With technology growing rapidly, more ways to map and find fish seem to be introduced each year. The latest is instant mapping. The question is, aside from mapping your own lake, how can this be used in everyday fishing or help me on tournament day? Edwin Evers uses Navionics SonarChart Live and explained at last year’s Bassmaster Classic that it helped him fish inside timber. These areas of thick timber aren’t able to get a past survey boat in-between so these instant one foot contours, helped him identify deeper holes or creek beds within the timber to locate where his better fish are coming from.

Fishing on reefs or underwater structure, SonarChart live can be very helpful in just taking a few extra minutes to troll over the area and get a real time contour map. This will identify the exact breakpoints, high points, specific broken pieces, and just dial in exactly where you might want to cast or anchor.

Navionics SonarChart Live can be used at any speed as long as your transducer can hold bottom. Its available on Raymarine, Lowrance, Simrad, Vexilar, and other wireless transducers using the Navionics App as well. See www.Navionics.com for more details.