slow fishing new map

[king fisher]

I went to Tepic lake with my kayak Sunday, Monday.  Fishing was slow, only landed a few baby bass.  I was able to make a map of the lake with my new Garmin, and found a few trees that I didn't know were there.  Here are a few screen shots of my two days paddling the lake. Color changes every 4 feet of depth.  Water is very high and muddy, it will be a couple months before I will be able to fish much more than the shoreline, but I will be ready when it clears.  I was able to map 75% of the lake, and I am tired.

[DaubsNU1]

Very cool!  I'm contemplating a new fish finder...the Garmin Echomaps look good...especially when you can map lakes. 

 

[king fisher]

Just now, DaubsNU1 said:

Very cool!  I'm contemplating a new fish finder...the Garmin Echomaps look good...especially when you can map lakes. 

 

I just bought the 64cv plus.  I'm still learning how to operate it, but so far very impressed.  It came with the world wide map I needed for fishing the ocean here.  I was happy when I had no trouble mapping my new favorite lake when it didn't even show a lake on the map.  I need to purchase a High Wide transducer.  The unit came with a medium chirp frequency transducer which will work great for offshore, but high wide chirp would be much better for shallow lakes.

[Conrod]

Now THAT IS KOOL!!! Are you able to export to a computer or IPad screen and save it?  How many acres is the lake?  I would love to see how you have it set up on your kayak. 

Thanks for sharing

[king fisher]

1 hour ago, Conrod said:

Now THAT IS KOOL!!! Are you able to export to a computer or IPad screen and save it?  How many acres is the lake?  I would love to see how you have it set up on your kayak. 

Thanks for sharing

Map is stored on an SD card, I haven't been able to open it on my computer, but I can share it on Garmin's website, as well as down load other peoples maps and put them on a card.  The lake is around 2 miles long, and 3/4 miles wide.  Not very big, but I have landed some very large bass there this summer.  Three over 10, a dozen or so over 7.  Lots of baby bass, but zero medium size fish.  Strange lake, one or two bites a day, but I hope to up the success rate with my new electronics.  Pictures of the kayak were taken when I had finished two days of fishing with almost no sleep.  Boat looks trashed.  I started the trip with a more organized kayak.