufen. Schaut euch auch die Bewertungen der teureren Geräte an. Bei so viel Geld erwarte ich Top Bewertungen und selbst da gibt es genug Schlechte... Preis-Leistung ist hier einfach super. Für mich ist er eine große "Hilfe" - erst recht, wenn ich an eher unbekanntem Gewässer unterwegs bin. Gerade im Winter wird er mir sicherlich gut weiterhelfen - denn hier ist es bekanntlich schwerer, den richtigen Spot zu finden :-) An meinem ersten Testtag habe ich auch ein paar Fangfotos gemacht. Nicht die Größten, doch trotzdem hat es sehr viel Spaß gemacht ;) Für mich also eine klare Kaufempfehlung.

La pêche est un loisir vieux comme le monde. On l’apprécie pour le bien-être et la quiétude qu’elle procure lorsqu’on est tranquillement installé au bord de l’eau en pleine nature. Mais ce n’est pas une raison pour rentrer bredouille car un poisson frais bien préparé est aussi un plaisir. Pour les jours où on est moins chanceux, un appareil comme ce sonar à poisson qui m’a été fourni pour un test et un commentaire objectif peut être d’une aide précieuse. Il suffit d’attacher le flotteur à sa ligne et de disposer d’un Smartphone pour voir ce qui se passe sous l’eau. Le flotteur se met en marche automatiquement lorsqu’il est dans l’eau et s’éteint lorsqu’il est au sec. Il suffit de regarder son écran pour savoir s’il est connecté. L’application iBobber à télécharger et installer depuis le Play store ou App Store est en excellent Français avec un tout aussi excellent tutoriel et un mode DEMO qui facilitent la prise en main. Sur l’écran, on peut choisir de voir la configuration du fond, les poissons mais aussi les paramètres du flotteur (T° de l’eau, Niveau de charge) activer les alarmes ou allumer l’anneau vert clignotant qui vous permet de voir le flotteur lorsque la nuit tombe. Si vous disposez d’une Smart Watch, il est possible d’afficher ces informations sur votre montre. En activant le GPS, il est aussi possible de voir le calendrier lunaire et les informations météo de l’endroit où vous vous trouvez (connexion internet nécessaire). Vous pouvez aussi enregistrer toutes vos informations dans un journal de pêche. Pour ceux qui font une petite sieste, il est possible de programmer une alarme lorsque les poissons approchent ou lorsque ça mord. Je l’ai essayé dans un petit étang près de chez moi. Il n’y a pas de poissons mais on voit bien le fond. La portée du Bluetooth en espace dégagé est supérieure à 10 mètres. Pour le recharger, il faut insérer le Bobber dans son support de charge en faisant attention aux ergots et tourner d’un quart de tour. La charge est indiquée par un anneau LED bleu. Le support de charge peut être branché sur n’importe quel chargeur 5V mural ou du type allume-cigare mais en extérieur, une batterie de secours autonome d’une capacité > 10000 mA/h se révélera d’une grande utilité pour recharger le Bobber ou votre Smartphone. L’appareil est bien fini et parfaitement étanche. Il est livré avec une housse de transport en nylon équipée d’un mousqueton. Le mode d’emploi est très complet mais uniquement en Anglais. Cet appareil n’est pas exclusivement réservé aux pêcheurs car il peut aussi être intéressant de connaître son environnement lorsqu’on dispose d’un petit bateau de plaisance. J'ai attribué 5 étoiles parce-que j'estime, sans présager de la fiabilité à long terme, que le produit fourni correspond à ce qu'on peut en attendre en lisant l'annonce. Si ce n'était pas le cas, je n'aurais pas écrit ce commentaire. Je répondrai volontiers à toute question que vous jugerez utile de me poser.

I have had this 4 weeks now and I can say The iBobber is a great little fish finder that you can take anywhere as it fits in your pocket. It is small in size but don't let that fool you as it holds about 8hrs worth of charge and it will probably outlast your mobile if you have not got a power pack! The iBobber turns itself on and off when it is in the water so saving power which is a nice feature. I do lots of different types of fishing 'bit of an allrounder' - carp, tench, pike, zander, trout, cod and pollock and the iBobber is suited to them all - so long as you have at least 5feet of water to let the sonar work properly you will definitely put more fish on the bank! The depth scale is handy as it shows the depth at which the fish are most comfortable; so you can get a bait or lure down to them. For coarse fishing I use the terrain feature which allows you to map your swim - this is useful for coarse fishing for tench and carp as it shows troughs, bars and likely features a fish is likely to feed from unto 30m from your mobile. The app is easy to instal and has several other features - I like the fish alarm but I feel that could be more useful if I actually used the iBobber as a float -which I don't want to do at the moment as I don't want to lose it! The app also shows the water temperature which has influenced where I fish on the lake - especially for trout on big reservoirs as the cooler the water in the summer the more dissolved oxygen- which they like! The fish finder doesn't just show fish it also shows weed - this can be handy when placing bottom baits for carp as you can find areas where they have been feeding and have reduced the weed down to size. On a recent zander fishing trip to a large reservoir I was able to connect a cord to one of the two anchor points on the iBobber and tow it behind the boat - After motoring around for some time I found fish hanging around the south side off a pumping tower - the fish were tightly grouped around a shoal of smaller bait fish and I could clearly see the depth at which they were feeding 22ft in 25ft of water - so I knew to place my bait within a couple of feet either side of that, which resulted in 3 nice zander - had a great day pleasure fishing and managed to find some other hotspots - so job done!

This is a easy to use little fish finder. I don't cast it, but hang it off the side of my kayak. It works pretty good for the size and price. Perfect for this application, but can't move quickly with it tied to side of kayak as it pulls out of water and will lose connection with phone. But for going along slow, works pretty slick.