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Location: N Illinois | Cabelas has a great deal on graph so looking to upgrade my 10 year old unit. Question, what maps are you using. Fish primarily Midwest and LOTW's?
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Location: Green Bay, WI | I just bought an HDS12/HDS9 (Gen-3) combo, with the Insights maps. Your question is a good one though--I think there is only a Navionics option right now, although I've seen a few threads that seemed to suggest that Lakemaster chips might still work under certain situations. That's not clear to me though, so from what I can tell...it's Navionics.
But I'm certainly interested in what others have to say on this, as I may need to get something else as well.
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Location: Eastern Ontario | See whats available free on the Insite Genisis Social Map for your area. I make my own maps using that site and except for very small rivers I and many others leave them public. When you make your own you get things like bottom hardness and vegetation that you don't get on the Social maps but you do get contours. |
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Location: 31 | I just use the maps that come with the unit 
Edited by Jerry Newman 6/13/2017 9:29 PM
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| I had the same question and my resort buddy up at LOTW recommended the Navionics PREM-N6 NORTH. I live in northern Illinois and fish all over Wisconsin and so far this has worked well.
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| I would rec. Navionics + US and Canada one card covers all of US and Canada. It come preloaded with the Navionics base map, you then download the High Definition Sonar Chart layer to the card of the areas you fish. The reason they dont load all the SonarChart layer on the card it will not hold all of US and Canada, but you can load a large areas and multiple SonarChart layer locations. You get a a year of updates with a new card, what this means you can refresh the data on the card as many times as you want in year to keep the data on your card updated with any mapping changes from Navionics.
You can preview all lake maps online at https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@6&key=%7B%7CkoGfinxP
Zoom in and click on the icon on the lower left and select SonarChart to view the high def maps.
If you desire to renew your freshest data program after the first year for another year its 50% of the new card price.
Edited by kirth 6/18/2017 7:18 AM
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Coverage in the US may be better but for areas I know well here in Canada the sonar view could get you in a lot of trouble. If you fish a lake a lot record your sonar logs and make your own maps using Lowrance Insite Genisis. The social maps are a good starting point but nothing equals your own.I can get bottom hardness as well as a vegetation layer.
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Location: N Illinois | Thanks for the replies. The Cabela's sale was supposed to be until July 2. Went to make purchase on Sunday June 18, sold out......that'll teach me to research...lol |
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