Thread: winter SI bait locating

Is your unit HDS gen 1 or newer

Great snapshots, Brett.....I see you are using your Lowrance. Did you sell the Garmin?

Originally Posted by gabowman

The DI images I understand. it's those SI that I have problems with.

You can always PM me if you need 1 on 1 ...

Rickie

Originally Posted by grantstricklin1984

Is your unit HDS gen 1 or newer

Gen 2

Originally Posted by Don G

Great snapshots, Brett.....I see you are using your Lowrance. Did you sell the Garmin?

No, still got the Garmin, guess I need to put it on ebay, If anyone wants it, I'll sell it for 400 less that I paid. Its more detailed than the Lowrance, I just use a touch and I'm sticking with it.

Originally Posted by brettw

"Float over them"
so you suggest dropping a buoy on them on the first pass?

Well....Since you don't have the 360........and neither do I.

If I suspect the boat is spooking them, I would very slowly approach the waypoint moving into the wind......pass over the waypoint, throw a marker off to one side, immediately kill the trolling motor and drift back off, then position the boat well away from the waypoint on the opposite side from the marker and cast a slip float with minnow upwind of the waypoint and let it drift across.

If you spook them on the initial run across the waypoint, they should return in a few minutes after you move back off.

If they are pretty aggressive, you could try casting a jig from a distance also and counting down just above the depth you saw them on the scan......or even use a jig on the slip float with some gulp or similar. I have had good success casting and using a jig under a slip bobber.

That's more than just bait! Definitely larger fish there.

My lake has perch, crappie, bass , cats, carp, no schooling white bass to speak of, sun fish, no stripes,
Do bass school up like this?