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The navionics app and maps are not even close to showing what is under the water at Keyhole. Waste of money.
You bought it. I've seen you use it. I use the heck out of mine. Waste of money I beg to differ. For $10.49 its worth it, why not. It gives you a general idea. Heck all the secret spots you would have not known unless you started with the map. From there the lake is yours to explore. LOL
Sorry to disappoint but I have never used a navionics map while fishing and none of the "secret spots" I fish are even shown on the navionics maps/apps. Yep, sadly I was stupid enough to buy the navionics western map, $150 waste of money. You have never seen me use it because I've never used it, never once. I compared it to my custom maps and discovered the navionics map was off as much as 30' in water depth in many areas and is barren compared to custom social maps. Its a joke compared to actual data. I can assure you the maps you've seen me use were only the custom maps, not navionics. I load them on my own micro sd cards, never used a navionics chip/map.Next time we are out I will show you the difference.
You spent $150 on it...and never used it...once? Lol how would you know if it was accurate or not then?Looking at these two maps I'll let everybody here decide which one is a joke. Sorry Navionics doesn't hand out GPS coordinates for your "hot spots"...
Houligan, your basis for social maps is user input with real time updates. That's the basis of Navionics lol. You think they went out and logged all the data?? With a compatible sonor you log and track then send to Navionics and they provide updates off that data....if that's your thing which you seem to be raving about.
Okay timeout.... I'm all for more info. Where can I find out more about custom lake maps? I've never even heard of g before. I'm obviously out of the loop on where all the arguments came from and don't think I want to be involved hahaha. Just want to figure out what this custom map stuff is all about
I challenge anyone to compare the data available and not see the difference.
The user uploaded data is definitely the way of the future. However, Navionics and Lakemaster actually send out crews with sonar that set up transects and "map" the lake contours for their maps. The problem is that lakes and reservoirs in WY see such little angling pressure compared to most of the US that it is not worth it for them to map (I would say this is actually huge positive, cause I hate crowds).The Navionics card in my fishfinder in my boat, is pretty worthless for the lakes I have tried in western WY. But it is fantastic for Lake Powell, where you are always in fear of running into hidden structure that is always changing due to fluctuations in water levels......
Even if people are not interested in helping everyone as a whole with the mapping they are still missing the fact they can log their own data accurately and use it for themselves.
My navionics app has put me on fish quite a few times over the years on numerous bodies of water. Never hear a bad word from me on it, well worth the $5 a year!
Hi POk3s, Interesting you mention this. A while back you asked about a topo map for Ocean Lake. appleye replied speaking of these social maps. Did you look into it then? If more people would work on this with us lakes like Ocean would have an accurate map for the entire lake.
I just downloaded it to my phone, and there wasn't a single lake in Wyoming that had any mapping that I could find. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I just stick with the navionics I already have?
That's what I do with the navionics, I mapped out a bay at seminoe with navionics and the vexilar t-box, this summer hopefully I will be able to get more, fingers crossed lol
A lot of the Navionics DeSmet data was uploaded by me starting in 2013. I worked on it for several seasons and finally gave up because their interpretation was so bad. Every few years I'll update my chip and someone else must be submitting data since the map has changed in some spots. In 2015 I switched to SonarCharts and have created personal maps for most of DeSmet, most of Tongue, and all of Healey. I'm much happier with the quality of maps that I can create using the Lakemaster/Humminbird product. I use both the Navionics and Lakemaster products and find the Lakemaster product to be much more useful especially when used in conjunction with my Humminbird/Minnkota combo.