01-10-2015, 05:52 AM
I'm running a Navionics on my Humminbird 581 and it's pretty darn accurate on Mohave. Navionics supposedly has 1' graduations mapped out on Mead and Mohave, which seems to hold true.
Wolf is right about Navionics (and/or Humminbird) not having a lake elevation offset, which is a pain for Mead, but I just follow the contours as he said.
I've been fishing Mohave lately and the Navionics is pretty friggin accurate. I can set-up a trolling run between submerged humps, clipping points, much further away. It really helps when the wind is up and it's not easy to see the "green water" depth changes. I was trolling south of Cottonwood when the wind was up (3'ers+) and without the map it would have been darn near impossible to efficiently set-up trolling runs to clip the points, I wasn't very familiar with the area. Without the map,,, by the time I could have seen the water color/depth change, the boat and lines would have been WAY out of position.
I probably could have got away with just the NV (or AZ) state version, but opted for the West Premier Hotmaps since I go to UT also. Either way, it's not cheap. I looked at a used Navionics chip on Ebay, but came to the conclusion they were not a good deal, no updates and outdated map info.
I don't think a "phone" version would be very friendly out on the lake as the screen is too small, better than nothing though, and for $3.... If it would run full screen on a tablet, that would be awesome (if I had a tablet...)
NOW, the only thing I don't like is when I'm slow trolling and the Humminbird can't figure out which direction the boat is heading N-S-E-W. If I'm trolling off the main at 2-3mph it isn't bad, but while trolling off the bow-mount TM going 1 - 1.5mph, the screens aspect will flip back and forth, facing north, facing south N-S-N-S-N-S-N-S annoying... Did I just pass that point or am I going to run into it? (If anyone knows a setting or tip to resolve this it would be much appreciated.)
Best of luck,
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Wolf is right about Navionics (and/or Humminbird) not having a lake elevation offset, which is a pain for Mead, but I just follow the contours as he said.
I've been fishing Mohave lately and the Navionics is pretty friggin accurate. I can set-up a trolling run between submerged humps, clipping points, much further away. It really helps when the wind is up and it's not easy to see the "green water" depth changes. I was trolling south of Cottonwood when the wind was up (3'ers+) and without the map it would have been darn near impossible to efficiently set-up trolling runs to clip the points, I wasn't very familiar with the area. Without the map,,, by the time I could have seen the water color/depth change, the boat and lines would have been WAY out of position.
I probably could have got away with just the NV (or AZ) state version, but opted for the West Premier Hotmaps since I go to UT also. Either way, it's not cheap. I looked at a used Navionics chip on Ebay, but came to the conclusion they were not a good deal, no updates and outdated map info.
I don't think a "phone" version would be very friendly out on the lake as the screen is too small, better than nothing though, and for $3.... If it would run full screen on a tablet, that would be awesome (if I had a tablet...)
NOW, the only thing I don't like is when I'm slow trolling and the Humminbird can't figure out which direction the boat is heading N-S-E-W. If I'm trolling off the main at 2-3mph it isn't bad, but while trolling off the bow-mount TM going 1 - 1.5mph, the screens aspect will flip back and forth, facing north, facing south N-S-N-S-N-S-N-S annoying... Did I just pass that point or am I going to run into it? (If anyone knows a setting or tip to resolve this it would be much appreciated.)
Best of luck,
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