Lake Master vs. Navonics

I know there has to be a post on this but I can not find it. Which is better?

I use them in a hand held Lowrance H2Oc and prefer the lakemaster.

It loads faster and I do not have to select my location from 27 different maps.

I’ve had them both.

For the areas I fish LakeMaster hands down.

…but that might not be right for you. What areas are you fishing?

If your fishing around Hutch and the west metro your better off with navionics. It’s got more of the tiny little lakes than lake master and some not all are mutch better with the layout of the contours

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What areas are you fishing?

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I fish Central MN most, however I do also fish a few times in LOW and NE MN. I use a Hunt C so pretty much the same unit as you.

I tell people to make a list of the lakes they fish and then check to see which chip has more of those lakes in High Definition.

I have both chips, but for me Navionics has more of the Alexandria lakes than Lake Master does. With that said whenever I can I use the LakeMaster chip. I think LakeMaster has more accurate maps.

I have a 3 year old Navonics Map already and was going to upgrade, however what I am hearing is keep using Navonics, get a Lake Master Chip for LOW and later upgrade to Lake Master for local lakes and give my OLD chip to one of my kids.

I have a 2009 navionics chip that I can use in the hb 788 or the iFinder. I love it. With that said I think Lake Master has 1 ft contours vs the 5 ft contours on the navionics. I guess it does really depend on where you will be fishing the most. The navionics chip has most of the cribs in my surrounding lakes marked and gives some spots to catch specific fish species too. The thing I liked about the navionics is you got a much bigger area. I travel to Brainerd a lot to my family’s cabin and the navionics chip covered them all for one price vs. having to buy 2 Lake Master chips.

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I know there has to be a post on this but I can not find it. Which is better?

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Here are a couple conversations we’ve had on LakeMaster’s mapping chips:

LakeMaster

LakeMaster2

Its no secret I’m a LakeMaster fan. The Road maps and Points of interest are a very nice feaure to have. I flip flop 3 different chips between MN and the dakotas. The processing time is short and theres no sorting through which area you’re in.

I have a Garmin, so the only option for me is Lakemaster. I agree that Lakemaster has a better product, but it gets expensive.

I wish I could have got a navonics chip for my garmin (navonics doesn’t make anything for a garmin.) For a Lowrance GPS, a $150 would have gave me a navonics chip with much of the Midwest region. With Lakemaster, you have to buy every state that your going to fish and its about $100 for each state.

Heres what I mean by “other data”. If I’m on the lake, and need a cheese burger on shore, its pretty simple to figure it out.