Quote Originally Posted by gabowman View Post
I think all I would need is Hartwell, Russell, and Clark Hill and Lake Moultrie and Marion. I could buy either Navonics or LakeMaster but wouldn't get all 5 lakes. I'd need 2 chips for all of them. I'm not too up on how to download maps. Any info anywhere on how to do this?!?
I have the Navionics US & Canada chip. I had it in a Lowrance I sold and use it in my Helix, because the subscription is good until Sept. "20. You can get all 5 of those lakes for sure. If you go to the Navionics.com website, select "Chart Viewer", you can zoom in and see the lakes details of the maps. There are 2 in one maps, with the Navionics nautical charts and the "Sonarchart" maps. In the Helix menu, the SonarChart maps are called "fish 'n chip". I pretty much use the SonarChart layer all the time, it is pretty accurate on my lakes in GA.

To load an area onto the Navionics card, you use their "chart installer" program, and just use the mouse to draw a box that includes all the lakes you want, then select "download". It is pretty easy.