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Make your own lake map

A few weeks ago I posted about making your own lake map for Navionics. The Spokane Bass Club had an event on Long Lake (aka Lake Spokane) on August 9th where we had five boats logging sonar for a few hours. The results are in, here are a few screen shots of the lake with standard charts and then before and after our event.

The process is simple and the more time you spend at it, the more detail you will get on your map. Within about a week the map will be updated on the Navionics WebApp. This link will show you how to do it on various units. www.navionics.com/en/plotter-tutorial

Standard Nav Charts

Before sonar event with Navionics SonarCharts

After sonar event with Navionics SonarCharts

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Jay Johnson on August 25, 2014 at 2:32pm

Love technology being our friend ... very nicely done!

Permalink Reply by Justin Whisler on August 25, 2014 at 7:03pm

Very cool. I fished a TBF qualifier over there in April this year and a quality map was hard to find. Might have to look into this before my club tournament next June.

Permalink Reply by Tyler Brinks on August 25, 2014 at 7:55pm

Exactly why we mapped it, no commercial maps for sale. The cool thing about this is you can see the map for free at navionics.com. Just click WebApp. If you get the card you can have it on your boat.

Permalink Reply by Justin Whisler on August 25, 2014 at 8:19pm

Will definitely look into that. Thanks Tyler.

Permalink Reply by Tyler Brinks on August 25, 2014 at 8:26pm

Just click the sonar log icon to see the improve the maps and see them with SonarCharts. It looks like a wifi signal. Its addicting!

Permalink Reply by Justin Whisler on August 25, 2014 at 11:57pm

Ya very cool!

Permalink Reply by Russ Kroeker on August 26, 2014 at 2:36pm