How to subscribe to Genesis Edge, C-MAP’s premium mapping service

While you can’t make your own luck, you can chart your own success. For those with drive, there’s better maps — C-MAP Genesis maps. To catch more and bigger fish tomorrow, subscribe to Genesis Edge today.

Genesis Edge is a premium upgrade to the free marine-mapping service C-MAP Genesis (formerly known as Insight Genesis). While the free version allows downloads of community-sourced digital Social Map charts and custom-color depth shading, Genesis Edge offers even more. Its key features include sonar replay, the option to keep personally mapped areas private and creation of your own bottom-hardness and submerged-vegetation map layers. No matter where you fish, or what species you target, those features are game-changers.

This article includes instructions for subscribing to Genesis Edge, as well as more information about how you can use Genesis Edge features to catch more and bigger fish.

Note: The “Plans” page at www.genesismaps.com does not include a place to enter your credit card information and purchase a premium Genesis Edge subscription. To purchase an Edge subscription, you must first register for a free Genesis account, log in and then navigate to the bottom of the “Account” page in your Dashboard and click “Upgrade.” Full step-by-step directions follow. 

How to create and use a Genesis Edge vegetation map to catch more and bigger fish

Big gamefish ambush little baitfish in both submerged vegetation and along deep weed lines, neither of which are visible to the naked eye in most weather and water conditions. But with a Genesis Edge map, you can easily find and fish both deep weed lines and isolated submerged grass. This article will teach you how.

With a Genesis Edge account (formerly Insight Genesis premium), you can create a custom grass map that will overlay on your blue-scaled contour map easy-to-see green patches that show the size and shape of the areas of submerged grass/vegetation you mapped.*

Pro tip: Map all the spots you graph in tournament practice

When you graph potential hot spots in practice for a fishing tournament, you should also map them and waypoint every fish you catch and/or shake-off. Overlaying your waypoints on the Insight Genesis bottom-hardness and vegetation layers will help clue you in on a productive pattern and allow you to run that pattern faster and more precisely.

 

Insight Genesis is GoFree’s innovative software service that anglers use to make custom one-foot contour maps of un-mapped bodies of water, improve contour detail on previously mapped waters, and to find fish-holding bottom structure not charted on off-the shelf maps, including reefs and shoals, sunken islands and holes, humps and hard-bottom areas, drains and ditches. GoFree, Navico’s newest brand, offers digital marine maps, including Insight Genesis, Lake Insight HD, Lake Insight Pro and others.