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Great question.
Navionics is not a map that was painstakingly put together by a cartographer who has been to Louisiana and genuinely cares deeply about your ability to navigate the marsh, much less your fishing trip.
Most maps are compiled from previous data, which is usually sweepingly broad and vague with very little actual detail outside of provided ATONs and known data. Nobody from Navionics is going out there to look to be sure. Instead they’ll just slap a “user beware” warning on their product in tiny text and then market the hell out of it to get you to part with your hard-earned dollars.
This is why satellite (or aerial) imagery is such a big deal: all those details that couldn’t be captured are now mostly captured (and it’s free).
I like to use Navionics web app for its Sonar Chart feature. I cover this inside 101 and the Fishing Trip Resources. I spent more time than anybody in the history of inshore fishing typing that stuff out in a rough draft, reviewing it, editing it, final drafting it, putting it on a teleprompter, filming it, editing it, watching it again just to be sure before finally uploading (and then doing the same thing for the lesson and course framework). So please forgive me if I’m not jumping up and down to re-do all that all over again here in this forum. lol
I really recommend looking at these videos:
Examples of Planning Real Fishing Trips
Those all cover my take on Navionics to some level of detail: that it is only a tool in the toolbox to use with your other tools in the toolbox (such as GED).
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