Navionics Platinum
 

Any body have any experience with the NAVIONICS PLATINUM SOUTH cards...Are they worth it...Any experience suggestions would be appreciated...thanks in advance..Fishing Big Lake, Prien, Sabine, etc...around the lake area of calcasieu...chris.:);)

Chris, If you want to come by the house and look at it I have it in my 798c SI. I can show you everything you want to see. I also have it on my phone.

Mr. Paul I appreciate it...Think ill take you up on that....I live on N. Perkins by Beauregard Elec....Just let me know when, Im on vacation this week well watching kids week...LOL while the wife works so really any time is good for me...just pm if ya want thanks chris.:)

Right down the street from you. The boat should be back in the yard tomorrow evening. I'll send you a PM when it gets back. I live between the 5 Star and you, about half way on the West side of North Perkins Ferry Rd.

Aight,,,thanks ive prolly passed it a gazilllion times...lol.

Yep, We built that house that started right before RITA came through and ended up taking us 19 months to get it done. Remember that house?

Is it the first one into that newer subd..on the west side..against N. Perk..with the brick fence..with balc....also does anyone around here sell that platinum card.

yes and yes

I think thats the Dogets that live next door...I did find out who sold em, Im gonna come check yours out which one do you have I see they have platinum plus and platinum charts....dunno..lol.

Yall have your house for sale dont you

Where u live weedeater....

Yes, time to build another one!

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They used to live next door and I'll have to look at the card to see which one it is.

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hey paul,... a buddy of mine has the platnium card in his 898si and there are huge chunks of toledo bend missing.. like almost the whole mouth of six mile is blacked out... just a grey square over the area. have you experienced anything like that at all? :confused:

other than that, they're great!

What subdivision are you in Paul?

Me too
 

I have big parts of the Bend missing also. Mine is pretty much useless on Big Lake. But, I think mine is a 2009 issue. I was told the 2010 or 11 would have Big Lake on it.

I do love the chip. My Lake Insight on my Lowrance shows the road beds on Toledo where the Navionice does not.

Sleepy Hollow

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TOLEDO BEND does have issues but if you look at the outline of the South Region chip you can see that it is not really good for the lake at all. Doesn't make since but that's the way it shows on their website. Now on Big Lake the chip is great. I got my chip late last summer. I'll have to look and see what year/version it is.

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Man my aunt and unlce live in there Tina and Bartley Bourgeois

I guess there's no hiding from you now. ;)

We're the first house on the left when you turn in. The used car lot looking house. :D

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HAHA know right were you at!

Moss Bluff Speedway, Tomahawk on the south side with the woods on both sides

Man I might be able to throw a rock at ya...on tomawk....speedway wheres that...lol..not sure.

The road that runs from N. Perkin to Park

I think we got you beat there! :eek:

We've had 5 cars in our ditch since we built this house. All have been single car/truck accidents. But in their defense, there is only a 4" shoulder then down 4 feet. If you get off at all, you're in trouble.

I might have weedeater beat I had one hit my mail box one night put up a new one hit it the next, one in the front ditch and one hit tel. pole, and the last dwi flew into the east ditch and said he hit a racoon, I went out there at like 2am, had a fire buddy working it and there was no racoon anywheres....lol...crazy people think this is the qualifier for the DAYTONA 500...lol...You get the boat home MR. P.

Weedeater saw a fox run into those woods one morning picking up a buddy that lives at the west end of tomahawk...big one too...

Not yet, will be after 6, Blake has it. He went fishing this AM.

That DWI was by your house? That was some funny stuff on the news. Hahaha

Yea, they all seem to happen by me...lol..Im way off the road so they have to get through those BIG DITCHES..lol.:eek:

well not alot of wrecks but they like to fly; cops, school buses, parents goin to get school kids and high school kids doin over 60 down the road and then the ones that drive through the ditches.

I have alot of fox behind my house, your buddy must live real close to me. I think there is 4 houses on the south side west end then the woods and I am the only house with woods on botth sides

hes on the north side had his house for sale with centur 21, took it down...has a tan siverado and wifes escalade...

Sounds like my road....speed limit is 35 with no stop signs for almost a mile. Some people easily hit 70 mph....idiots. Had two morons that work for a car lot right up the road decide they would do a lil race in customers cars. One ended up going in the ditch and coming up the other side getting enough air to hit the power pole 10 foot up the pole and land on the roof! It is pretty safe to say he got fired....

He has a silver flat bottom boat, I know the house

thats it..

I've got the Navionics chip in my Humminbird 786ci. I love it. I don't think it is completely necessary for Big Lake, but it sure makes my GPS display purdy. I have benefitted from it though and I recommend it to anyone who is willing to pay the price tag for it. It is very accurate and helps with navigation moreso than fishing, but I was surprised to find a couple new fishing holes with it. Pretty cool little chip. Has great detail for the inland bays and waterways along the gulf coast.

My lowrance in the Triton doesnt have as much detail as my garmin did. Will this chip give me better detail of the marsh? If not do the new HDS units have better detail of the marsh? I thought about just installing the garmin in the new boat but that is alot of trouble... Somebody :help:

I had the Nav P+ chip in my HDS 10 - fantastic combo!
Extremely clear 'google earth' marsh detail was what did it for me v other brands.
I have the same chip in a Raymarine C90W (was on the boat when I got it) and it is not as clearly detailed on the google earth images as the HDS 10.

Next time your down here I have 2 different Navionics chips you can try. Just let me know when you come around.

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The Navionics chip is going to give you more detail than most, if not all of the base maps of any brand GPS unit you buy (I can't speak for the HDS series though bc I haven't gotten to play around with one too much yet). Some units are more capable than others and provide more detail when used in conjunction with the chip. I haven't been on the water with any Google Earth maps, but that sounds pretty cool. I have been very pleased with the accuracy of the Navionics chip in my 786ci though.