Bought the app, and it has nothing on it for Lake Conway! Just a blue lake with no details! Anyone have any suggestions? At least I can save waypoints now I guess.
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Bought the app, and it has nothing on it for Lake Conway! Just a blue lake with no details! Anyone have any suggestions? At least I can save waypoints now I guess.
I'd be interested to know!!
Conway is not available currently on the app. with the maps the offer today. Remember you have to purchase different maps for different regions. Also, be careful not to leave the app running, it is a battery drainer!!!!
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Thanks Midsouth, I'll at least be able to mark some my condos until I get me a fishfinder unit.
Yep that's exactly what I did and now that I've got my finder with GPS I can pull up the spot on my phone and mark them on my finder. As for the blue only over at Conway.....it's just some lakes like that. Pan over to those Hot Springs lakes or even Nimrod and take a look at all the iso bars and marked stuff, pretty neat. I fish on Dequeen, Gillham, Deirks, and over on Pine Creek in OK and none of those lakes show much on my Iphone Nav. For the most part they are accurate but some area's you'll find are shallower or deeper than your phone shows but for the most part if you watch your cheaper finder while idling around in the boat on lakes that have a little bit of depth change you'll see it matches up with depth changes. Here's how I marked my spots on the phone: Dequeen 15-20' CB5. That's the lake, then depth range, then CB for crappie brush and like 5 for the 5th spot I marked, next would be number 6 and so on. I found it's easier to go back and look it up on the phone that way when you fish multiple lakes. Now my only test will be once I get the chip for my finder, that's able to read it already, can I transfer or sink all those spots straight over from the phone Nav. to the finder Nav.??? I ain't bought the chip yet though.
Thanks for the tips on naming the waypoints. I've never fished Dardenelle and it seems to have some pretty good info on it, so I think I may have to expand my territory. I plan on getting a cheap but respectable fishfinder soon. Any recommendations on a good one with a ducer I can mount on my trolling motor?Quote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
HB 581 I DI. It's not color but it is a awesome graph for the money. It has GPS, and down imaging, and a great sonar. Best investment I have made for a depth/fish finder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conwayslabber
Mines the Hummingbird 587. It has about everything except side imagining. I got to try it out today for the first time and must say if your mounting it to the trolling motor you should be fine but I mounted mine to the back of the boat by drilling holes into my fiberglass boat which I didn't wanna do but everyone said it will read just fine....now it won't read once I'm up on plane and moving:mad::mad::mad:!!! My only hope is that once I get the Navatronics chip I can keep from running aground by using that alone without the aid if reading depth while running. It does just fine idling around though. I marked 3 piles today with it, 2 I just made and one existing one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conwayslabber
How are the maps that come with it, particularly the lake maps or do you have to buy those separate?I just want to make sure its got a lake Conway map, since that the place is fish the most. I don't know to much about fish finders, just know that i'm at a disadvantage without being able to whats under the water
Well it's just a map of the lake with all one color but it will show you as a little boat moving around out there and you just hit the mark button when you wanna mark a spot. SO that's all the maps it has.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conwayslabber
I have the Navionics on my Atrix2 and use it occasionally when I don't want to switch the humminbird to the maps. David and I were fishing the AR river above Redfield this weekend and I used it to check out some areas we hadn't fished before. Midsouth is right about it being a battery hog......don't forget to turn it off like I did, LOL!!
Yea i figured it was gonna be all blue with no help, but I thought I would ask anyway. I checked some of the map packs and they don't have Conway on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
Thanks for the info guru. I looked at a bunch of them on the net today, and for the price, the HB 581 I DI makes perfect sense. I really like the setup of it. Now if i can figure out how to put the ducer on my trolling motor, I think I might get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lkconwayguru
Now thats the easy part. Run the ducer cord down your T.motor shaft with zip ties and around the head use a big hose clamp to attach it to the T.motor head. My T.motor has a little fin at the bottom which protects the ducer on my motorguide T.motor. I stuff the excess cord up under a seal between the carpet and the fiberglass of the boat right up to the unit itself. My big issue is the ducer at the back of the boat.....there's not a good place on any boat these days to mount the ducer at the back unless you epoxy the darn thing in the bottom of the boat and then your water temp isn't accurate and it's a pain to get in there to stick it without getting air bubbles that affect the accuracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conwayslabber
Thanks skeet you've been a lot of help. I thought about getting a ducer to put inside te boat and remembered my boat is aluminum and Im almost certain that's would cause issues. Plus I hate dealin with wires which is why I'm going for the trollingQuote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
Motor option cause its gonna be mounted on the front anyway.
Well I will say this my buddy has a late 90's express aluminum boat that he just mounted a ducer, Hummer 587 just like mine, to the back of the boat. His only gripe now is once it shows fish it's showing them at the back of the boat not at the front where he's fishing as he's done past them. I said well you and I both know from having bass rigs the only way to stop that is to get a finder at the front and back. Back so you can run watching depth and front one to fish off of. As for the mounting of the ducer in back of his little Aluminum boat it recommends drilling the holes in the back of the boat, from outside now and attaching the ducer right at the bottom where the only thing showing its the about half the ducer. The ducer has a seam bout half way down it where you line up with the bottom of the boat. The instructions from Hummingbird show that though. It reads great for him even going near 30mph down the lake. A little bit of clutter while moving, prolly from prop distortion though and he could set his sensitivity down just a hair and live with that as he agreed. I've heard there's no way to mount and in floor setup of the ducer in an aluminum boat as it won't read through the aluminum like it will fiberglass. Good luck either way you go and glad to be of any help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conwayslabber
What did you give for hb587?
I'm gonna go with the trolling motor mount cause the finder is going to be on the front anyway. I found a feller on here that has a better price than any place ive looked around at. Problem is he is out of stock on the 581 right now, so i'm going wait on him to get some inventory and save a few bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
Bass I gave $417 through Digital Oasis out of FL but they are down to $387 I think now. Beware though that Digital Oasis liked to never got my credit card to go through. It was an address problem was all. I'm happy with it so far other than the fact it won't work while the boat's up on plane and running, not sure if it's an air pocket, prop wash/distortion, or even that it's outa the water which I don't think is happening. I've already drilled holes though so I'll have to get more facts before I re-mount it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bassgas