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IMS Fishing Hot Spots®

Great Digital Mapping Products for Great Outdoors Adventures!

Like the original paper maps, the Fishing Hot Spots® electronic mapping cards are loaded with superbly-detailed hydrography for precision travel on your favorite inland fishing lakes. Your time on the water will be more enjoyable and more productive! Typically, the mapping data will tell you about the history of the lakes, provide helpful information on the fisheries, supply strategic fishing tips on how to catch big fish, as well as provide excellent shoreline detail and depth contour lines to help you find the drop-offs, humps and other key bottom structure.

Exclusive high-detail, plug-&-play, Fishing Hot Spots® electronic charts put you on the fish action every time with superb coverage of hundreds of America’s premium inland fishing lakes. Each of 9 different U.S. regional electronic charts preloaded onto digital media mapping cards (MMC/SD) typically cover from 3 to 5 states, with as many as 33 productive fishing lakes displayed. In addition to displaying depth contour lines and the hot fishing spots, select maps also include lake profiles, fishery data, fishing tips, marina/resort information, and nav aids…plus plug-&-play convenience, all at an amazingly low price!


Table Rock Lake example. Notice the depth contour lines,
 lake profile icon, fishery data icon, fishing tips icon, boat ramps,
 fishing area information icons, boat ramps, and marina icons.

Catalog of Fishing Hot Spots® Electronic Charts:

  1. FHS-1: (Contains a Total of 25 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Washington (13 lakes): Roosevelt,Moses, Banks, Sammamish, Riffe, Ozette, Tapps, Stevens, Newman, Roesiger, Silver, Terrell, & Goodwin.
    • Montana (5 lakes): Canyon Ferry, Flathead, Fresno, Elwell, & Bighorn.
    • Wyoming (3 lakes): Fontenelle, Jackson, & Yellowstone.
    • Idaho (4 lakes): Coeur D’Alene, Pend O’Reille, Cascade, & Bear (Utah border lake).
  2. FHS-2: (Contains a Total of 23 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Minnesota (9 lakes): Kabetogana, Pelican, Vermilion,Winnibigoshish, Cass/Pike Bay, Leech, Arrowhead,Mille Lacs, & Minnetonka.
    • Wisconsin (11 lakes): Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, Chippewa, Tomahawk, Green Bay S., Sturgeon Bay,Winnebago, Poygan, Castle Rock, Pewaukee, Geneva, & Fox Chain S. (Illinois border lake).
    • Nebraska (2 lakes): McConaughy, & Merritt.
    • South Dakota (1 lake): Oahe.
  3. FHS-3: (Contains a Total of 33 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Illinois (24 lakes): Fox Chain S., Rock River, Busse, Carlton, Shabbona, George, Kankakee River, Illinois River, La Salle, Clinton, Springfield, Sangchris, Otter, Shelbyville, Mill, Coffeen, Carlyle, Baldwin, Rend, Kinkaid, Crab Orchard, Cedar, Devil’s Kitchen, & Lake of Egypt.
    • Indiana (3 lakes): Brookville,Monroe, & Patoka.
    • Ohio (3 lakes): Lake Erie, Pymatuning, & Shenango (Pennsylvania border lake).
    • Michigan (3 lakes): Little Bay de Noc, Saginaw Bay, & Detroit River.
  4. FHS-4: (Contains a Total of 20 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • New York (8 lakes): Cayuga, Chautauqua, Seneca, George, Oneida, Black, Champlain, & St. Lawrence River.
    • Pennsylvania (8 lakes): Allegheny, Shenango, Arthur, Glendale, Marburg,Wallenpaupack, Raystown, & Pymatuning (Ohio border lake).
    • New Jersey (3 lakes): Hopatcong, Spruce Run, & Round Valley.
    • Connecticut (1 lake): Candlewood.
  5. FHS-5: (Contains a Total of 33 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Kentucky (9 lakes): Cave Run, Taylorsville, Nolin River, Green River, Cumberland, Barkley, Kentucky, Barren River, & Dale Hollow.
    • Virginia (4 lakes): Anna, Chesdin, Kerr, & Smith Mountain.
    • Tennessee (15 lakes): Reelfoot, Cherokee, Douglas, Boone, Old Hickory, Percy Priest, Center Hill,Woods, Tims Ford,Watts Bar, Chickamauga, Nickajack, Fort Loudon, Tellico, & Pickwick (Alabama/Mississippi border lake).
    • North Carolina (5 lakes): Gaston, Falls, Norman, B. Everett Jordan, & High Rock.
  6. FHS-6: (Contains a Total of 22 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Florida (9 lakes): Talquin, St. Johns River, Rodman, George, Harris Chain, Tohopekaliga, East Tohopekaliga, Kissimmee, & Okeechobee.
    • South Carolina (4 lakes): Greenwood, Murray, Marion, & Moultrie.
    • Georgia (4 lakes): Allatoona, Eufaula,West Point, & Nickajack (Tennessee border lake).
    • Alabama (3 lakes): Pickwick, Guntersville, & Wheeler.
    • Mississippi (2 lakes): Grenada, & Ross Barnett.
  7. FHS-7: (Contains a Total of 26 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Arkansas (6 lakes): Norfork, Beaver, Greers Ferry, Ouachita, Dardanelle, & Millwood.
    • Kansas (4 lakes): Milford, Perry, Melverne, & Clinton.
    • Missouri (9 lakes): Mark Twain, Smithville, Truman, Lake of the Ozarks, Pomme de Terre, Stockton,Wappapello, Table Rock, & Bull Shoals.
    • Oklahoma (7 lakes): Grand, Oolagah, Skiatook, Hudson, Fort Gibson, Tenkiller, & Texoma.
  8. FHS-8: (Contains a Total of 21 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • Texas (21 lakes): Meredith, Ray Roberts, Lake Fork, Possum Kingdom, Ray Hubbard, Palestine, Richland Chambers, Toledo Bend, O.H. Ivie, Sam
      Rayburn, Livingston, Conroe, Houston, Fayette County, Choke Canyon, Coleto Creek, Canyon, Medina, Tawakoni, Bob Sandlin/Montecello/Cypress Springs, & Texoma (Oklahoma border lake).
  9. FHS-9: (Contains a Total of 15 U.S. Regional Lakes)
    • California (11 lakes): Sonoma, Folsom, Millerton, Nacimiento, Cachuma, Castaic, Piru, Clear Lake (Lake County), Camanche, Casitas, & Isabella.
    • Nevada (1 lake): Mead.
    • Utah (3 lakes): Strawberry, Bear, & Starvation.

* The level of detail and categories of data can vary from one lake to another. Products, features, and specifications are the most recent available at the time of publication and are subject to change without notice.

Fishing Hot Spots® are compatible with the FishElite 480, IntelliMap 480, SeaCharter 480DF, and all 2005 or later units with SD/MMC card capability. Products may, however, require a free software upgrade.