Is their somewhere I can find maps to see depths and where weed beds lie in these lakes

There are maps from various companies with depth contours of selected lakes in the BWCA. I don't know of any that show weed beds or anything like that however.

i usually look at www.lake-link.com for when I ice fish here in Wisconsin and it shows depths, drop offs, if there's vegetati or stumps, if the floor is rock, sand, mud, etc, and coukdnt find anything of the sort for bwca

The DNR web page is the only place I know that shows the depths of most lakes. No idea about weed beds.

Navionics' website has their maps for free: http://webapp.navionics.com/

For even more detail, click the pull-out arrow button on the left of the screen, click "navionics +", close out that slide out menu, and then once the map loads click the round sonar button on the bottom left of the map screen.

This shows maps developed from crowdsourced sonar data that people upload to their company.

quote dhanson: "Navionics' website has their maps for free: http://webapp.navionics.com/


For even more detail, click the pull-out arrow button on the left of the screen, click "navionics +", close out that slide out menu, and then once the map loads click the round sonar button on the bottom left of the map screen.


This shows maps developed from crowdsourced sonar data that people upload to their company."

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