by freshwater do you mean 'saltwater' or 'brackish in the marsh' or did you mean Lake Fayette?

Navionics Platinum isn't a bad chip for the bays, it's mostly good general information. If you Fish flats or Marsh entirely and not the open bays there are some chips out there that have some really good aerials but less accurate topo, you might look at Standard Mapping https://www.standardmap.com/product-page/texas-west-classic

or Legends Cartography http://www.legendcartography.com/texas-coast.html

 

Yeah, I guess that wasn't as clear as I intended. Freshwater means freshwater lakes, which is why I went with the 93 over the 94. Especially since my 225 Opti gave up the ghost on my Ranger. In saltwater, we mostly fish open bays and flats, wade fishing or drifting. While the Explorer gets me where I want to go, it's certainly not an ultra skinny water type hull.

 

No additional advice from the brain trust of the Texas coast?

 

I am in Rockport and use the Navionics platinum chip. It works very well and has pretty good aerial photos. Sometimes the shots were taken with too much wind so no bottom view in those areas.

 

For the Lakes the Navionics will be fine. LakeMaster on Hummingbird is better but it only comes on the 'Bird now. Navionics is pretty close. They also have a packlaged deal for the Navionics "+" and the Lakes Hotmaps https://www.navionics.com/usa/charts?charts=NavionicsPlus

Im not sure how different their HotMaps are..Looks like the same type map

 

does Navionics let you upgrade your chip or do you need to buy a new one altogether?

 

Upgrade... I think they have a deal where if you have a different brand or out of date Navionics card you can upgrade.

Also you get 1 year of annual updates, then it's $99 to update it..

 

Upgrade... I think they have a deal where if you have a different brand or out of date Navionics card you can upgrade.

Also you get 1 year of annual updates, then it's $99 to update it..

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