Hi guys,

Question about the Garmin Striker 4.

Last year, we went to Snowbank Lake near Ely. We rented a camp boat with 25 H.P. motor and I brought my Striker 4 in order to do contour mapping of some of the reefs in the BWCA area of the lake (near the 3 sisters islands).

The Quickdraw mapping feature (similar to Humminbird's AutoChart Live) worked absolutely great WHILE WE WERE ACTUALLY OUT ON THE WATER, but now I'm not on Snowbank.

Now I am home in Madison (over 350 straight line miles away from Snowbank), and I want to review the contour maps / data that I created while using the Quickdraw feature.

How do I do access this information or find these contour lines?

I don't believe there is a way to save something and give it a file name, so that you can open the file later even when you're back at home.

Do I actually need to go to Snowbank and be out on the water, in the exact same spots that I mapped last year, in order to view that information again?

I'm thinking there has to be some way to view previously created Snowbank Lake contour maps even when you're 350 miles away from Snowbank.

Otherwise, what's the point of creating the map in the first place if you can't review it later?

Am I missing something?

How do I access this information?

Note: There is no SD card slot in the Striker 4 unit itself, so I'm assuming any maps that are saved must be saved to the internal memory of the unit.

The best that I can come up with is to go to the "User Data" menu and look at each waypoint in the area one at a time. And then if I go to the second page for each waypoint, I can (sort of) zoom in on the waypoint and view my previous trolling pass routes through the area as well as what appears to be some of the contour lines.

But I'm thinking there should be some way to do something like save your data with a filename in order to easily retrieve it for reviewing and / or printing off a paper copy of the Quickdraw map at a later time.

Does anybody here have any experience with using the Striker 4 Quickdraw feature and/or accessing the Quickdraw info after the fact (i.e. when you're no longer out there on the water)? Any YouTube instructional videos that you found helpful?

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide

"Jackpot" John Schroeder

You can scroll on a garmin device to the location previously mapped, or use the ActiveCaptain app to move your contribution to the Quickdraw Community (and then view it on your phone via the app).

Sorry, i see the striker 4 isn't wifi compatible so the ActiveCaptain option isn't available.

If you go to the Navionics web app and select the Sonar Charts tab, you can look at Garmin community derived contour maps, so maybe worthwhile for your planning.

Navionics web app