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March 24th, 2004, 09:34 PM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
Hot Spot maps are okay but the thing to remember is that is everybody has that information the chances that they are not over fished is slim. As always to have the best spots takes some personal exploration. The environment changes as well so what was hot one year may not be the next. That is where your GPS comes in. I have spots marked where I have caught fish and returning to those waypoints has been productive. I also mark holes and cuts at low tide in the flats for later opportunities. I am pretty sure that Fishing Hot Spots is simply the brand name of the map company that puts them out. I have several "Hot Spots" maps of local lakes and it shows a good map of the lake, any underwater features that are known about, and that's it. They don't list actual "fishing" hot spots to my knowledge. The best maps of my local lakes that I have are aerial photo maps. The photos were taken from high alitutude planes, after the timbering, prior to the lakes' initial floodings. Works great, shows the actual road beads, railroad beds, holes, places where grass/weeds did grow, where they didn't grow, and so on. Any of these maps work in conjunction with a GPS unit, especially when one uses waypoints to find their way back to their own personal hot spots. 
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March 24th, 2004, 03:42 AM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in message ... ":-:NeWcS:-:" wrote in message hlink.net... What i'd like to do is take my GPS unit with me when fishing and when I catch a fish mark it on my GPS. Id then like to use a program that will pinpoint on a map where the fish was cought so I keep track of where on the lake the fish was cought. Is there a program to do this or something like im looking for??? I think a lot depends on what GPS unit you have. If you can interface your gps to your computer, and it's a mapping type unit, you should be able to do that. Of course, I could be wrong... -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com Even if it is neither, you can still read off the GPS coordinates and plot them on a map. Bill
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March 24th, 2004, 09:48 AM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
Bill
That is the most sensible (and inexpensive) advice I have seen given for a long time - well done Mick "Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net... "Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in message ... ":-:NeWcS:-:" wrote in message hlink.net... What i'd like to do is take my GPS unit with me when fishing and when I catch a fish mark it on my GPS. Id then like to use a program that will pinpoint on a map where the fish was cought so I keep track of where on the lake the fish was cought. Is there a program to do this or something like im looking for??? I think a lot depends on what GPS unit you have. If you can interface your gps to your computer, and it's a mapping type unit, you should be able to do that. Of course, I could be wrong... -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com Even if it is neither, you can still read off the GPS coordinates and plot them on a map. Bill
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March 24th, 2004, 11:00 AM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
"Calif Bill" wrote in message SNIP Even if it is neither, you can still read off the GPS coordinates and plot them on a map. Bill This is true, but I got the impression that he wanted to download the waypoints to some mapping software. -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com
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March 24th, 2004, 01:51 PM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in
message ... "Calif Bill" wrote in message SNIP Even if it is neither, you can still read off the GPS coordinates and plot them on a map. Bill This is true, but I got the impression that he wanted to download the waypoints to some mapping software. My garmin 176 and 168 both do that very easily witht he Garmin mapping software. -- Public Fishing Forums Fishing Link Index www.YumaBassMan.com webmaster at YumaBsssMan dot com
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March 24th, 2004, 02:38 PM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
Even if it is neither, you can still read off the GPS coordinates and plot them on a map. Bill That is exactly what I want to do... -Jay
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March 25th, 2004, 12:26 AM
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Using GPS to mark where I cought fish....HOW?????
"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in message ... "Calif Bill" wrote in message SNIP Even if it is neither, you can still read off the GPS coordinates and plot them on a map. Bill This is true, but I got the impression that he wanted to download the waypoints to some mapping software. -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com You can enter them on different mapping programs. My Garmin 45 can interface to a computer, but I never did it. My Garmin 160 plotter, has the RS232 I/F built in. On either you can go to the track page and read the lat / lon off and use them however you want. Bill
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March 25th, 2004, 09:33 AM
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