Chic navigation

[BrotherJim]

Going in a few weeks worried about navigating around the lake
appreciate any areas to avoid
dont want lose a lower unit
thanks in advance

[sdbrison]

Get a navionics map and stay in the channels

[BulletTJ]

Amen! There are some of big sand bars on that lake that I have ever seen. Bad thing is some of the creeks run parallel to the bank. You will see someone running 60 mph 10' from the bank. But to get to the river channel you will have to hug the bank for a couple of miles and then turn out to the river channel. You better be careful. The water is as low right now as I have ever seen it. We are expecting 8" of rain this coming week.

[richg99]

Navionics has a free online website with a lot of data. That said, it is a river/ lake and things move all of the time.

[Aries 181]

LakeMaster will save you a lot of heart ache on Chickamauga. I've seen more than a few beached on sand bars because they cut inside of a channel buoy. Makes for great entertainment watching them try to motor off them.

Bill

[Melton Jason]

I use the LakeMaster and it seems fairly accurate.

[HH45cal]

I use lakemaster in my h birds- I adjust depth contours to lake level, highlight areas of water that are shallow- I do at 5 feet or so, and it works great

[Wackyjig]

I use lakemaster in my h birds- I adjust depth contours to lake level, highlight areas of water that are shallow- I do at 5 feet or so, and it works great

Same here. If you can't adjust for lake level you're in for a bad time on chick. I don't know about the newer navionics cards but the one I have that's 3 years old is missing quite a bit compared to lakemaster

[4stroke]

For lake level offset and what I use on my Gen 3 Lowrances and Navionics I found the following online and it works well

1. Chart Page:
2. Menu
3. Chart Options
4. View
5. Depth Highlight
6. Set your lake drop amount in the MAX box
7. Set the MIN box to “0”

This shows a wide band blank white screen of the offset. If you want to highlight that with the shallow water dot grid….just go back to the shallow water box and set it to the same number as the MAX box.