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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Will the base unit play the 3D Lakemaster in 3D?? |
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| Any of the HDS units should work. You need to have a 3d chip from Lakemaster and on the HDS unit you will need to set it to 3d. I hope I answered the right question for you. I am assuming you mean between the HDS Base unit and the HDS Insight. I have 3 HDS base 7s I am running on my boat right now. I have numerous Lakemaster chips and one navionics chip. If you have any question you can get my number from Chris.
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| Which do you like better Lakemaster or Navionics? On the fence on which one to get. Thanks |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Thanks Jeff answer I needed, might pick up a 3D Lakemaster then for my trips up north. Maybe I can talk Chris and Travis into a trip your way yet this fall...The fun of rigging a new boat, getting all the cool new stuff.... |
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| Personally I like the Lakemaster better. Although I am biased.  In Minnesota more musky lakes are covered in High Def (where lakemaster boats have done their own on the water surveys) than Navionics which is important to me. On LOTW, Sabaskong and Miles bay are high Def (on the water surveying with lakemaster boats) Navionics in that area uses Canadian mapping data I believe and does not have as much detail. If you run Hummingbirds, Lakemaster has a neat feature. That being said, Navionics also has good maps on the lakes where they have done actual on the water surveying as well. Kind of cool to run both side by side sometimes. So I guess its kind of like a chevy vs ford argument, except for a few of my above points. Hope that helps
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Jeff, you believe Navionics only uses Canadian mapping? Are you a Lakemaster prostaffer?
Both chips have their advantages on certain bodies of waters or even certain sections of some lakes, however, one of the nicest things about the Navionics chip is that it offers multiple states for each chip.
The North chip includes Wisconsin, Minnesota(all of LOTW is included on the North and on the Canada chip), North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Michigan, where as the Lakemaster only offers their chips state to state.
I suggest taking a look at the Navionics Platinum. The Platinum costs a bit extra, but I have been finding out that the Platinum is quite a bit better and dead on like no other GPS chip I've ever seen.
If you get a chance, borrow a friends chip, try it out and see which one is better for the lakes you mainly fish. |
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| TJ,
I would not consider myself a prostaffer, but know those guys quite well. That is why I made the comment I am biased. I used some of their stuff in an article I wrote for EA Magazine a few years ago and I have been used in a few advertisements.
In reguards to LOTW, my comment was about Sabaskong and Miles bay areas. I fish those areas a bit more than the NW angle and Lakemaster has better detail in those areas. On the Minnesota side I believe both Lakemaster and Navionics have done mapping. You also made some good points on Navionics chips.
I have both chips and have 5 graphs on my boat all Lowrances. I wish I had a couple birds, but how many graphs does one need?
Hope that helps clarify your question.
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| i ran the Lakemaster and Navionics chips side-by-side on the NW Angle this year, and talked a fair amount to Jeff about them when we were both up there on the lake...
both chips clearly used the Canadian paper maps in that part of the lake, and had not done their own mapping - missing some islands, listing some islands with trees as "submerged humps", etc. they both offer good overall accuracy (as the paper maps are quite good), but do not provide a level of precision that would come from doing their own mapping.
on a Humminbird unit the Lakemaster could highlight depth ranges, displays the travel routes, and you can turn off the contour lines - nice features for long runs. the downside was a very slow screen load when changing zooms.
the Navionics chips were uncluttered and easier to read, zoomed fast and smooth, but did not include the safe travel routes.
i must say i was disappointed in the advertising by Lakemaster. their website's coverage map shows the Angle as "high definition", and while this is technically true it was clear that they just filled in more lines to get 1' contours without actually doing their own mapping in that part of the lake. i dropped $120 for the chip based on the website and they should have been more clear about it.
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| I run Lowrance HDS's and fish mostly WI with the yearly trip to Vermilion. Ive run lakemaster in my last boat and want to find who has the best features before buying again. The Navionics having multiple states sounds like a nice feature. Thanks for the help! |
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| It really comes down to where you do most of your fishing. I really used to lean towards the Navionics as I liked the color shading better, and as others mentioned, liked the value of the chip, getting multiple states on one. With that said, I vacation on a number of lakes in WI and MN, that are only mapped in high def on the Lakemaster chip, so it is a no brainer. the lakes mapped in high def on the LM chip are for the most part, dead on. Lakemaster has also improved the color shading, so one doesn't need to read the contour lines to see the basic depth range one is in.
Does anyone know if I can select for certain depth ranges on my HDS 7, to be in a different color shade, similar to that of the Humminbird? Just a neat feature, that I wouldn't mind using. The instructions are a bit vaque, but do mention something of that nature. |
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| To the best of my knowledge that feature only works with birds. It was one of the reasons I nearly went hummingbird. I ended up going Lowrance over the networking and icon features. I think with Lowrance you can do somethings, but nothing like the color highlighting feature on hummingbird. I have a lakemaster insight card that shows 3d. Occasionally I switch that to 2d for a more definate color contrast from shallow to deep. I do like the 3d for helping with observing structure from a zoomed out angle.
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Location: Wisconsin | Switch over to night mode and the contrast is better on the maps. |
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