20 Best Portable Fish Finder For Bank Fishing (2023 Updated)

First, installation was a bit of a pain but it ended up great. I power it with a 20V 2ah DeWalt battery and it works just fine even if they do not recommand it. Lasts about 8 hours. I was not gonna carry a super heavy lead-acid battery in a kayak that is already loaded with camping gear.

Being that I do a lot of kayak camping-fishing trips on large water bodies having a GPS/tracker was a must for me. Just got back from a trip and that feature has been great for not getting lost in difficult situations.

The user frendliness reminded me of an old Garmin GPS, not great. Far from Google map. Menus are a little difficult to get used to but. Contour mapping is nice. Sonar is great and powerfull. Could follow my jig all the way down 150′ of water easy.

So far Clearview has been useless. You can not see any fishes on that mode. Wich is the point of a ”fish finder”. Split screen is awesome. Another con is that when you need to bring it inside your house to add waypoints or else you will need an extra power cord at $50, Ouch! So all in all it is very good but I could have done without the extra cost of CV.

Happy fishing.

I installed this on my 13 foot boat for Gulf coast creeks and shallow water fishing. The chart for this device is like a blank sheet of paper, it does not have land, water or navigation markers. The only information the chart will display is where you have been, the depth contours that your device recorded or from the Garmin Active Captain application which shares depth contours from other users.

I use my cellphone apps such as Google Maps and Navionics for the big picture if I am in unfamiliar areas. Depth and voltage alarms are very handy. The fish-finder display options are as detailed as most inshore fishing could require.

The screen size is the smallest I would use on any boat, easy to see and interpret at a glance while moving. Very satisfied.

I have a small 12’ rowboat and this is my first ever fish finder. Mounted this unit on an ammo can and the transponder on the trolling motor. Would be nice if it had the option to add a battery to make this a package.

I’ve had the unit on the water for a total of about five hours. Improved instructions and the ability to have a tutorial mode to learn the unit before I hit the water would be helpful. The unit is pretty user intuitive once you spend the time to get familiar with where things are located.

It took me about 20 minutes to get the QuickDraw contours feature to work. Deepest water I was in was about 20feet. I could easily follow my jig, as I raised and lowered it, on the screen. The one thing I did notice is that the lake I was on has two small islands, larger of the two would be approximately 20’ x 40’, while using the quick draw feature it did not show a land mass or show a blank area on the map.

The islands are nonexistent and on the display are really under two feet of water even though I could beach my boat and have a picnic without getting soggy sandwiches. The screen was easily viewed with a straight on look giving it the best brightest clear view.

From the side the screen seemed dull. The cord on the transducer is about 20’ long while the power cord is only 3’. This isn’t a big deal for me since I’ve got the battery in and unit mounted on an ammo box.

Just thought it was worth mentioning. Mounting the transponder on the back of my little rowboat would not work due to the riveted seam sticking out. If it were shimmed out with treated plywood I could have probably made it work but then the transponder would be permanently mounted on the boat with the wire exposed to all Mother Nature fury.

My boat is parked outside. Overall this unit is exactly what I expected to get. I still need to play around with it and continue to understand all the features and options it can do to improve my fishing trips but I’m pretty satisfied and would definitely buy it again.

What would make this a five star review would be: the addition of a small tube of marine chalk for transom mounting of the transponder. Longer power cord Battery option package Case option like the striker cv4 package Better instructions Tutorial mode.

Took it out on a local lake with my inflatable boat. It tells you depth, temperature and showed fish that we were able to catch (some Burbot). Way cheaper and way more portable than any other fish finder with a screen since you are already carrying your phone for the screen.

I plan to use it for ice fishing too, can’t wait.

I bought this for the local ponds (~10 acres). The sonar works great and paints a clear picture of where the fish are hanging out. I found two new spots the first time I used it and caught fish within the first two casts.

I’m still trying to understand how to use the mapping tool correctly.

Super Easy to use, charges fast and has not gone dead yet and I have fished for 6+ hours. Starts up right after hitting the water and has a nice and simple readout that can be understood by novice or advanced sonar users.

The pricepoint is great as well. I am casting from bank with a 6’9 Medium Fast with 20lb Braid. I WOULD RECOMMEND A Heavier action and Medium Heavy Rod, but it works well even on this lighter srtup.

