Best hand help GPS with lake map?

I am looking for a new hand help GPS with lake master chip or the lowrance chip
suggestions?

Your current Android phone or iPhone/iPad with Navionics boating app best $10 you’ll ever spend.

You can even try it for free for a day.

x2 on Navionics for iPhone. However, walking out on Lake Independence last night I was looking for those 2 underwater islands/humps that I fish all the time in the summer and what do you know, nothing on the Navionics to indicate they exist. Very frustrating. By and large, I do find the Navionics app to be pretty dang slick though.

tigermusky wrote:

Your current Android phone or iPhone/iPad with Navionics boating app best $10 you’ll ever spend.

You can even try it for free for a day.

This.

Grouse

A 788 with lakemaster on a genz box.
Or navionics will be a much cheaper substitute.

JD Winston wrote:

x2 on Navionics for iPhone. However, walking out on Lake Independence last night I was looking for those 2 underwater islands/humps that I fish all the time in the summer and what do you know, nothing on the Navionics to indicate they exist. Very frustrating. By and large, I do find the Navionics app to be pretty dang slick though.

Yeah, I was on Medicine Wed. night and noticed the same thing. I had transferred over a waypoint from my HDS 7 to the app. First thing I noted was the waypoint showed up in 27ft of water even though I know it was like 12-13ft. When I got there and punched the hole, it was 10-15ft. So, the map was probably generated from an older DNR map. The app does have the ability to flip on sonar charts, but maybe nobody has sent in more recent sonar log data?

Coffee wrote:

I am looking for a new hand help GPS with lake master chip or the lowrance chip
suggestions?

Navionics had no cotours for what I caught but lakemaster did but it was from the old school lakemaster garmin.
I should say it was not just me. To clarify it was with my bud who brought me along.
Yes the top one is a 14 incher

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Thanks, I have the Navionics on my iphone but I was looking for unit similar to the Lowrance Expedition unit where I can enter and transfer way points.

Is there a good hand held unit like the newer Garmin 62S that can use the Lake master chip or Navionics.

When Lake Master abandoned the handheld market a huge hole was left that has never been completely filled. I cant believe this many years later so many of us are still looking for a comparable product to the old LM/Lowrance.
I’m still using mine but some day it wont be an option.
And I am not sold on phones. They are not durable and I have too many important and job related things on my cell phone to use it outside as a GPS for hunting and fishing.

If you have the Navionics App I would suggest the 9.99 upgrade from the free version and if already have it get the Nav+ upgrade it gives you more detail in the SonarCharts layer

Plus, isn’t a phone based GPS app only as good as the cell phone reception? I’ve been told the new Garmin maps are really good but still muddle along with my older Lakemaster chip for my Garmin handheld (62st) fine enough.

My garmin Colorado is excellent even more than my new Montana. On the Montana you can’t just cursor over to a remote waypoint and lay one down. On the Colorado you can. I’m using an old lakemaster Wi chip, pre Johnson outdoors. You can find them on eBay occasionally.