Fish Like A Cajun: Using Garmin to Navigate the Louisiana Bayous
Last summer, we had the enviable task of joining Americana Outdoors show host Wade Middleton on a fishing trip to Grand Isle, Louisiana. To get to this sportsman’s paradise, you head south out of New Orleans and pretty much drive until you run out of land and hit the Gulf of Mexico. Among other species, the area is known for its world class redfish and tarpon fishing. It’s also known as a frequent target of Gulf hurricanes, having been decimated by Katrina, Rita, and most recently, Gustav, which blew through just a few weeks after we were there.
For our trip, the weather wasn’t nearly that bad, but it wasn’t very good, either. 30 mile-an-hour winds made for some rough offshore waters in our relatively small bay boat. After consulting our XM WX weather on our GPSMAP 5212 touchscreen chartplotter, we decided the smartest thing to do was go inland to calmer waters and fish the area’s massive expanse of bayous.
The gambit worked, and we were treated to some excellent fishing. But we couldn’t have done it without the eye-poppingly detailed BlueChart g2 marine cartography embedded in the unit and supplemented by a g2 Vision card. While the area’s frequent hurricanes have literally rearranged the area, our charts (shown above) were vital in navigating us through narrow canals and into productive ponds — not to mention getting us back to the marina at the end of the day.
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