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Location: KY | Does anyone use Bing Maps as a scouting tool? The “Birds Eye View” feature can show some incredible detail. Unfortunately it is not available in all areas. It seems to be changing as there data base is updated sometimes you can look at a spot with a boat on it, then the next time you look at it the boat is gone.
Hope I haven’t broken any rules with this one.
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Location: Syracuse, Indiana | Looks like an awesome tool. Too bad it is not available for the Indiana and Minnesota Lakes I checked. Thanks for the tip. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | i have used online maps for finding spots on rivers, works pretty good if you know what to look for on a river. |
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Location: New Hope MN | I've been using the google map. Sometimes you get lucky and can see structure, nothing like this tho. and very rarely, you can see the lake froze over with ice houses. Works great for the open water crappies (Forest lake is like this). |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
Very nice, but the maps for my area are at least 5 years old. I'll keep an eye open for when they update them. Thanks for the tip ! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | prior to heading back to eagle i spent lots of time the month before going over the shapes and features of all the spots we fish and found google maps to be a good tool. visualizing is a method i use a lot in my work and it works well for me. some may think it's crazy to think that resting with an image in your head can be useful, but i swear by it. if you can't "imagine", how i the world can you "do"?
back in the lotw times we did similar things and then cataloged all of our spots with pictures or drawings so that we knew what we had prior to fishing based on cumulative learning over the prior years. one year the water was down so bad, so we took advantage and took pictures to add to the catalog. that was a huge assistance ... |
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| Try flashearth.com, Let's you compare maps and great detail.
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Location: Suburban Chicago | I thought maybe the maps were old, but the aerial view of my house shows the pallets of shingles sitting on the driveway that were there just last spring before a roofing job. Amazing |
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Location: Wisconsin | Check out the bing maps of Oconomowoc, a clear lake, you can pretty much pick out most of the structure elements in that lake. I do use it to scout lakes, especially clear lakes that you can see the bottom from the sat. Pretty cool....
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Location: Oshkosh | Very nice. I have always used google maps, but this is more detailed and updated. Another thing I use it for is if I am looking at public land to hunt on, you can really save yourself sometime by looking on something like this first. Just think, these are the satellites that they let us have access to. Imagine what the military ones can do!
Peter
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Location: Chicagoland | those bing maps are really amazing and the Birds-eye view is the best. I find that the images actually change and sometimes you can get a view of the lake at different seasons. As stated above, it is not available for some of our out of the way destinations but its great for urban and suburban waters.
We'll be seeing fish on spawn beds if the imagery gets any any better. Good luck guys/gals...
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