When it came time to put the in-dash sonar/gps I had a decision to make.
Which brand. For better or worse, I chose the ‘Bird Helix 7.
I went with ‘Bird mostly because I’ve been a loyal to a fault Lowrance guy and I wanted to see what the “other side” was like for myself. But that’s not the point of this post.
The Favorite Wife hasn’t been past the train bridge in the Vermilion. With the high water, I thought it would be a good time to show her that the world did not end at the train bridge and there was life in the In Land Waters of Minnesota.
I’m not going to pretend that I get back there myself much because well, I hear there are pirates lurking. But we made it past TI someplace before turning around.
It was during this trip that I figured out I might want to add a Navionics chip to the ‘Bird. I found that I was mostly boating on dry ground and I kinda missed the depth contours.
I ordered the Navionics + North chip and it should arrive on Friday. I’ll post the after picture once I plug in the card.
Here’s the screen shot of the Skeeter working it’s way across the river bottoms. 
PS don’t pay attention to my golden blonde arm or the reflection of my finger…it’s the red trail and the blue water (or lack of it) that will make the difference.
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