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[QUOTE]lambeau - 4/25/2010  6:29 PM

hi Pat, ready for that new Tuffy to hit the water???

you need to be careful about the answers you get to a question like this: it's good to get answers from people with recent first-hand experience using the new chips out on the water.
both the Navionics and Lakemaster chips on LotW are works in progress, adding more area and detail with each upgrade. look at the listing of updates from year-to-year to see what was done, ask the manufacturers about it, and then ask people who are out there using them on their home water.

last year i found the Navionics Premium chip to have quite good detail through the NW Angle for both zooming in close while fishing and zooming out for navigating. that said, i don't know the water well enough to recognize if a spot is mapped exactly right or wrong in every instance.
one very big limitation that was obvious to me was that they did not include the primary travel lanes! the Lakemaster chips and the older Navionics chips have them, but the Navionics '09 Premium did not include them. (???)
my Humminbird had the NVB map bundle with the Navionics Gold marine charts and old HotMaps fishing maps, so when making long runs i would switch the display to the old maps and follow the safe travel lane. if you're going to be fishing LotW very much with the new Navionics chip, this alone would make it worth the NVB bundle or putting an old Navionics chip or a Lakemaster chip in the second chip-slot on that Humminbird.

i like my Navionics chips quite a lot; i'll be adding the Lakemaster this year as well so that i can use the better one for the particular area i'm fishing at any given time. if i had to get just one, i like the value of the Navionics chip due to the area covered on one chip.

the same discussion is going on at Baystore's site, with a couple of guys all weighing in who know LotW better than anyone else on the planet...
http://www.baystorecamp.com/reports.htm
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Posted 4/25/2010 6:29 PM (#437433 - in reply to #437262)
Subject: RE: Best Chip for LOW???

hi Pat, ready for that new Tuffy to hit the water???

you need to be careful about the answers you get to a question like this: it's good to get answers from people with recent first-hand experience using the new chips out on the water.
both the Navionics and Lakemaster chips on LotW are works in progress, adding more area and detail with each upgrade. look at the listing of updates from year-to-year to see what was done, ask the manufacturers about it, and then ask people who are out there using them on their home water.

last year i found the Navionics Premium chip to have quite good detail through the NW Angle for both zooming in close while fishing and zooming out for navigating. that said, i don't know the water well enough to recognize if a spot is mapped exactly right or wrong in every instance.
one very big limitation that was obvious to me was that they did not include the primary travel lanes! the Lakemaster chips and the older Navionics chips have them, but the Navionics '09 Premium did not include them. (???)
my Humminbird had the NVB map bundle with the Navionics Gold marine charts and old HotMaps fishing maps, so when making long runs i would switch the display to the old maps and follow the safe travel lane. if you're going to be fishing LotW very much with the new Navionics chip, this alone would make it worth the NVB bundle or putting an old Navionics chip or a Lakemaster chip in the second chip-slot on that Humminbird.

i like my Navionics chips quite a lot; i'll be adding the Lakemaster this year as well so that i can use the better one for the particular area i'm fishing at any given time. if i had to get just one, i like the value of the Navionics chip due to the area covered on one chip.

the same discussion is going on at Baystore's site, with a couple of guys all weighing in who know LotW better than anyone else on the planet...
http://www.baystorecamp.com/reports.htm

Edited by lambeau 4/25/2010 6:38 PM