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I bought a Lakemaster card today for my humminbird but while I was on the website tonight I saw a program they also sell. I tend to like software like this but I was figuring someone on here has it and can maybe offer some advice/review of before I spend the xtra cash on it. Its listed for $149.00.......
SFS Contour Elite
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Contour Elite is a fantastic planning tool. I love it for scouting new lakes, and helping me pinpoint productive locations on lakes I'm more familiar with.
Contour Elite offers a free trial period, I believe it's 14 days, during which you can download and test drive the software (for one lake in MN) at no cost. If you like it, then you can pony up and enjoy one of the full versions indefinitely. Here's the link to the free trial offer:
Trial
Hey that is very helpful and a trial version is always something I like before I spend the kind of cash they want.
Hey KAG I went ahead and bought the Contour Elite program for Texas/Oklahoma and I really like it. It has showed me so much about the lake I fish all the time and a couple more I am going to try sometime. Makes a nice toy on rainy days. Got ahead and get you one. Ferdi aka Fred
Ok, broke down and bought it......we will see. After I get it I will post a review of the product
Please let us know what you think about it!
Well the program arrived. I loaded it up and have been playing with it quite a bit. I can say so far I really like it for the 3D and fish search features. Was it worth $149.....I hope so and so far I think it will really help in truly understanding the lake I fish. There were several hundred lakes on the program. The red areas are the computer software indicating where I should find Walleye at that given time / pattern. You can export the gps data to your unit for use on the water as well as import water based data into the program to help build a data base
I realize this is an old post, but I am wondering if you can mark waypoints on the contour elite pc software and then upload them to a garmin handheld gps? And vice versa...from gps to contour elite? Basically use the contour elite software as a waypoint management tool which will also visually show your waypoints on a contour map(not google earth). If this won't work is there anything out there that will do such a thing? Thanks.
Mark
Probably not as detailed as the Lakemaster, but will do what you want. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/maps.../prod1404.html You can preview lakes that interest you on their website. The CD loads on your computer and you can view all the US lakes, mark and save waypoints and routes, then load the maps etc onto your device.Quote:
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Thanks for the link shellback. You are right about the detail not being as good with the garmin maps. I should have also mentioned that I will be getting a HB 998 SI at the helm soon and I was hoping to use the contour elite to plug the garmin hand held unit into, save waypoints (in HB format) and then export to HB 998. I have several hundred waypoints to manage. It would be good to be able to do the opposite also...mark waypoint on HB, export to contour elite then upload to garmin. I realize this would probably be alot easier with 2 birds interlinked (without using the garmin) but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up my garmin in the front of the boat yet. Thanks.
Mark
Mark,
You may be able to move waypoints back and forth between the units using HumminbirdPC and GPS Babel. HumminbirdPC will allow you to save the Humminbird waypoints in the *.GPX file format. I think that GPS Babel will allow you to take the *.GPX format and convert them to Garmin’s format. You should be able to go the other way as well. Both are free programs.
Thanks Greg
I think I may have read with GPS Babel that you would have to do them one at a time? If you can't do the whole file at once it would be a pain...but still doable I guess. Does anybody know? Thanks.
Mark
The little bit I have used GPS Babel I have always worked with files of waypoints, not one at a time.
Thanks alot Greg. Going to look into it further.