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Does anyone have a free navigation app they use that you can drop waypoints? I don’t really need it for actual navigation, as the reservoirs I’ll be fishing aren’t that big. But dropping waypoints on things like certain pieces of structure would be nice. 

I use my Navionics App. literally everyday.  I use it for planning my day on the water and while I'm on the water.  It has the Satellite overlay, depth shading, weather, tides, wind just to name a few.  I also use the HotMaps Navionics Card in my Lowrance unit.  Its a valuable tool for sure.  I'm not saying not to use as many tools as possible to make you more successful on the water but, this is one that has a ton of features that are valuable.  Attached is an example of the weather I checked this morning and depth shading which you can change.  #EscapeTheOrdinary

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On 12/18/2018 at 7:03 PM, Dens228 said:

I used Weatherbug until someone showed me Dark Sky..........you should take a look at it. 

Just a couple weeks with Dark Sky and I'm afraid that until it forecasts wind, even a little bit, I am going back to The Weather Channel, Accuweather or Weather Bug.  TWC took a big downward hit with their last big update, but it still does wind better than Dark Sky.    Any of the apps do temp forecasts and big precip events.  I really don't care much at all about rain on my fishing days....the Dark Sky to-the-minute rain prediction is cool, but doesn't help my fishing much.  But since I do most of my fishing from a kayak; some on pretty big water.....I mostly want to know about wind...today, tomorrow and next weekend.  I want to know wind speed to within a couple MPH and I want precision direction.  I want to know within 30 min when it is going from 5MPH to 10+.

If anyone has a weather app that does wind right, I'd love to hear about it.

16 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Just a couple weeks with Dark Sky and I'm afraid that until it forecasts wind, even a little bit, I am going back to The Weather Channel, Accuweather or Weather Bug.  TWC took a big downward hit with their last big update, but it still does wind better than Dark Sky.    Any of the apps do temp forecasts and big precip events.  I really don't care much at all about rain on my fishing days....the Dark Sky to-the-minute rain prediction is cool, but doesn't help my fishing much.  But since I do most of my fishing from a kayak; some on pretty big water.....I mostly want to know about wind...today, tomorrow and next weekend.  I want to know wind speed to within a couple MPH and I want precision direction.  I want to know within 30 min when it is going from 5MPH to 10+.

If anyone has a weather app that does wind right, I'd love to hear about it.

On the Dark Sky main page scroll down to where it says Time Machine........select that and you can get wind forecasts.

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1 hour ago, Dens228 said:

On the Dark Sky main page scroll down to where it says Time Machine........select that and you can get wind forecasts.

Thanks.  Even with your help I struggled a little on my Galaxy.... not all that intuitive....scrolling the orange line and then tapping each data category.....looks like good info, though....ty

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