I bought the wristband style smartcast last summer, used it a bit shore fishing up at L. Erie and som saltwater fishing. Unit works well, marking depth and fish accurately, comparing results with my boat mounted sidefinder. The only problem i found was reeling in the float and checking the wrist display at the same time-I noticed in Cabela's catalogue that a pole mounted design is available at $10 more than the wrist unit-i would recommend the purchase of that design-looking forward to trying it in the streams, once trout opens in PA.