Gps help and fish pics!

I recently purchased a Lowrance Elite5-HDI. I marked some PVC crappie trees I sank last year. Saved as waypoint. Trouble is that I cant find the structure after I mark it and float by. I am using the the factory installed map. Would getting a insight Genesis card be more accurate and help get me ontop of the waypoints? Thanks!

Here a few fish I caught this weekend running minnows under a slip bobber. Set @ 8ft deep in 15-16FOW. Too windy to fish anything else.
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An external antenna would probably help you out a lot. It seems that the internal antenna that is built in is not the best.

Its hard to find plastic on your units until there is algea starts growing on them. Might take a couple or three years for that to happen.

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Originally Posted by kfehrma

An external antenna would probably help you out a lot. It seems that the internal antenna that is built in is not the best.

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Thanks I suppose if that is more accurate I will look into getting one of those.

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Originally Posted by bowhunter012463

Its hard to find plastic on your units until there is algea starts growing on them. Might take a couple or three years for that to happen.

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I had no issue at all locating it with the DOWNSCAN or the Sonar. Clear as a picture. However, I cannot find it once I try to return to that exact spot. The gps doesn't seem to be very accurate.

The GPS is pretty accurate but your antenna in the unit puts you the distance from unit to transducer as a difference or error. In essence when you go back to the way point you could be 2 or 3 times that difference from the spot. Get you a external antenna/ GPS receiver and mount it as close as possible to transducer. Next time take a buoy, when you mark structure toss the buoy and mark way point. Go away from it then come back to the way point on unit then check how far you are from buoy. Try this in a couple of different places to give you a idea of what's going on that you can visualize.

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Originally Posted by cray

The GPS is pretty accurate but your antenna in the unit puts you the distance from unit to transducer as a difference or error. In essence when you go back to the way point you could be 2 or 3 times that difference from the spot. Get you a external antenna/ GPS receiver and mount it as close as possible to transducer. Next time take a buoy, when you mark structure toss the buoy and mark way point. Go away from it then come back to the way point on unit then check how far you are from buoy. Try this in a couple of different places to give you a idea of what's going on that you can visualize.

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Hey thanks alot! I will look into a Lowrance external antenna. Hopefully this helps!

I heard that your curser has to be on the exact spot that you want to mark or it could be off.

Main thing is like cray said, get an external antenna. Not so much necessary for a green carp fisherman but really necessary for us perch jerkers because we want an exact mark on a spot not a relative mark and we want to be able to find it immediately. That's my opinion!

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Originally Posted by birdman

Main thing is like cray said, get an external antenna. Not so much necessary for a green carp fisherman but really necessary for us perch jerkers because we want an exact mark on a spot not a relative mark and we want to be able to find it immediately. That's my opinion!

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:hesaid right on the money.........................

Also......The waypoint you marked doesn't have anything to do with the mapping card. The waypoint is overlayed on the map.....not part of the map. The waypoint would be the same no matter what map card you use.

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Originally Posted by birdman

Main thing is like cray said, get an external antenna. Not so much necessary for a green carp fisherman but really necessary for us perch jerkers because we want an exact mark on a spot not a relative mark and we want to be able to find it immediately. That's my opinion!

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Thank You!

Get a good hand held and use it to find your sets. I will argue this every day that a good hand held is way more accurate than any other. I have two 898 side and down scans and it gets me close but no where near as close as my trusty hand held. I never go out in the boat with out it. And if I find a stake bed scanning I will also mark it with my hand held. My two cents.

CX.

I'll second that, always have my Garmin Summit with me, very reliable.

Thanks guys!