I was looking for a small, portable fish finder that I could use for both ice fishing in the winter and in my kayak in the summer. I was also looking for a reasonable price. I don’t fish enough to justify a top-of-the-line unit.

The Striker 4 portable fit the bill perfectly. It comes complete with everything you need. I am impressed with the build quality and engineering. My vision is poor, so I was a little worried about a 4” screen.

No problem, I can see it fine. I love the feature set- everything I need and more. Some reviewers didn’t like the fact that you can’t upload lake maps and there is no memory card slot. I fish on small local lakes and don’t need that.

The CHIRP sonar is definitely worth getting. It gives you a good picture in all depths. Pros: • Great product for the price, full featured comes with everything you need to start fishing. • Quality build and design • Since Garmin’s core product is GPS units, they include it on everything.

Unusual at this price point. Cons: A couple of little nits to pick, hence the 4 stars instead of 5. • The documentation is very poor. I am a total newbie to fish finders and really needed a more thorough manual.

I suspect they assume a certain amount of background knowledge which I do not possess. I ended up watching a few Youtube videos made by other Striker 4 owners. • The float that holds the transducer for ice fishing could use some kind of adjuster.

They tell you to tie the cable around it, but I would like something more precise, so I rigged up a stop made out of wood. • The battery and charger use blade connectors, which are not very robust. They are likely to break over time.

I adapted a pair of alligator clips so I can easily connect the charger without disconnecting the battery. Overall I love the Striker 4 and would definitely recommend buying one.

I bought the Garmin Striker 4 for a few reasons. 1. Needed a portable Ice Fishing sonar to update an older unit. 2. I wanted a Flasher unit but cost was an issue. 3. Affordable on a very limited budget.

4. A unit I could use on different platforms. I came across this unit by a simple video search of what others were using. It didn’t take long to decide to look into the Garmin. I know they have a good brand, the cost was very reasonable (and on sale at the time of my purchase), and it had awesome features.

Dual Channel sonar of 77 & 200 Mhz and the Flasher Sonar so popular with advanced units I looked at but really out of my price range. I watched a few videos that demonstrated the features and the ease of use, they really showed me I couldn’t beat this unit for the price.

I know there are lots of options but for me I needed some I could set up easily and just fish! I purchased it and took it on a Ice Fishing trip in Feb 2021 and quickly set it up to find marks and within an hour of use I had my first catch! The sonar is easy to switch from, the controls and menus are straight forward, if you use other electronics is rather easy to navigate the menus.

The Flasher feature worked best when I fished alone. When I had a person fishing with me or close by, it was best to use the traditional sonar settings and easier to see which line in the water was mine verses the other.

Response is better than I expected, seeing my jig, seeing fish moving in and out of range, and seeing the movement of fish on the attack was so cool and exciting. I have fished without sonar and the day can drag out especially when they aren’t biting! But I guess when you are engaged with the screen and actively jigging the time doesn’t matter and you enjoy the hunt! LOL.

Just bought this for Ice Fishing. I’m not totally Techi on these things so it will take a bit of time to completely understand all the features and how to use them. I have used this 3 times now for Ice Fishing and no question you can see the Fish swimming to your Bait.

Kind of neat as you are prepared for the Bite. I must say the Clarity is fantastic for such a small screen. Price wise, great buy. my old Hummingbird uses the 6 volt batteries and that is a heavy cost for those batteries, I certainly prefer the chargeable battery with this unit.

Just a word of advise, after each use—recharge the battery—-and they even tell you to do that each time your use it.

The Deeper Pro + does what it says and it does it well! It works for me flawlessly and as advertised! Just remember to follow all of the provided or downloaded instructions and you will be good. I found that the provided manual is tough to read with its very small print.

I think it’s a great product & I got it at Dick’s at a GREAT sales price! No more “fishing blindly!” I definitely recommend it!.

Ive been using the Pro+ CHRIP for almost a year on ice, boat and shore. Its incredible how reliable and accurate the sonar is. Ive compared this to Helix 5 and its just as good in terms of accuracy. The battery lasts at least 4-5 hours, which is pretty good considering how small this unit is.

I just bring a battery pack and charge it up when it dies. I have a really good battery pack and it gets the deeper fully charged in about 30min which is pretty good for another 4 hours of fishing. Only downside is using from a boat as it sits on top of the water and the waves can make it hard to get a good readout.

