After turning on the Quickdraw feature of their Garmin EchoMAP DV, however, the map now showed every hump, ledge, and finger in the area with detailed 1-foot contours. The screenshot below paints a perfect picture of what a once-barren area can look like after a little bit of charting The same area as shown before and after charting it with Garmin QuickdrawĪs you can see in the screenshots, the map of the uncharted Buck Lake started as… well, just that – a blank, uncharted map. As Pete laid out in his article a few years ago, Quickdraw can completely transform the details your fishfinder can give you and can turn an intimidating body of water into something much more inviting.
Before we get to the why, we must first start with the how.