From us old guys that used to find them the hard way and use triangulation to get back on em, this is killer. Been using it for years ever since I found out about google earth. Gentlemen watching Edwin has given you the juice. If you can't use this and improve your fishing, take up golf. Thanks Edward for helping everyone, your old buddy from the Bass Pro Shop store opening in Georgetown, TX. Keep hammering them, love what your doing!
When we only had maps, I enlarged the entire map of our tournament lake. Two of us studied the map for weeks and found two unique humps. My friend went to the nearest one from launch. I couldn't get my boater to go to the other one. My friend's boat weight was almost 40 lbs off the one spot. The other spot remained untouched. Summer night tournament. Second place was three fish. Thank you for sharing this, I love it, and love spending time at home researching. Very awesome...
I’m from central Illinois and have watched and followed you fish tournaments for years. This info you shared will save me hours of transferring written gps coordinates to my Carbon!! Kant tell you how much I appreciate you sharing this knowledge!!!
Spent 4 hours last night doing this after watching your two videos. Thank you so much for the tip. I’m anxious to get on the water and try all the spots I marked. You are the man! Thank you.
Bringing tech into fishing with the computerized units we have available makes so much sense. No more running down a lake with a map blowing in your face. Increased excitement because the high definition units make the marked spots leap out. One still has to catch the fish. I was on Pool 8 MS River 2 weeks after the FLW. Found a few great spots but using your suggestions certainly eliminates dead water. That pool was 6-12 inches lower than a few weeks earlier. Can save a lower unit too! Think about using any of 7-8-9 pools. Great videos.
I’ve been doing this for a couple of years and thought I was getting pretty good. Watching your knowledge has humbled me to see that I have so much to learn. I don’t know if you would want to do a lake that might give away a competitive advantage, but Falls lake in N.C would be interesting. There are some very good drawn down photos of it. Thanks.
I felt the same way when you posted the first google earth video. I use it A LOT for finding hidden ponds. Im glad to be a part of your channel. Thank you for taking the time to read and respond. You are a very respected and inspiration angler to me. Google earth is amazing. If it was not for google earth, I would of never found the best place, and that os saying a lot to fish. Eventually one day I'll actually update and and make some videos from here on summer time fishing on Hartwell.
This is a game changer. This is how you become a champion, but thinking outside the box lock Edwin. I’m going to take this knowledge and put it to work on my home Lake and see what happens. I’ll probably spend 3 or 4 hours making waypoints. Thank you Edwin!
Awesome series! My first Marine Corps duty station will be Fort Worth beginning in January. Cant wait to explore Ray Roberts and all the incredible fisheries Texas has to offer
My vote is for Cherokee Lake in East TN. That would be a really good one as they draw it down every fall and then fill it back up in spring. Love the channel!!!
Been waiting for the rest of this Google series. I've known to look up lakes on Google but the way points and transferring is new to me. Thanks! I'll be saving this one too! And I'd like to see you break down Lake Tenkiller. So many deep areas off of main lake points, i get overwhelmed. Or maybe Lake Hudson in Oklahoma. Or both. Lol
Edwin, thanks again for caring for others who love to go bass fishing. I have already been spending time on Google earth looking for areas to catch fish. I talked to you about getting my boat in so I can get back on the water and I thank you for the information. Hopefully I can do that in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime I will be looking for way places to put way points. Eucha is a lake about 45 minutes the house. I would like it if you could Google earth that lake. It's not a big lake but I'm sure you have fished it. Thanks again Edwin. 🎣🐟
Thanks for the new obsession, E! Loved these and the jet boat trip with Ott. I’d love to see you breakdown John H. Kerr Reservoir aka Buggs Island on the NC/VA border. About 80-90 miles north of Jordan and Harris in Raleighwood!
Edwin I would really like to see more for Sam Rayburn and also how you would actually fish those spots accurately with the use of markers or what? Thanks for the video..really helpful.
Anther great video! I’m in East Tennessee where BASS, MLF, and all pro tours stop at Chickamauga lake... but not many talk about Watts Bar Lake just up river. It’s a huge lake with deep ledges, trees, current, rocks... whole 9 yards. I feel lost on it though. Would love to see you break it down.
Thank you very much for making this video. This is very generous of you to share with us. I did exactly what you taught us and imported it to my Lowrance HDS Live. It worked just as you said it would. What an awesome tool! Best of luck this year!
@@EdwinEversfishing it definitely does. Going to have to rewatch a few times with Google pro pulled up, might have sunk in better if I didn't watch it st 4AM while working haha. Thank you Edwin, always rooting for you. Hope you and your family are safe and doing well, you've earned a well deserved break!
