:) Finally got my weathersense thingamajig in the mail today from Humminbird,
my freebie for buying a 700 series df... been waiting forever, backordered.
But the question is on another topic, Navionics mapping cards.
Have any of you using them found any really odd ERRORS on them?
I just got an '08 South, the first year for my home lake with them, and it
is in HD with the 1' contour lines - yee ha.
But the first evening I plugged it in and started looking at the map, I zoomed
in on one of my old spots, and noticed an incredible looking offshore hump...
I'd fished a brushpile on a drop close to there off and on for years, but had
just sort of looked over that area as "dead water" - deep, no channel,
just like a lot of that lake, flat and deep. Immediately it started running through my head, wow - maybe that's why that spot has always been
hit-n-miss, when they're not on the drop, maybe they're out on that hump!
Long story short, I trolled ALL over that area Monday, and THERE AIN"T
NO SUCH HUMP! It shows a roundish hump coming up to a peak of 25'
surrounded by 32' of water - but I zig-zagged all over the place, thinking
maybe the map's calibration was just off a bit - but no hump to be found.
I got to thinking, a LOT of the time big balls of shad will make even my
newer df's read the top of the school as bottom momentarily - you don't
think those dudes mapped a school of shad do you? :D
I think the next time the big crappie tourneys come to town, I'm gonna
just go sit next to that spot and watch everybody looking for that hump :D
It looks like a sure-fire killer spot, but :confused:
