Lakemaster map card

[tgat77]

Does anyone know or have heard what new lakes are on 2016 updated southeast version of lakemaster? They dont have posted on websites...i live in tn and was wanting to know if cherokee douglas norris were added. Thanks 

[Wayne P.]

The list will be posted when the cards are available. Same as previous years.

[tgat77]

On 3/4/2016 at 3:37 PM, Wayne P. said:

The list will be posted when the cards are available. Same as previous years.

Yea i think im going with navionics lakemaster dont have the lakes i want in high deff i think they make lakemaster look silly unless u live in minn or canada and im long ways from there there cards arent that good in tn 

[176VLO]

tgat77,

I live in Tn as well and I have a question for you. I am fairly new to owning a decent bass boat with electronics, so hopefully this wont sound to stupid. I have the Elite 5 HDI on console and Mark 5 up front. Are the Lake Cards worth the money? I plan on fishing some of the same lakes you listed. Holston and Cherokee are my closest lakes. (not counting Boone, which has no water) The GPS works really well and I have bought all the paper maps with Lats. and Longs so I can use those. I am hesitating on spending 170 to buy the card with the maps on it and I dont see myself doing any sonar logging to create my own maps anytime soon. Any advise from anyone would be great.

[Wayne P.]

2 hours ago, 176VLO said:

tgat77,

I live in Tn as well and I have a question for you. I am fairly new to owning a decent bass boat with electronics, so hopefully this wont sound to stupid. I have the Elite 5 HDI on console and Mark 5 up front. Are the Lake Cards worth the money? I plan on fishing some of the same lakes you listed. Holston and Cherokee are my closest lakes. (not counting Boone, which has no water) The GPS works really well and I have bought all the paper maps with Lats. and Longs so I can use those. I am hesitating on spending 170 to buy the card with the maps on it and I dont see myself doing any sonar logging to create my own maps anytime soon. Any advise from anyone would be great.

It is really simple to make that decision about Navionics mapping.

Go to their website and click on Web App. That has the current maps as of yesterday.

It has both map layers--Nautical Charts ( Navionics data) and Sonar Charts ( user generated data). The circle at the lower left of the panel changes the map layers--click on it with about a 500' zoom range. Grey is Nautical Charts and Blue is Sonar Charts.

A new purchase of Navionics includes a year of Freshest Data updates. What you see on the Web App today can be loaded on a new card today. You won't know how long a card has been in stock at a dealer, but it makes no difference since they are updateable.

[mnfishing66]

New to the fish finder world. What does the Lake Master benefit me in? Have a 1100's Humminbird which I'm just starting to learn also.

[Wayne P.]

5 minutes ago, mnfishing66 said:

New to the fish finder world. What does the Lake Master benefit me in? Have a 1100's Humminbird which I'm just starting to learn also.

Lakemaster locations that are HD have a lot of adjustments with a Humminbird unit that Navionics does not have with a Humminbird unit. Plus quality details with the locations that are Lakemaster High Definition Survey. The other map types included are not so good in some cases.

 Lake level offset

Shallow water highlighting

Depth range highlighting

Map list on the unit

Follow the contour with a Minnkota electric steer motor with iPilot Link.

You can download the lake lists from the Humminbird Lakemaster website to check what coverage is available for your area and which locations are designated Lakemaster High Definition Survey.

 

[176VLO]

Thanks Wayne P. - Looking at the Web App was a huge help.

[Further North]

On 4/12/2016 at 2:08 PM, mnfishing66 said:

New to the fish finder world. What does the Lake Master benefit me in? Have a 1100's Humminbird which I'm just starting to learn also.

The lakes that have high definition have one foot interval contour maps.  They are almost crazy accurate.

I have the one that cover Lake of the Woods in Ontario...the locals and the lodges are confident that's it's good enough to avoid those Canadian nightmares (hunks of rock that come out of 30 ft of water to 4" of water in 4 feet) and say it's fine to use it to navigate.

...I'm not quite that confident...but I've yet to find anything that proves the statement wrong.