Let's google the internet and could not find a contour map for Roaches Run lake. So, time to do our own contour map for fishing. Follow alone to see how we do it.
First stepWe need to invest money to buy a contour map drawing Fishfinder. Thanks to many companies who make the lake contour drawing tools available for free as long as you buy their fishfinder. It used to be a royal pain in the butt to do this. We found it out after we bought our first Raymarine fishfinder - a nice 7 inches Dragfly 7 (no wifi - should have bought that feature so we can view it from anywhere in our boat instead of just sitting down from the boat console).
Watch our review video and amazing sonar images that we captured using this powerful and easy to use Raymarine Dragonfly 7" fishfinder with down vision technology -
Step 2. Awesome FREE tools to draw contour map for your own favorite body of water - Roaches Run for me. We will start with these:
Option 1. Garmin Quickdraw Contours - it is easy to use. Don't need to upload sonar chart to any websites like the Navionics. It instantly creates your own personalized HD fishing maps with 1 foot contours on screen for Echomap series fishfinder.
Option 2. Humminbird AutoChart Live - It creates detailed maps of your favorite fishing spots in real-time with Humminbird®'s patent pending AutoChart® Live, a free feature available with ONIX and HELIX 9, 10 & 12 Series fishfinder.
Both tools create contour map instantly on their fishfinders without uploading sonar logs to their websites nor waiting for them to process. Contour maps are instantly created. Kudos to both Humminbird and Garmin for making these tools free to fishermen like us.
Option 3.
Navionics Sonarchart Live in smartphone apps (Boating app). You can create your own Contour map a.k.a. Bathymetry mapright on your smart phones or mobile device as long as your fishfinder sonar is connected wirelessly to your smart phones or mobile device. It will create Bathymetry map instantly. No need to upload for processing no need to share and you can keep your own fishing spots private just like the first 2 options.
Option 4. Insight Genesis works with Lowrance Simrad B&G and even your own PC
This tool is cloud based processing and storage to create your own contour map
This is an old marketing technology and NOT totally free. You also have to share your private fishing spots so not the best option for Contour map drawing to create your own contour map. Not a good option, that is why we listed it as the last option.
If need more information, here are the links:
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