I recently bought the boat mount and will see how much of a difference that makes, but when on boat with big waves just use the widest beam and it will give a better read. Great unit, well worth the money.

This little sonar is awesome. The app is cool too, my husband used this and came home with a big smile on his face. Easy to set up, the app is simple yet full of really good stuff. Nice quality and works amazing.

I have a fish finder but this is so easy to pack in, super light.

I recently bought a Lowrance HDS Live 9” unit to replace a Lowrance HDS Gen 3 unit on my saltwater bay boat. After one trip to the Gulf of Mexico, I am pleased with the HDS Live unit and how Fish Reveal works.

It was quite easy to target fish on submerged rigs with the 3 in 1 transducer so I will give this unit a rating of 5! However, my rating for Lowrance is at best a 3 based on the lack of support from Lowrance technical staff! I have owned Lowrance / Eagle units since 1981 starting with the paper graphs.

Most of my units ran great but I did have significant problems with a few sonars and the support from Lowrance was less than acceptable!!! I will only discuss my HDS Gen 3 unit in this review. Beginning last year, my HDS Gen 3 unit started having sonar issues for both chirp and down imaging.

The sonar would stop working or just index at a slow rate plus periodic touch screen problems. I was able to resolve issue sometimes with soft / hard resets / touch screen recalibration. I finally called Lowrance technical support.

The technician told be my transducer had failed and it needed to be replaced. Based on my internet research, I absolutely did not believe this was the problem and I was able to evaluate the HDS Gen 3 unit on my other boat confirming that the HDS Gen 3 unit was the problem, not the transducer! I also visited a local dealer in SW Arkansas to confirm my thoughts, too.

This HDS Gen 3 unit was bought in September 2016 as part of a Skeeter Bay Boat purchase. I was extremely disappointed that this unit failed in 5-6 years. My expectation was for this unit to run for many years without any problems.

I have other Lowrance units that run 10 times the hours of the HDS Gen 3 unit without any problems. I am extremely disappointed with Lowrance technical support, and this is something you should consider before buying a Lowrance system.

I considered Humminbird and Garmin but chose Lowrance because of their reputation. Unfortunately I was disappointed. Support from Lowrance is simply nonexistent. On trying to pair my Power Poles ( as Lowrance advertised as a feature) I had issues.

I have worked in IT and Telecom for over 30 years so I should have found this easy. I followed written and YouTube instructions and it didn’t work. After two hours on the phone I was transferred to Level 2 Support.

After 45 minutes on the phone with them I was asked “What brand of Power Pole are you trying to connect?”. I told them that I was trying to connect the only brand that Lowrance will interface with but the model is a Blade.

Over three hours in I gave up. The Live mapping is FAR WORSE than anything on the market. I had and used Insight Genesis service. I have a Humminbird Helix 7 ($600) that is far better than this $3400 HDS Live.

The HDS units sow 8’ contour lines over the top of shore lines that are 4’ out of the water (zoom into photos). If Lowrance had tested this on the water for 10 minutes they would know the Live mapping is not ready for release.

They advertise the ability to interface your cell phone. It works but they don’t tell you that you cannot respond to text messages if you have an iPhone. To their credit: the side imaging is very good.

Fish reveal is very good and makes the most of the available screen size. As the industry leader Lowrance should hold themselves to a higher standard. People work hard for money that these graphs cost and they deserve a working product that has good support.

I purchased this unit for my pontoon boat. I wired it in myself, as I did for all of my instrumentation. Very easy only an idiot would have issues wiring it in properly. There were no problems with the unit when removed from the packaging.

I would suspect any issues like that could be easily exchanged had I encountered an issue. I would give this 5-Stars if there was a dash mount option as I had space for it in my dash. I fabricated brackets myself and it looks and works great.

What I found appealing about this feature is the SD card I can purchase with all the lakes I use this boat in. The color screen is bright and easy to read in bright sunlight, as you would expect. My goal for the unit is to understand bottom contours and shallow depths and an insurance to preventing lower unit or prop damage.

I have set up my gauges to include Depth, Speed, Time, Sunrise/Sunset & Water Temperature. The main screen has my make plotter displayed. It has provided my with accurate and fast data while underway.

I would recommend this to anyone that is looking for a great entry level unit that has many features of much more expensive units.

