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Old August 2nd, 2005, 01:30 PM
Joe Haubenreich
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I don't guess you'd want to take your laptop out on the boat, would you? If
so, you could just connect the two and use the entire laptop screen map. Doc
Pentheney has a gizmo he hooks into his USB port. Its a little GPS module
with an antenna cord that he lays on the dashboard, and he just drives along
with his laptop open on the passenger seat. It tracks him all the way on his
big screen... even has a female voice that alerts him before he reaches an
intersection where he needs to make a turn.

Maybe you could set it up so this female voice says, "cast just toward that
cedar tree... there's a submerged brush pile about fifty feet from you in
that direction." Wouldn't that be useful?

Joe
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I bought a small handheld GPS unit earlier this year, when the fish started
moving deeper, I began marking anything I got hung up on out in open water,
well it has paid off. I'm catching fish and eliminating a lot of useless
water( I think) the problem is with the 3 lakes I fish, my GPS map looks
like a sprinkeled donut from an ariel view, dots everywhere. Any good
handhelds with larger screens? I am currently using a Garmin E-trex