Thread: just being curious

Originally Posted by ezdaar

As a new boater, with a pos 15 year old HB I was scared sheitless out on the lake at night!
I have a lake map but Lake houston is NOT known for staying the same very long at all..
So my map was basicly WORTHLESS!. One night I steped out of the boat into 6" water, where my map said it was 10'! Middle of the lake!

Well I bought used HB 797, and can honestly say it has increased my confidence by 1000! Considering I fish mainly at night. After marking every stump, shallow spot etc. I now cruise at night as I would during the day!. But I still run a spotlight watching for floaters.
Bro GPS IS THE WAY TO GO!
I mark every brush pile, log, ledge I find! Like rnvinc above I had hundreds of waypoints, tracks, and markers!




Find a unit you can afford, save up the cash, Than save some more! buy the next larger screen size you can!
Its all about visibility! A GPS dont mean sheit if you cant see whats on the display!

haha. do you have to buy maps for the lakes? if i was to fish rend mostly would i have to buy that map or would it just know i was at rend?

It should know you're at rend lake if it's got a base map that comes standard in the unit, which most all do that I know of. I would get something that takes an sd card or at least can download maps of lakes off of your computer. You will like the contour lines in a detailed map - very handy. They allow you to see flats,ledges, channels (which is also a good place to avoid stumps), humps, etc. I used a handheld on the lake for a few years until I got a 788ci. The Magellan is a good unit, and worked good for brushpiles and stumps, but for navigation the HB with the lake map is the way to go.