This product works as advertised but the challenge is the screen size. It’s extremely difficult to see bass using side imaging or down imaging on such a small screen. Everything is compressed so it’s the difference between looking trying to find Waldo in a “Where’s Waldo” book in a large 13×11 book size picture like a 12” screen in book versus a large index card with the same image.

I’ve played with the side imaging rage to reduce it to around 15’ on each side for better results, but it’s still a challenge seeing bass and now with a reduced capability. I should have purchased a larger unit because this is virtually unusable for me in a canoe even with it only 2-3 feet in front of me.

I have a trolling motor propelling forward so it’s not that I’m stationary trying to use side imaging. I have to get extremely close to try and make out the image. Again, the product does what it says but you just can see well.

Forget standing trying to view it. I wish there was a way to connect a larger monitor that merely duplicates what’s on the head unit.

Purchased this unit to replace my 80’s fish finder with expectations that it would out perform the fish finding capabilities of my old unit. This is great for navigation and observing bottom structure but it fails greatly as a fish finder.

With fish ID and fish alarm turned on, fish can swim directly under the transducer and NO alarm or image observed. I reinstalled my old unit and with the use of a floating transducer setup I could clearly and accurately compare bottom structure and depth between the two units.

When fish would swim under my boat my old (Not hummingbird) fish finder would immediately identify the fish and I did clearly see the image of the fish but Nothing of the fish observed on my new hummingbird unit.

Do not get rid of your old unit too fast!.

Works well, love that it’s so easy to use and gives me all the information I need. Instructions are clear and detailed which made set up and learning very easy. Never used a fish finder before, no interest in a pricey electronic gadget that was a challenge to install and complicated to use.

I saw the Fishtrax 1, looked up more information and compared it to other brands of handheld fish finders. This one seemed like it was exactly what I wanted for fishing off my recreational kayak that I rigged for fishing and occasionally from shore/piers.

It gives me basic, easy to read and understand information that will help me pick out fishing spots. Used it from shore and off a pier, it works great. I’m excited about using it from my kayak when the weather warms up.

Bought this as a gift, however, was kind of selfish as it’s for my significant other:) We rented a boat this year and wanted to find a fish finder that we wouldn’t have to mount. One that would be useful offshore if we hit a bank here or there.

We have yet to fish with it off bank but due to the design don’t believe that will be an issue. It is extremely accurate as I also use it to dive into water, so I’m dependent upon it’s accuracy. That’s huge trust! Easy to throw into the boat bag with the case (bought separately).

Also bought separately the suction cup holder which is extremely useful and also fits in the box purchased. Have not had a problem reading or seeing the screen. The transponder is easy to just throw over and does as described by giving the full view.

This product rivals extremely expensive mounted fish finders I’ve used in the past. Would absolutely recommend.

The fish finder is great for my applications since it is lightweight and runs on AAA batteries, yet it has nice sonar features like color display. The screen is hard to read with polarized sun glasses – but all of them are.

The float tube attachment is a great idea but the strap attachment to the transducer is a bit problematic and not easy. I have gone back and forth with customer service about it. I can always just use the float for the transducer.

I plan to take it ice fishing next winter as well.

Bought this primarily for ice fishing after a fishing trip with a friend who had one and it is incredible! The ability to test depths for ice fishing is so easy with a unit that can fit in your pocket.

This unit also has the multiple features for lake mode which lets you map the bottom as well plus the fact that it records your sonar screens for you is another added bonus. Just awaiting the boat mount for it and going to have it out scanning all the lakes here in the Yukon!.

I owned one for 5years up until last year. Lost in a snow storm. Fell out of sled on way back from fishing. I was only one with it a d my friends were jealous. It worked awesome every year until I lost it.

I highly recommend it. Sound holes with out drilling or just a slide of your thumb instead of putting a weight on line.

I needed to know water depths and drop-off areas but did not want to go to the hassle of adding a convential “fish finder/depth finder” with all of the associated battery and equipment. This device was the answer to my dilemma.

Light weight and accurate, it is just what I needed.

I’ve had two, neither lasted more than 2 years. Very fragile connection where power leads are soldered to circuit board. Good while they did work.

it’s ok but cheap made. sealed just with second glue. enters water. then stops working for a while. report will show , disconnected or to shallow. that will mean water inside. but water inside will damage the battery.

anyway its weak. you can not disassemble it. so better would be that the unit would be sealed at least with some kind of silicon glue. and wrapped around with clear silicon tape for extra seal or bumper hit protective features.

now I did it better.

