It then calculates and draws the depth contours on the map. Seconds later you have a fishing map, with accurate depths all around you. If you go out in a boat to see a feature shown on your lake map, the PDA GPS navigation will give you accurate instructions how far, what direction over the featureless water surface, until you are right over, or right in front of - doesn't scare the fish!
Not a prediction of the future I use this system from small boats. But some places do not allow boating, so I have designed a baitboat to carry my lake mapping equipment over the lake making the fishing maps automatically for me while I fish from the shore. More details to follow soon. The software you need to make your own GPS fishing maps of your local lakes and rivers. Not many folks want to get into making their own maps, but I've been doing it for a long time now.
Just getting myself off from paper and onto sonar-GPS digital took a bit of spare time study. The Lowrance. LcmMapedit is the freeware program for making Lowrance map files.
It produces the lcm file ready for uploading, so the Garmin requirement of final conversion into an img file is not necessary. Then Drdepth puts them into a database, and will produce the depth contours if desired. Don't let the apparent complexity of this put you off - it is quite easy when you have tried it. Just click on on the hyperlinks beneath. If you loved this article or discovered it helpful, please take a second to leave a remark and let me know.
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