Building new boat and fishing around Muskokas and Kawarthas and a couple of places online that mention Navionics has far more detail for lakes like Buckhorn, Pigeon, Stoney. I plan on putting a Minn Kota Ultrex Quest on and heard it's best to pair with Humminbird but now with Navionics being Garmin I'm a bit lost with what setup I should go for now... Does navionics work with a humminbird and if so will I be losing a lot of functionality?

For my area, Navionics seems better for tidal water, but Lakemaster is good enough for local reservoirs.  I switch between the two.

 

The functionality you’ll lose is just follow the contour. But you can get around that by creating an iTrack which works as an overlay on Navionics. 
 

Everything else is just GPS based and will work, go to WP, go to SL, drift mode, iTracks.

9 hours ago, RipHair said:

Building new boat and fishing around Muskokas and Kawarthas and a couple of places online that mention Navionics has far more detail for lakes like Buckhorn, Pigeon, Stoney. I plan on putting a Minn Kota Ultrex Quest on and heard it's best to pair with Humminbird but now with Navionics being Garmin I'm a bit lost with what setup I should go for now... Does navionics work with a humminbird and if so will I be losing a lot of functionality?

It's my understanding that you can use Navionics with Humminbird units but you will loose some functions.  For example I don't think you can tell the trolling motor to follow a contour of a Navionics map.  That will on work with a Lakemaster map or an Autochart map.  You could always switch to the Lakemaster map if you want to use that function.

Garmin bought Navonics in 2017 and Garmin makes a version  LakeMaster to be compatible with HumminBird.

Tom 

Interesting to hear they have a lakemaster version. Was also considering mounting a waterproof tablet like Samsung active just for navionics+ Android app as well

3 hours ago, RipHair said:

Interesting to hear they have a lakemaster version. Was also considering mounting a waterproof tablet like Samsung active just for navionics+ Android app as well

Lakemaster is a Humminbird brand of maps,  not a version.  Navionics sells map chips that are compatible with Humminbirds.  You can also download the maps to your own chips.  

 

If you go with the tablet you can use Navonics and you can also purchase LakeMaster maps and use the Humminbird One Boat Network app to view them.  It's a cheaper way to get a larger screen for mapping.  The big downside is the tablet will not be able to share data with the other fish finders or the trolling motor.  

1 hour ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Navionics sells map chips that are compatible with Humminbirds.  You can also download the maps to your own chips.  

I found this chart which is helpful in determining unit compatibility. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. 

https://www8.garmin.com/navionics/PDF/GPS_Plotter_Cards_Compatibility_Guide.pdf