The Power of One-Foot Contour Lines To Catch More Inshore Fish
- By: Luke Simonds
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You won’t believe the POWER of one-foot contour lines to catch more inshore fish!
We’re talking redfish, seatrout, snook, flounder, and more!
All from the convenience of your own home so you can maximize your time out on the water.
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The Power of One-Foot Contour Lines [VIDEO]
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One-Foot Contour Lines is a new layer in our Smart Fishing Spots app.
In no time, it has quickly become my go-to, most trusted feature to find more fish in my area.
Both quantity and quality fish.
Long story short, one-foot contour lines let us see deeper in the water in areas we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
Most notably in areas with murky water.
This is a GAME-CHANGER.
It takes the guesswork out of everything.
You can follow where the fish want to go based on seasonal trends.
This feature makes it incredibly simple to analyze an area to dial into the 90/10 Fishing Zone.
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Are these contour lines representative of high tides?
The depth numbers in this should only be used for seeing relative changes. For actual depths, use the Marine Chart layer which uses the normal low tide as its base.
I used the One-Foot Contours at Lake Toho last week in Kissimmee. It made a great difference, since the Lake water level had been lowered, and weeds were covering all of the shallow areas. I am glad that it is also on some freshwater lakes.
Glad to see that you enjoyed this layer for fishing in Kissimmee!
After watching this video yesterday and seeing the benefit of the 1 foot contour line, I immediately signed up to become a member so I could access this app It will indeed be a game changer in many situations. Thanks for making this helpful tool available. Paul
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I’ve read contour lines from various apps for years and unless I’m somehow reading these very wrong, they are way off for my fishing areas which is the lower Laguna Madre around South Padre island. They show water depths of 5 to 15 feet of water where the water is more like 1 to 3 feet max depending on tide status. Not sure why such a difference, but this seems to be an issue.
I can’t post a picture of what I am talking about but would be glad to do so if I could. Thanks.
by the way…. Love the app and all the work you guys do, please don’t get me wrong that I don’t think what you guys are doing is fantastic and far better than i could have ever experienced or expected. Love you work guys and will continue to be a life time member. thanks!!!!
The depths for this layer are based from NOAAs Digital Elevation Models (DEM) which is like a grayscale sonogram of the ocean floor, so there are course can be some discrepancies. So it’s best to not use these depths for navigation… just use it to identify spots that have a unique looking depth contour that’s worth checking for fish.
Very exciting and excellent tips very much appreciated mike justice
Glad to see that you enjoyed this lesson!
Luke, I see your point on the deepest docks. But how do you select targeting deeper water spots from shallow spots with nearly identical depths like found around many mangrove areas. Not talking about cold and hot weather when fish move to deeper water. Just average days when you and the coaches are fishing and catching fish in the shallows with no attempt to fish deep water or docks. Are you saying to target the deepest mangrove points? I’m guessing but I think you may be saying to select spots based on finding structure of any kind that’s nearest to the deepest water. By example, grass flats with 4 ft. of water should be better than in 2 ft. depths, and even better if having a deep hole. Clearly more opportunities to create more teaching lessons.
Given this GAME CHANGING technology, why not create a contour depth spot identifier which would use algorithms to focus on the optimum conditions, and then create the equivalent of a smart spot for them? These pre-game changers are seemingly not reflecting what you now believe are better spots.
Great questions Rob! Given that we are in the Spring season, it’s not nearly as important to focus on the deepest structure like it is in the winter and summer months. I still find it very helpful to know which specific zones of an area have deeper/shallower pockets of water so that I can be sure to check them out when looking for life given that sometimes the fish simply prefer holding in a certain depth. And when fishing low tide, I really like knowing exactly which spots are deepest in an area because most of the fish will naturally shift there as the water falls.
As for the contour depth smart spot algorithm, that is something we hope to be able to do at some point in the future… it’s super complex, so it’ll certainly take a lot of time if it’s even possible to make accurate. In the meantime, the manual way is easy after some practice.
Very nice!
Thanks John!
To make sure I’m reading the contours correctly, every line represents an additional 1’ of water? So a spot on the map w/ 6 lines equals 6 feet deep?
From what I can see when the map was zoomed in in the video, every line represents 0.5ft
The 0.5 ft lines are only for the very shallow water.
Not exactly… the shallower zones actually have a 6″ contour line, so it’s best to use the numerical values on the line to see what the estimated depth is vs. counting the lines.
Nicely done, better resolution than my Navionics map. But are these maps downloadable so that I can use them offline?
These maps are not yet downloadable… we’re working on making that possible though.