Navionics Sonarcharts And River Systems

I just got home from the Red River down in Louisiana and what a rats nest that joint is. Million of stumps and shallow changing water have made that place almost impossible for mapping companies to chart.

Since Navionics introduced SonarCharts, now we are starting to get mapping even in the most treacherous stump fields of the Red River. Anglers who fish here are logging sonar while they fish and they're doing it in areas that are impossible for survey crews to get to.

I found having these maps were key cause on a River system that is so hard to move around on, the key is finding those small bottom transitions within the stump fields. The ability for me to utilize SonarCharts on my Lowrance was the difference in wasting time looking and hanging my boat up on every stumps and instead made my time much more efficient.

Navionics SonarCharts - http://www.navionics.com/en/sonarcharts

Heres a couple screenshots better explaining.