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Originally Posted by spicolly
It'd be kinda cool if you printed out an image, maybe from google maps/earth, and could attach these labels...then post it.
I hear Monkeyland goes off in the winter  |
This is a portion of a map available at Dana Landing. They look like laminated place mats for your dinner table, and they are hanging on hooks behind the sandwich concession for about $15. Lots of other good information on these maps.
My fish finder is a POS, so I use an app on my iphone as my GPS and chart plotter. It's called Navionics Boating. It tracks where I go and gives a summary of the speed, time, etc. Other views allow us to plot out our plan in advance and follow vectors to precisely the way points where we want to go. Government maps on the Navionics iphone app work good for free. For a small additional charge, you can get sonar depth maps that give us entirely different food for thought. There is other useful information on the Navionics Boating app.
If you use your smart phone, make sure you have a good waterproof cover. This one is cheap on Amazon and works for me:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ilpage_o01_s00
When I'm back home thinking over a fragrant glass of dry, full-bodied red wine, I make a screen shot of my fishing route for the day from the Navionics Boating App and overlay it on this map in Photoshop to see what territory I am covering and what I want to try to do on my next trip to try to improve. I zoom in on just my route and add my own notes, observations, visual reference points that I see with my own eyes for future dead reckoning, easy bait, places to explore next, etc., etc., etc. I snap visual notes with my Fuji XP80 waterproof sports camera that is always handy in the breast pocket of my PFD.
When people talk about fishing "west of the pier, outside the protected zone" ... I'm wondering if that means La Jolla Canyon Shelf, still on the south side of the canyon? When this yellowtail and tuna frenzy calms down, I'm still wanting to find where the local monster size halibut hang out. The sandy flats off Black's Beach seem to be off limits now, except for bait fish.
Monkeyland must be somewhere over the horizon.
