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    Where can I go and see a map where I can hover over a spot and see the lat longs? I hear you guys talking about numbers but I am new to erie and cannot visualize where you are.

    Thanks

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    If you want to see the area from Geneva to Erie, NOAA Chart 14828 is the map you are looking for. If you need to know exactly where you are on the lake or where that guy is who is catching fish and sharing numbers, you need a good GPS-Sonar unit with a plotter screen. Problem solved.

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    NOAA Office of Coast Survey. Go to this website and you will find several charts. #14830 is the westend. You can also buy one of the Hot Spot charts and some numbers for gps such a bouys, lighthouses, reefs and channels will be listed. Look at how the Lat and Long numbers are on the chart. So if you hear that I am fishing at 48 and 00. Thats 48 north and 00 west, and thats a few miles due north of " C can". These are the middle numbers on GPS. You can also hear maybe 34 and 17. Is this for sure in the west end of the lake ? No, its actually north of Vermilion near the sandbar. The more you study a good chart and all the info and landmarks, the better the GPS numbers are to figure out a location.
    Capt. Greg Hoyt
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    If you have a smartphone, you can download the Navionics Mapping App. Check it out.

    I have this app on my iPhone and really like it.

    It's very user friendly too.

    http://www.navionics.com/en/marine-lakes-iphone

    Juls
    Captain Julia "Juls" Davis
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    Specializing in 1-3 person walleye and perch charters

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    This might be what your looking for, except when most of us are giving coordinates we are using degrees-and minutes where this chart is decimal degrees :example: the post might read was at 27.6 x 21.9 , which in the central basin would actually be 41 degrees 27.6 min x 82 degrees 21.9 minutes[most of us just use the minutes]
    To convert to decimal degrees take the minutes 27.6 and divide by 60 which would be .46 and 21.9 divided by 60=.365
    41 degrees 27.6 minutes = 41.46
    82 degrees 21.9 minutes =82.365

    in this case would be the Vermilion dumping grounds

    Cursor location is displayed on bottom of chart in decimal lat. long


    http://marina.geowake.com/map/index....fullscreenexit
    Captain Don M.
    B.G./Marblehead

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    Quote Originally Posted by smhamilt View Post
    Where can I go and see a map where I can hover over a spot and see the lat longs? I hear you guys talking about numbers but I am new to erie and cannot visualize where you are.

    Thanks
    If you still have questions please feel free to call me anytime and I will help you.. 614.327.7144. Thks


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