Didn’t even use it yet and hate it already! The directions are clearly out of order and images shown are not for this product. The large easy access opening for the battery does not exist. Instead there is a small opening, smaller than the battery making connecting it very difficult.

This is very frustrating already with the horrible design and instructions, I’m sure it’ll work equally as horribly. I’ll be returning this immediately.

As i said, you can check the bottom and the depths but for marking fish it is inadequate, you can compare the demo with both the fish icon on and with it off and you wouldn’t be able distinguish why it is marking the fish (with the fish icon on).

The icon’s great for beginners but as someone with a bit of experience you want see the arcs, not an icon and the resolution is just not good enough to do that. Not sure why this unit has so many good reviews.

It’s just okay in my book. Barely has any features, it could least include the battery voltage. I bought it based on reviews and it looking similar to the lowrance elite 4 that I once had. Maybe it’s good for the money but I would recommend saving up a bit more to get something more useful.

The case is difficult to get the unit into. The base is to tight. A bit more room or slight stretch to the fabric would help. It is very difficult to attach the tiny battery charger clips to the battery when in the case correctly.

The protective covers on the clips slide off easily. I plan to hard wire extra wires to the battery to allow easier access to charge rather than disconnect the unit every time which will eventually cause the battery connections to break rendering the battery useless.

The case needs attention. the humminnitd works well, good screen view as expected.

Product was exactly as described. New and unopened. Product came in a plastic packaging and plastic was slightly damaged, but absolutely nothing that would cause any damage to the product or raise any concerns.

Easy to install on my Kayak, and has worked flawlessly for multiple fishing trips. Product comes with screws to mount on a metal boat, so I had to change those out for bolts and nuts to mount on Kayak.

For the transducer mount, it came with a bolt and lock nut to hold the transducer to the mounting bracket. I changed that out for a 2. 5″ stud with locking washers and wing nuts so I can raise and lower the transducer during transportation.

Highly recommend doing this, especially if mounting on a Kayak. Also, if you do change them out, make sure you use Stainless so they do not rust. This fish finder does not have GPS or dual screen, but if you are like me and all you need is to know where the fish are, this is worth every penny.

Great quality, great imaging. Will give you a sonar image as well as down imaging, but not both at the same time. If you are installing on a Kayak, the only other recommendation I have is to get a Nocqua Pro Power Kit 10Ah battery to power the fish finder.

I got this unit as a gift for an annual canoe trip. It worked for 4 days of a 7 day trip before the control unit failed. To their credit they replaced it even though I was past the warranty period, unfortunately the second unit failed in the same manner on the first trip I went on.

When it worked I found it to be a great unit, and their customer service was excellent. Unfortunately I did not have any luck with this product.

I don’t think this unit is adaptable to GPS so I didn’t fill in that box. Easy to install and very simple to operate. Color sonar only (on my $99 unit) with bottom, trash, and Fish easily identified in easy to read (in the sunlight) vivid color.

Convenient ranges for rod and reel bass fishing. Slim profile fits anywhere. I used a stick (each) of JB Weld (knead to activate. about $7 each) and epoxied the transducers (bought two units) to the bottom of my aluminum boat ensuring I got solid glue between the transducer and the hull.

The metal particles in the JB help to make a solid (sound aka sonar) contact with the hull. With that it would record my garage floor, boat sitting on the trailer, when cured, something no other sonar would do.

Set up initially per supplied instructions and no more tweaking. Push the on button and start fishing.

Love the size. Attached easily with float tube strapping included. Worked out of the box on my first lake trip. Best use of transducer was using the float and hanging over side of tube. Initially could not figure out how to attach transducer to the mount on the strap as it had no instructions/pictures etc.

even on the web site. Suggest adding a video online showing how to do this. All in all very pleased with the Fishtrax. Depth accuracy was really good.

Never expected to find this at Harbor Freight, but for $40, I decided to try it. My main desire was to know the depth of the water I was fishing in and to find edges of channels and fish attractors such as submerged timber.

It does that well. It will let you know when it detects fish and shows small fish or big fish, but that is very general information displayed by preset images built into the screen. It is extremely easy to use, put batteries in it, turn it on and put the transducer and float into the water.

