[Boyce]

I ran North up for the first 2 years I had my boat because I didn’t know how to change the setting on the crappy Lowrance that came on my boat. It wasn’t until I upgraded my graph that I started running heading up.

I use heading up 90% of the time.

[Boyce]

For me, when you’re running north up, you’re constantly having to mentally convert what you’re seeing on the screen into the direction you actually need to steer. Depending on which direction you’re traveling, a turn that appears left on the screen might actually require turning right.

With heading up, what you see on the screen matches what’s directly ahead of your boat. If the bayou turns right, you turn right. There’s no mental conversion required.

North up definitely helps you maintain geographic awareness. But here’s my question: Before you even launch your boat, shouldn’t you already have a game plan? You should have studied the area, picked your fishing spots, and have a general understanding of where you’re going and where you’re at. Running heading up doesn’t suddenly make you lose your sense of direction or forget which side of an island you’re fishing.

To me, heading up removes an unnecessary mental conversion and allows me to concentrate on navigating the boat rather than interpreting the map. I’m not saying north up is wrong, but I don’t see the advantage of adding an extra mental step when there’s an option that eliminates it.

[Boyce]

What a day! Great report. 35 trout on that kind of tackle is bad ass.

[Boyce]

Beautiful trip

[Boyce]

Nice. Sounds like a great day out there in short order. Can’t beat that.

[Boyce]

Hell yeah. That’s a great day.

[Boyce]

Scratch that plan and go into the marsh. The wind is going to murder you.

[Boyce]

That wind ripping yet?

[Boyce]

Casual 5 pounder… no big deal

Exciting times ahead

[Boyce]

Things are looking promising. And LAFB already had a bang up weekend with all the awesome reports. It’s got me itching for sure.

[Boyce]

@Geremy you’re just a friggin angler bro. Always on them fish!!!!! Nice work!

[Boyce]

Tough day.

Your friends got a hell of a tour of the area at least.

[Boyce]

Hahaha that racetrac has saved the morning many a times

[Boyce]

Sounds like its time to let them know who the Captain of that boat is.

But why not launch at Pips at take the boat down to get some skrimps?

I’ve fell victim to fishing for my guests too. But they have better memories if you do whatever it takes to get them on fish.

[Boyce]

“Time is never on your side”

Man that’s the realest thing I’ve heard about Venice. Spot on lol.