Always giving out juice.. man ur info helps me out big time. Funny thing is, I saw that u used google maps and I couldn’t figure out how to go through the timeline of maps through out the years😂. Thx again
Hey Edwin, another great. I am really enjoying these break down videos. I have watched yours and a few other anglers. One thing I have noticed is the breakdowns usually happen on a reservoir or a lake that has a river system running through. As someone who lives in central Florida I would love to see how you prepare and break down one of our chain of lakes as I’m sure it’s a much different breakdown. Either the Kissimmee chain or the Harris chain. Things you look for, what you might target, which lake in the chain you would spend most of your time in, etc..I sincerely enjoy the knowledge you provide in these videos and I really appreciate you taking the time to make them.
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing the information. I would really like to see you breakdown my home lake. Barren River Lake in Glasgow Kentucky. Thanks again for sharing your wealth of knowledge..
Awesome! I get all caught up studying cattle sale catalogs for Black Angus. Now I'm a google earth pro junkie. Made the drive out to Eakly Oklahoma a couple springs back to look at cattle. Back to fishing, I'm trying to learn a beast called Lake Hartwell. Any help is appreciated. Thanks for sharing such useful information. Best of luck this fall with the pecan harvest. Hoping we have a great season here. Take care, safe travels and thanks again.
Man this was awesome! I started doing this on a lake nearby and couldn’t stop! My home lake is Ross Barnett Reservoir in MS. Give that one a go Edwin 👌🏻
Would Love a breakdown of Summersville Lake in West Virginia. It is primarily a smallmouth fishery but there are some nice largemouth that are caught in the spring. In the winter, they drop the water 100 feet or more. Thanks. Keep up the great work!
thanks for the tips, but mostly thanks for turning me on to google earth pro this will help with my job a lot. no worries I don't fish for a living yet ;)
Thanks Edwin! I finally got goggle earth Pro to work on my iMac. It took awhile but I'm on it now. We met in Erie a few years ago and you fished the "dumping grounds".
Great vid Edwin, I learned this from a crappie pro a while back but not the "how To". To the Hummingbird Helix guys you must download humminbirdpc and convert your .gpx file before you try to load your SD card. Also use a 32Gig or lower card(ask me how I know), now subscribed. would love to see Lake Tawakoni. Tough lake for me 2014 was 10 feet low
Clearlake, Ca. I just had two big tournaments there and it was hard to utilize this technique because the changes in water level there do not fluctuate very much. Would really be interested to see how you’d break it down differently than I using Google Earth. I ended up watching a lot of old Bassmaster Series video on YT from 2003 and 2007 to piece together known landmarks when building my fishing plan. I will say using google did however help with seeing the differences in water clarity which is one aspect of using google earth you had mentioned. So I was able to see some outside and inside weedlines as well as when the algae bloom hits the lake and how it affects different parts of the lake in certain seasons. I think with Clearlake, Ca being arguably one of the Top 5 lakes in the nation, it would be cool to see you break down a lake here in the West Coast for some of us Cali boys. Tight lines Sir and best to you and the fam. 🇺🇸🎣🤙🏽
On lakes that don’t fluctuate that’s what I have to do look- for grass lines, points, guts and ditches. I’ve also seen rock piles and brush piles if the lake is clear enough.
Spruce run in New Jersey, I have a tournament there this weekend and I’ve taken all your info and I can wait to see how it works this weekend. I would love to see how you would break this lake down, thank you for this incredible video! 👍
I would love to see you go over rough river lake or barren lake in kentucky. I've fished all over the country but they are still a couple of my favorite places to fish.
I’m from northwest Oklahoma so my fishing spots are few and far between. One of my favorite lakes is very small and just across the border into Kansas. Clark count fishing lake is small but full of big bass!! The lake got drained to about half it’s normal size last year for damn work. If you get a chance check it out. Thanks for all the information! I know it will come in handy!!
Edwin this has been sooo helpful!!! I can't tell u enuff how much I appreciate u doing these videos and showing your followers how to find fish using Google Earth. I've used it before but I didn't know u could use it to this extent do again thank u!!! I have 2 local lakes that I fish alot of BFLS on and I've been trying to have success on them lake Sinclair and oconee in middle GA, so if u could break down one of these lakes of your choice it would be much help, thank u and GOD BLESS!!
I would love to see you break down Lake Dardanelle. Specifically how you would find shell beds. I know it doesn't fluctuate as much, so shoreline cover isn't exposed so well.
Great video Edwin. I followed your directions exactly but when I put my SD card into my Humminbird Helix units nothing happened. Is there a different process for Humminbirds?
Thanks for the tips. I just installed my HDS Live 9 and 12 in my Nitro. Now time to use this information to help my game. One lake i struggle with is Ross Barnett Reservoir in Jackson MS. I tend to stay up river cause i don't know how to fish that big of a body of water. Maybe one day you could help with that.
I would love to see a video using this method on the coosa river. particularly lake Jordan. you and the other elites fished here back in 2011 as a two part championship. lets go find some gi gi gi gi gi giant spots.