The Chenglish instructions are somewhat easy to understand, but it took a bit of playing with the settings to get a better understanding of how to turn on or off the backlight and the noise maker that sounds when it sees fish.

It has a very small screen, but is surprisingly easy to read even in sunlight. It does what I want it to do at a price I could justify spending. It is a far cry from the more pricy fish finders, but I am pleased with it.

I’ve owned the striker 5 ice fishing bundle for one year now and use it year round (using a separate transducer during the summer). I’m thankful that I did my research and compared all the different units before buying this.

It saved me a lot of money for a boatload of features that cost way more money with other brands. -quickdraw mapping with something like 2M hectars of storage space (this is only in the summer) -a basic GPS for saving tracks and waypoints -you can run the flasher and split the screen with another feature (for that matter you can separate the screen with up to 3 different settings) I often use the flasher and tradition sonar together while icefishing -the battery lasts me multiple trips onto the water, I’m never worried about it losing power and if I do stretch its life a little far I just turn down the brightness and that adds another hour or more.

-the case is rugged -it has CV so thats an added bonus if you use this unit during the summer DOWNSIDES -you cant upgrade the GPS to have maps -you cant download any software so it could support SV This is the unit to buy if you’re on a budget.

Summer and winter, this thing goes with me on every outing.

UPDATE: I tried to update my previous 5 star review but it wouldn’t let me. I’m updating to 3 stars because following installation I discovered that GPS feature does not come with any maps/charts nor can any be uploaded.

Very disappointing. 7SV will generate its own maps and waypoints can be set but there is no land reference on the screen. Why it is designed this way I do not know. I would return it for a different model but by the time I installed it, it was too late to return.

Other than no maps, the 7SV works fine. IE: The GPS pic (lower left on screen) is what it actually looks like in real life. Make sure you read all the details and know what you are getting prior to ordering any of the SV models.

The unit seems good, but it is hard to get working properly. The raymarine forum hasn’t been working since june 2020 so it is hard to get technical assistance. I have the element HV connected in a NMEA2k network to an emtrak B921 AIS.

The element is not displaying any AIS locations. The AIS appears to be transmitting on NMEA according to its diagnostics, by the element does not have any diagnostics like the MFD axiom to actually troubleshoot.

I cannot see any settings to fix this. I have a navionics map sd card which I have selected as the map source. When I first used it, the proper level of detail displayed. Now it seems to have switched to extremely low resolution.

I can’t find any setting which fixes this. The GPS location is accurate and I am 99% sure the navionics card is not yet corrupted. The element should be able to obtain power from the NMEA2k network. However this doesn’t seem to work.

It will only power on if separate power cable that connects with the nmea2k cable into a single connector is connected to the battery. Lastly the unit should have shipped with a HV100 transducer but this was not present.

I have contacted support but this has not yet been resolved.

I would give the Element 7HV a 3. 5 rating so far – after about 1/2 a dozen uses so far. The unit’s speed and responsiveness when switching screens is excellent, as advertised. The function of the hypervision, sidevision, and downvision has been quite good.

However the standard CHIRP function has been quite sensitive to noise – I have had to frequently adjust the sensitivity and noise rejection settings to get a reasonable, usable display and I often lose the depth reading when the setup is not just right.

Also, I recall reading or watching a video somewhere that suggested that several desirable features may be added in the future with software updates – for example, perhaps the ability to use a remote display app like you have in the past with other products.

However, the website shows the most recent software update to be over a year old at this time. It would be nice for the user base to know what updates may be available in the hopefully very near future.

I bought this unit for my kayak and could not be any happier! I was moving up from another brand (Lowrance Hook 2 7) that did not last 2 years. Upon installing and using the Element 7, the first thing that was very clear is it is night and day different.

It should be since it is in a much higher price range. The images are crystal clear, the functionality is quite simple and user friendly. I still have a lot to learn with it but feel like I will be very happy for many years to come! To be fair, there is one negative that I have noticed.

When on a mapping screen, there is a lag between movement of my kayak and when it shows on the screen. I heard Gene Jensen mention the same thing so I know it isn’t just me. I wish it updated the on screen icon a little faster.

Aside from that I am very happy with my purchase. It feels like it is built very solidly, actually has some weight to it. I am very hopeful that it will last many years.