My GPS drowned-I'm gonna puke

[bassnleo]

My title should about say it all.

Sunday morning, pouring down rain off and on, there I am, out in the boat and practicing for a tournament in 2 weeks. Wasn't doing much fishing, more cruising around and marking cover on structure. If I saw something on the sonar I would fish it, if I got bit I would mark a waypoint.

Keep in mind I have been doing this style of fishing at this particular lake for 2 years, I had 50 waypoints, ALL offshore.

Pick up my handheld GPS to mark a waypoint. The screen has water on it. I gently shake it off, the friggin thing slipped out of my hand and BLOOP........in it went. I was in 14 feet of water, and in the middle of nowhere :'( :'( :'(

After punching myself in the head, I drove straight to the ramp, trailered the boat, drove straight to Gander Mountain which is an hour away, bought a new GPS.

Now I have to start all over again, that's the part that hurts. All those places I was catching fish, and not small ones either, nice fish, most over 3 lbs with 4's and 5's mixed in.

I'm gonna be sick again.........

[roadwarrior]

Man, that sucks!

[Hooked_On_Bass]

Man, that sucks!

x2!

[hawghunter1744]

Man that does suck. I'm just about to buy a new GPS/sonar combo and I'm gonna make sure that I take extra good care of mine.

[TheBeast]

Makes me feel better about accidentally kicking my new $80 LED blacklight in the lake on my second trip out with it last week.

[Sam]

Sorry to hear about your loss.

That is like having your computer crash.

Is there anyway you can backup the data on your GPS?  

I think I will ask Lowrance and find out.

Thanks for the story.

[JShrock07]

Oh man, that totally sucks for you!!!

I have a crapper depth finder that shows depth, hardly any fish and never will it pick up any type of structure. Need to get me something.

[Daiwa]

Our GPS is mounted to the dash.

[Wildbillb]

I would have dove head first right in after it.

[bassnleo]

My former GPS which is now lying in it's final resting place had no memory card or way to back-up info.

My new GPS has the capability to back stuff up on computer. Most definately will be done.

I didn't dive right in because drowning my self over a $75 GPS would be plain dumb plus I was alone in the boat and the wind was blowing. If I went in pretty good chance my boat would have blown away.

This was a HANDHELD GPS, not a fixed mount. I have a fixed mount in my ProCraft, in my small lake boat I use the handheld.