My title should about say it all.

Sunday morning, pouring down rain off and on, there I am, out in the boat and practicing for a tournament in 2 weeks. Wasn't doing much fishing, more cruising around and marking cover on structure. If I saw something on the sonar I would fish it, if I got bit I would mark a waypoint.

Keep in mind I have been doing this style of fishing at this particular lake for 2 years, I had 50 waypoints, ALL offshore.

Pick up my handheld GPS to mark a waypoint. The screen has water on it. I gently shake it off, the friggin thing slipped out of my hand and BLOOP........in it went. I was in 14 feet of water, and in the middle of nowhere :'( :'( :'(

After punching myself in the head, I drove straight to the ramp, trailered the boat, drove straight to Gander Mountain which is an hour away, bought a new GPS.

Now I have to start all over again, that's the part that hurts. All those places I was catching fish, and not small ones either, nice fish, most over 3 lbs with 4's and 5's mixed in.

I'm gonna be sick again.........

Man, that sucks!

Man, that sucks!

x2!

Man that does suck. I'm just about to buy a new GPS/sonar combo and I'm gonna make sure that I take extra good care of mine.

Makes me feel better about accidentally kicking my new $80 LED blacklight in the lake on my second trip out with it last week.

Sorry to hear about your loss.

That is like having your computer crash.

Is there anyway you can backup the data on your GPS?  

I think I will ask Lowrance and find out.

Thanks for the story.

Oh man, that totally sucks for you!!!

I have a crapper depth finder that shows depth, hardly any fish and never will it pick up any type of structure. Need to get me something.

Our GPS is mounted to the dash.

I would have dove head first right in after it.

My former GPS which is now lying in it's final resting place had no memory card or way to back-up info.

My new GPS has the capability to back stuff up on computer. Most definately will be done.

I didn't dive right in because drowning my self over a $75 GPS would be plain dumb plus I was alone in the boat and the wind was blowing. If I went in pretty good chance my boat would have blown away.

This was a HANDHELD GPS, not a fixed mount. I have a fixed mount in my ProCraft, in my small lake boat I use the handheld.