Lake Contour Map Recommendations?

[Bigfish33]

I'm looking for a good brand of contour maps for a couple different Idaho lakes. Does anyone have any recommendations for a brand of either physical or digital maps that you have either used or liked? Thanks for any input!

[mvanhank222]

Navionics app. It's hard to beat has very accurate and well defined maps.

[idtrout]

Navionics app. It's hard to beat has very accurate and well defined maps.

Is this the app you can download and pay $10 per year to have and also comes with a 1 week free trial period? I have looked at Navonics but there are about 3 different ones some HD and some regular so not sure which one to download, so any clarification on what works best would be helpful.

[SirCranksalot]

Navionics is prob as accurate as anything else but don't believe the 1 ft contours. They are, in all probability, just interpolated from the 10 ft contours. 

[Huge IceHole]

I use the Navionics web app on my I-Pad and then mark waypoints on my Garmin GPS.  It is a great starting point when it comes to exploring, but nothing beats time on the ice.  I used their iTunes boating app through the free trail but I found that the combination the cold temps and active use in the background it crushed my battery life so I bailed on it.

[panfishman13]

there aren't many lakes in Idaho that even have contour maps. the navionics web app has a bunch, but you're still gonna be limited to the larger/more popular bodies of water. especially in southern Idaho.

my suggestion would be to buy something like the humminbird autochart, that records depth maps from your open-water fish finder and saves them to a chip that you can put in your GPS. i believe Lowrance has a similar function.

[natebert]

I use the web page http://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en in Firefox.  Seems platform independent (no specific need for iPhone/Android/WinTel, etc.)

[SirCranksalot]

I have used that page to  with Chrome. If I'm fishing near the shoreline I don't need any GPS to determine location and I find paper maps a whole lot easier to read.

[Bigfish33]

Thank you for all the suggestions! Just want to get something that will give me a bit more detail about the water I am fishing - In general just interested in some of the more common/popular bodies of water in the southern part of the state.