Quinte Fishing

I'm looking at pickin' up a handheld - and I'd H2O depth countours as well as topographical terra firma maps. Want to b able to mark TONS of waypoints...

I've looked at Garmin and Lowrance... I'm wondering if anyone has any tips/guidance....

Cheers,
L

Speaking from experience ... Hands down ... no question ... and with all the confidence ... Get the Garmin GPSMap 76CSx
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=145

I along with many of my coworkers use this reliably all over Ontario and beyond. Our work takes us to many remote locations and it has never let anyone down. We have added the Bluechart Americas for Bathymetric mapping (purchased especially for Quinte) and also Trak Topo Ontario another software package that provides even greater trail and topography detail than the basic Mapsource base layers. Tonnes of room for waypoints and routes (as I forced an 8GB card into the unit) ... great screen for viewing where you have been and where you want to go ... and is even pretty good at city navigation and place finding in urban environments. Worth the money .... now if it only could predict where there was safe ice and fish to catch!!!!!!!!!
around $400.00 so you know ... add another $150.00 for software if you want...




Hope this helps

Stay away from the new Lowrance Endura. I just bought one and returned it. The released the GPS but it does not support the navionics map cards yet-making it useless for me. I dropped my Ifinder H20 and wanted to replace it, I ended up getting the Ifinder ExpeditionC it is basiclly the same as my H20 but in colour(the H20 is discountinued) and I am quite happy with it but very disappointed with the endura.
You can get the Expediton from Navico in Mississauga(905 629 1614) for $350 and another $150 for the hotmaps card and you can't go wrong, lots of detail and very accurate. I use mine on Simcoe, Quinte, L Ontario and Temagami. I looked at Garmin but I can't use their mapcards in my Lowrance fishfinder GPS, they look like nice units but no good if you have a Lowrance Finder/GPS on the boat.
Hope this helps
KGB

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KGB

Gentlemen - thanks very much - glad for the input on the Endure - was looking at it as a potential. Still torn - hear amazing things about the Garmin - but hope to have a boat with GPS one day - and I think that's gonna have to have Lowrance electronics on it.

Hmmm...

Further - what sucked about the Endura?

I use a garmin gpsmap 60cx on my atv and boat it is very rugged has been covered in mud and rain numerous times. Upgraded to a 2gb card and have topo Canada maps for Ontario and Quebec, city nav for ontario Quebec and eastern USA to Florida, Bluecharts and fishing hotspots for all ontario loaded on it and still have lots of memory. Would recommend this unit to anyone. The bluecharts for B of Q are very accurate.

I have the Expedition C with the gold navonics card and I love it...no complaints from me...easy to setup and use, can get mount kit for atv or sled for it...and the best thing is if you have a hummnbird or lowrance ff for the boat the screen and commands are almost identical...also have weather forecast compass mappig and trail tracking...amongst a bunch of other stuff...I dont have experience with others but I do like this one....

I have an Expedition C with the Gold card. Have not had a chance to try it on the open water yet. Will it plot a track at 1 mile per hour? My XOG used to average the tracks out so that you would only see one track and not say 3 passes at the red can. I returned it.

I find it very difficult to see the screen in daylight (Expedition C) and the viewing angle seems very limited. Does it sound like mine is too dark, or is this normal? Does anyone know? bayboy