GPS COORDINATES FOR SPIRIT LAKE

[vexaholic]

Well fellas as I stated in another post that I'm thinkin about gwettin a gps unit....can anyone steer me in the direction of what would b a good unit for a 1st timer.I know there's several diff units availble at all kinds of prices....I don't mind spending some $ but I sure don't need anything to complicated for me LOL.Thanks

After two other complicated GPS's I bought the Lowarance H2O B&W and have finally got a GPS I can operate. Sure I had a few snags but the guys at Sheel's were very helpful. Even called for help when out on the lake a few times. Practice....Practice.. ..Practice.  I got the 07 Navionics map chip. I'm finding it is not accurate on most central Iowa lakes I fish. I can be on boat ramp and it will show my position in 15 FOW. Anybody else experience this?

[esox_magnum]

Some of that will be in the sattelites. Is your unit WAAS capable?? This will get you much closer. My Expeditiong is normaly + or - 8 feet on a good day, a bad day maybe + or - 20 feet. Its all dependant on  what the sattelites will provide you.

[jmvsmv]

I originally punched those coordinates in on my cheap explorist handheld, and it too showed two of them off the lake,  but when i pinned them on google earth they were all still on the lake,  have not actually hit the lake with them yet, when i do i will report back.  By the way the one that started out with 48 degrees i assumed was supposed to be 43

[fowlfoolr1979]

Same spot 2 of the coordinates showed up at for me once they were plugged into my H20C as well.  The other 2 spots were on the water but 2 of them were not.  Good thing the perch are so thick up there right now you don't even need coordinates to find them.  Just returned from there this morning and had a great trip.


Layne

[firedutch]

Just wondering what position format and map datum you used to load those?

[fowlfoolr1979]

I just loaded the coordinates into my Lowrance by putting the numbers into the enter waypoint function and they showed up on my map of Spirit as 2 waypoints on the lake and the other two are on land.


Layne

[BojiHawk]

I will double check them...I have seen some basemaps that come with GPS to be wayyy off.  As in - we are going down the river and supposedly (acoording to the GPS) we are on a highway...

[Tomhusker]

I just loaded the coordinates into my Lowrance by putting the numbers into the enter waypoint function and they showed up on my map of Spirit as 2 waypoints on the lake and the other two are on land.


Layne

We ran into the same issue over the week end... BUT!!!! The ones that landed us on ice were H-O-T! Wouldn't be surprised to see a perch on the GPS if you could zoom in close enough. GREAT spot BojiHawk! Thanks for the numbers!

[BojiHawk]

I'm glad to hear you smoked them.  I hope I put you on bigger fish.  When I say "hot spots" in Anglers..I mean places where I manged to consistently get a better year class of fish.  We have "little spots" and
"big spots"..as in size of fish.  Admittedly, there are many hot spots in Anglers, but I'm glad you guys capitalized on this info.  The fish move, fronts, etc...but at least it's a good place to start.  I went to little spots and found they are still little spots...found a few better big spots and eventually found some eyes in a very odd place...at least given what is near the location we caught them...they are not behaving in classic walleye movements...the nerve of those fish!  But here is how I dialed in my rig for the eyes:

Start truck
Hit lake
Drill a string of holes from shallow to deep water
Use vex to mark
Use camera to see
Repeat steps 3 through 5

There are walleyes on spirit.  First off...My fish were caught when I was far far away from anyone else.  Eliminate shanty town and swiss cheese ice...then use your head, drill, electronics (in that order).

[fowlfoolr1979]

Right on Bojihawk....  There is an absolute ton of walleyes in Spirit!   


Layne

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Bojihawk,

Were you on emerson on west on last Saturday?

[BojiHawk]

Yup...for a little bit we fished the hump out near the main basin.  Couple small perch...not many marks.  My brother did find a novelty item:  He said he couldn't believe that someone would leave a garbage sack stuffed into the ice.  When he tried to pull it out, he realized it was someones toilet.  Not good....I was going to find the permy that matched the hole pattern and "return their items" for them.  If I had more time, I would have gotten Gary involved....but it would be tough to prosecute since no one could know when it was put there.  but as cold as it was...that had to be stuff in the hole within minutes of removing the shack or while it was still on the ice.  Total bull...very disrespectful of everything and everyone.

[esox_magnum]

He had to swing through Emerson to see the Hill Billy Delux   

[BojiHawk]

Dude...you know if I see the HBD....I'm going to want it.  Then I'm writing checks...we are haggling over the price...I'm calling furniture stores for replacement parts and upgrades...spinner rims and hydraulics...hittin da switches.   LOL...my brother was not that curious...until I mentioned the water bed frame.  Then he wanted to head over. 

Please tell me that thing has 8" rims...that is key...

[esox_magnum]

Brand spanking new 8" wheels in custom basic white. I'll have to take a pic of the beauty but worried it may cause a new craze in ice fishing trailers. This baby is a fine tuned customized ice shack hauling piece of equipment. Truly 1 of a kind, kinda like it's owner.

 Just had a neat idea personal plates HBDLX 

[BojiHawk]

Brand spanking new 8" wheels in custom basic white. I'll have to take a pic of the beauty but worried it may cause a new craze in ice fishing trailers. This baby is a fine tuned customized ice shack hauling piece of equipment. Truly 1 of a kind, kinda like it's owner.

 Just had a neat idea personal plates HBDLX 

custom basic white!!!  LOL...and the plates are def. necessary.

[J_Edwards]

Any reason these coordinates wouldn't work this weekend? 

I'm finally getting a chance to fish Iowa and I'm planning on fishing Spirit Lake this Friday.